Commentaries

If Sandy Hook, Connecticut teaches us anything, it’s not about the bogus political debate about gun control. It’s about teachers, perhaps the most maligned profession in modern day America. When the Wisconsin state workers struggle… Full Transcript

Unless you lived in North Philly, in the projects east of Richard Allen, and north of Spring Garden, perhaps the name of Ruth ‘Ma’ Ballard would be unfamiliar to you. But if you lived there;… Full Transcript

Form every TV and radio news broadcast, the words, ‘fiscal cliff’ are being mentioned, in a tone and frequency of dread and fear.Listeners, viewers and readers can sense the dread and faux fear, but little… Full Transcript

It is possible now to live in a major American city, which boasts of a Black mayor, a Black police chief, and a Black president of a local legislative body, say, a city council, or… Full Transcript

Friends, comrades, Brothas & Sistas— We are at a new phase of this struggle; due to your work, I am no longer on Death Row; I am on ‘slow death row.’ A new place, yes… Full Transcript

Just days after U.S.-made Israeli F-16s bombed homes and buildings in Gaza, verbal bombs have been launched at the West Bank – Palestine’s other half – for daring to go to the UN to try… Full Transcript

Once again, Israel is in a rage, bombing a weaker Arab neighbor, one that would be hard pressed to face the most powerful armed force in the Middle East. And once again, the U.S.is playing… Full Transcript

The 2012 election was a masterpiece in the role of money versus real issues in the future of the United States. According to some accounts, over 6 billion dollars in ad buys flushed through the… Full Transcript

For decades, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) has been the focus of fear. Fear because the agency, which years ago recruited heavily from the South, had people on staff that used their office to further… Full Transcript