The message cannot be masked: the Truth will out View From HereBy David Mark GreavesOnce upon a time, Columbus Day was a festive occasion. A day off from school. Parades. Flags waving. This was before we learned to instead honor Indigenous People Day and acknowledge that this was once their land, that we stand on […]Read More

Sen. Kamala Harris “The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country,” said Senator Kamala Harris in the 2020 vice presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence. View From HereBy David Mark GreavesThere is no more to say about Donald Trump. We are in […]Read More

View From HereBy David Mark Greaves If you were worried about the election before the first Presidential debate, you must be more so afterward. Trump has no respect for rules or constraints of any kind and it is painfully apparent that he has no intention of abiding by the results if he loses. And he […]Read More

View From HereBy David Mark Greaves Breonna Taylor: Is this justice?In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, we learn that no charges are filed against two of the police officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death, and charges against the third officer for shooting wildly into a neighbor’s apartment.Confronted with men breaking into the apartment, Breonna’s boyfriend, […]Read More

View from HereBy David Mark Greaves It’s not like we have not been warned and continue to be. We have been warned about it all.Warned about chemicals in the water, plastic pollution of the oceans, climate change bringing wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and droughts. W.E.B DuBois warned that “The problem of the 20th century is the […]Read More

At the center of his psyche, Donald Trump understands he is a natural born loser in disguise and his rage at having it exposed is dangerous to all of us.Never, ever, have I heard people in combat, friend or foe, referred to as “suckers” and “losers,” and yet, that’s what President Trump is reported to […]Read More

By David Mark Greaves In this coming Saturday’s New York City lien sales of 4,700 properties, we see how America’s legacy of racism is baked into the system, showing itself at key moments in our lives, enveloping our lives and limiting our horizons from the moment of birth.In a release calling for Mayor De Blasio […]Read More

View From HereBy David Mark Greaves It’s a short hip hop from the misogyny, materialism and alpha male worship of too much rap music to the 13 percent of Black men who voted for Donald Trump in the last election.The posturing, the bravado, the flaunting of supposed wealth, Trump was the embodiment of that rap […]Read More