Obama Blunders on Call to Bomb Syria [For publication the week of September 9, 2013] Articles and Essays by Dr. Ron Daniels As of this writing, President Obama is frantically pleading with members of Congress, the American people and heads of state of other nations to follow his lead in “punishing” the Assad regime […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves As we mark the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for voting rights and jobs we see voter suppression laws going into place across the country and the unemployment rate for African-Americans remaining at twice that of whites. After slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights struggles, it is […]readmore
The FBI has sent an interrogation unit to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old that video shows apparently placing the second of two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 180 at the Boston Marathon. One of their goals is to find the “reason” for the bombing, they want to hear, “We did it […]readmore
The country has entered the era of the sequester, across-the-board budget cuts, because the Republicans refuse to raise taxes on the voters in their gerrymandered districts or the people who fund their campaigns. It is the politically drawn voting district, including voters most likely to vote for the party doing the drawing and that portion […]readmore
I have to say that as much as I admire and respect President Barack Obama, his second inaugural speech, on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday observance, gave short shrift to the African-American community and did not mention racism as a continuing evil. Early in his speech he says, “Through blood drawn by lash and blood […]readmore
On January 21st African-Americans will watch Barack Hussein Obama be sworn in for a second term as President of the United States of America, a man who acknowledges that he stdid not get there on his own. He is, as we all are, standing on the shoulders of giants. And what has moved us from […]readmore
By Theresa O’Neal I was giving my place a special cleaning yesterday in preparation for Christmas and New Year’s and I threw the windows open to let some fresh air in as well. It was a typical Saturday before the holidays, busy washing, cooking, cleaning and I was about to run my errands. As I […]readmore
Looking at the happy, engaged young people at the Brooklyn Brownstone School, one has to wonder what kind of planet are we bequeathing to them and what preparation will they have for it? We leave 2012 with a clear picture that global warming is creating a world very different than the one we have known. […]readmore