In her statement after coming in third in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, Amy Klobuchar spoke of her family’s history, from her coal-mining great-grandfather to her alcoholic father. It was an emotional story of grit and determination and it is one that will go very far in the African-American and Latino community. If her team […]Read More
The decade 2020 has a special significance to Baby Boomers. It’s the time we imagined a golden future would have arrived. Here it is, and I have to tell you, the coming decade is not shaping up at all as we thought it would. As young people, we saw progress all around us, moving the […]Read More
Why she was shot Why was Atatiana Jefferson shot in her own home by a police officer on a “wellness check” for an open door while playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew? This is not understandable by any law enforcement protocol. Atatiana had led a peaceful life with a loving family. A college graduate, […]Read More
(Excerpts from the Black History presentation at St. Philip’s Episcopal Anglican Church.) Reverend Israel, I went to the church website and saw that St. Philips, founded in 1899 in a Weeksville storefront, played a role in the history I’ll be speaking about today. And I saw in your Lenten Message there “Our Lord reminds us […]Read More
A Breath of Fresh Abrams Ms. Abrams was a brilliant choice as the person to give the Democratic response to Donald Trump. She is the polar opposite of the narcissistic and delusional crime boss that is the President of the United States. The Democratic Party wants Abrams to run for senator in 2020 because they […]Read More
Being drowned out of the controversy about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s promotion of a 70% tax rate is the fact that in 1956 the tax rate went up to 90% at the highest bracket. 1956 was also the year President Dwight Eisenhower enacted the Federal Aid Highway aka the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. Originally authorized at […]Read More
Here at the end of 2018, it is becoming difficult to believe that there is a Promised Land on the other side of the mountaintop. Those they call “The Greatest Generation” and the “Baby Boomers” are leaving a world where, in only 31 years, by 2050, reports are that 50% of the mass in the […]Read More
The New Woman in Trump’s Life Coming into his life in his dreadful new year will be New York Attorney General-elect, Letitia James, a strong Black woman and Trump’s new nightmare. With his business and campaign falling in her jurisdiction, and having said she will go after both, no doubt with the same tenacity she’s […]Read More
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