Excerpts From Reverend Al Sharpton’s Address 57 years ago in 1963, there was a struggle in Birmingham, Alabama. There was the assassination of Medgar Evers, the head of the Mississippi NAACP. In the middle of struggle and murder, they came to Washington to demand that the Federal government give them a civil rights act and […]Read More
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, and Co-Founder of The National Action Network Our Time Press has followed the work of the National Action Network, founded by The Rev. Al Sharpton, for more than 20 years, and we have observed the contributions of NAN’s co-founder and legal counsellor Attorney Michael A. Hardy, Esq. for just […]Read More
Intergenerational Leaders Focus Conversations on Injustice in America, Voter Suppression, Voting Power … and Next Steps “The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” organized by The Rev. Al Sharpton (in photo, inset, left), Founder & President, the National Action Network, (NAN), and attended by thousands on Friday, August 28, 2020, commemorated the 57th […]Read More
By Ryan Brooks As a 20-year-old Afro-Puerto Rican progressive college student, who organized for Bernie Sanders during the Democratic Presidential Primaries, I’m not the first voter demographic that comes to mind when election experts chart an electoral path for Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden. Sanders overwhelmingly won young voters, especially the 18-29 age group, in […]Read More
Shutting down the USPS; closing polling places; developing new voting regulations that reek of voter suppression tactics are topics of discussions all over the media.In early July, OTP reader Deborah Jacobs, emailed to us a letter of concern: “The need for all of us to protect our right to vote arose as soon as the […]Read More
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of states and cities from across the country in filing a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the United States Postal Service (USPS) and disrupt operations in an effort to undermine the November presidential election. The suit — filed against […]Read More
Guest OpinionDarlene McDonald Earlier this week, UtahPolicy.com publisher LaVarr Webb wrote an editorial addressing whether President Donald Trump is a racist for telling four congresswomen of color to “go back,” where they came from.In 1973, in one of the largest cases of its time, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump were sued by the Department of Justice for […]Read More
By Lisa Durden The late great Malcom X once said, “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman! The most unprotected person in America is the black woman! The most neglected person in America is the black woman!” Sadly, that phenomenon still applies today! Even more disturbing, many times, it’s #WACK Black people, […]Read More
