The silence is deafening. Last week, the New York Times reported a horrifying measure of America’s shame. Life expectancy for white wome…
The GOP lowers expectations for the presidency and plays voters for fools
Halfway through the Presidential debate on Wednesday night, I remembered the show where Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges played Arnold and Willis Jackson.
The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire and demand for freedom.
The Chicago teachers strike has gotten national attention, much of it presuming that the biggest issues are pay and evaluation. But the Ch…
Our Constitution offers us “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, but we can’t pursue anything if we are unhealthy.
Nearly 50 million Americans now are in poverty. One in four children will grow up in impoverished households. Redressing poverty is a nati…
In the midst of the thick fog and fantasy of this imaginary post-racial era, it might seem racially outrageous and socially scandalous…
Mrs. Dot Turner has worked at what is now Sensata Technologies in Downstate Freeport for 43 years. The company does sophisticated work creating sensors for automobiles. It enjoyed record profits last year. But not enough for its owner — Bain Capital — which is moving the jobs and the machinery to China.