When “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah opened his nightly monologue with “Let’s talk about slavery” a couple of years ago, he immediately followed with alarm, “No, white people, come ba-a-a-ack.”
Opinion
The saga of Bruce’s Beach, a California park with stunning Pacific Ocean views, is a story for our times. The land was effectively stolen near…
Reparations to Black Americans for centuries of slavery and oppression have been discussed for a long time. But ever since journalist and auth…
Like many progressives, I like the Biden administration’s plan to invest in infrastructure, but really love its plans to invest more in people…
Last Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina added himself to the long list of Republicans who have denied the existence of systemic rac…
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Fund community groups in city to overcome violence
“My fellow Americans, look, we have to come together to heal the soul of this nation ... We have the giant opportunity to bend the arc of the …
Some questions can best be answered with another question.
“America is not a racist country,” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., declared, directly after accusing liberals of calling him the “n-word” and “Uncle Tom.”
Irv Randolph
After the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer almost a year ago, we saw thousands hit the streets to protest excessive force.
A daughter hugging her mother. A son holding his mother’s hand. A mother overcome with emotion that her own 95-year-old mother survived the CO… Read more
In August 2019, the New York Times published The 1619 Project, a significant work of journalism that highlights the long-term consequences of … Read more
President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress last week including a massive $2.3 trillion infrastruc… Read more
In response to President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last week, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) saved some of his sharpes… Read more
Lawrence Clark, an organizer with the Zero Now Network coalition, says a tracking system for ammunition could help law enforcement solve gun v… Read more
The good news is that coronavirus shots are now in the arms of nearly half of American adults. Read more
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says that he’s hopeful a deal can be reached on policing reform in the next several weeks, and he’s instr… Read more
Michael Coard
Why would any Black person (or woke white person) vote for the guy who’s endorsed by the same police union that twice endorsed racist Trump — who himself was endorsed twice by the KKK — and the same police union that hangs out with the racist Proud Boys?
This is Vol. 1 of my monthly column entitled Black Dollars Matter. And although it will light a fire under white businesses that treat Black c… Read more
Pennsylvania’s primary election day is May 18, 2021. And although it’s during what’s known as an “off-year election” cycle that features no ma… Read more
As Brother Malcolm used to say, “Make it plain.” Read more
Charles Hamilton Houston, Esq. was the architect of civil rights litigation in the mid-1930s through the late-1940s who laid the foundation fo… Read more
African-Americans are the only people in the history of humankind who pay racists to be racist. In other words, they are the only people who v… Read more
On March 22, a white man with a gun mowed down 10 innocent human beings in Boulder, Colorado. Read more
Just as the KKK, founded in 1865, immediately began using illegal and violent means in Tennessee to intimidate Blacks who were petitioning for… Read more
Alonzo Kittrels' Back in the Day
I was asked by the Tribune Magazine’s Editor if I knew about Red Rabbit, the largest Black owned K-12 Food Company which was expanding to scho… Read more
The television commercial where a little girl is sent by her parents to take food to the home of Mr. Charles is special. It is touching! As a … Read more
Several weeks ago, a colleague told me that her eyes became fixated on something as she traveled to work and she could not wait to share it wi… Read more
March 30 will be forever stamped in my memory. On this day, I received my second COVID-19 vaccine. Regrettably, it was also the day that at th… Read more
After reviewing my Easter columns of the past, I found nothing for 2019 or 2020. This was surprising as I always devote my column to the holid… Read more
Some of you can recall those Saturday mornings as a child playing jacks, shooting marbles, riding scooters or go carts, playing wall ball, and… Read more
Daryl Bell
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should levy a hefty fine against the Philadelphia Eagles for their disgraceful performance in the season finale…
The Frog is angry.
I have a dream. It’s the kind of dream that will make many people in the Keystone State happy. It’s also the kind of dream that can start a ci…
Don’t blink but there’s something going on in Cleveland.
With the tenacity of a boxer, the mindset of a chess master, and the determination of a distance runner, Mark "Frog" Carfagno has developed a …
They've been decimated by injury. They've been beleaguered by poor play calling. They've been bemoaned by uninspired play.
Let’s stop drinking the spiked Kool-Aid and dreaming the impossible dream. The Philadelphia Eagles will not win Super Bowl LV at Raymond James…
Glenn Ellis
After over a year’s worth of weekly columns, centered around the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on all of us, this is the last one on the subject. Instead, I decided to devote this column to what we should have learned from the past year of being in the throes of the pandemic. …
Clarence Page: A GED for college? Not as far-fetched as it sounds