As America struggles with the challenges of COVID-19, and a depression/recession, there is sunshine and a belief of tremendous success with people of color. Truth, integrity and factual information are the foundation that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are building thei…
Opinion
When Rev. Raphael Warnock prevailed in the special election on Jan. 5, he was the first African American from Georgia to win a U.S. Senate sea…
We are observing Black History Month during historically challenging times. In addition to COVID-19, we are besieged by chronic economic insec…
Vaccine makers reassured Congress on Tuesday they will boost production and provide an additional 140 million doses in the next five weeks, ov…
Speak not ill of the dead, I was taught in Sunday school. I respect that. But if I couldn’t eulogize Rush Limbaugh, who died Feb. 17, without …
”President Joe Biden has inherited an even worse situation than our nation faced back in 2009: a national health crisis that has led to the de…
Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that would have provided many families with children a monthly …
At $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage is appallingly low.
Malcolm X’s radical legacy continues to undergo an extraordinary resurgence in American politics and culture more than half a century after hi…
Qubiliah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz, Gamilah Shabazz and attorney Ben Crump unveil what they say is new evidence in the decades-old slaying at N…
Irv Randolph
The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on many businesses, forcing many to close.
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced police reform legislation named in honor of George Floyd, whose death in police custody last year sp… Read more
The U.S. has reached a grim milestone: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. Read more
Acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month’s U.S. Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump can and should still be held legally… Read more
Public schools nationwide including in Philadelphia are struggling with the question of when to return to in-person schooling. Read more
The Philadelphia Tribune continues to support Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw following a tumultuous first year on the job. Read more
The Biden administration was right to drop the Trump administration’s discrimination lawsuit against Yale University, which alleged the Ivy Le… Read more
The Kansas City Chiefs are set to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV Sunday. Read more
Michael Coard
Many people know that Philadelphia is the home of the nation’s first “White House” where President George Washington enslaved nine Black human beings beginning in 1790.
Feb. 25, 2021 will mark the 184th anniversary of Cheyney University’s founding in 1837. Think about that for a second. Cheyney was born during… Read more
President George Washington’s teeth weren’t made of wood from brown trees. They were made of enamel from Black humans. But like branches being… Read more
On Jan. 29, 2021, 89-year-old John Chaney, born Jan. 21, 1932 in Jacksonville, Fla., became a revered ancestor. Read more
Today’s article is part fourteen in my ongoing and periodic series entitled “Philly’s Jim Crow,” which started on Sept. 10, 2016 and focuses o… Read more
Well, first of all, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ain’t Black. And he never said he was. Read more
January is the birth month of most of the so-called Black Greek-letter organizations, commonly known as the Divine Nine and officially known a… Read more
Immediately after a violent mob of white racist fascists — including Drumpf, thousands of MAGATs, several Republican Congresspersons, Senators… Read more
Alonzo Kittrels' Back in the Day
Many of you have no love for the man that is highlighted in today’s column. Read more
While today is Valentine’s Day, I assure you that today will be unlike Valentine’s Days of the past. Read more
Recently, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been getting considerable attention. Much of this attention comes from the… Read more
I looked around the family room for something to read during halftime of the National Football League championship game last Sunday as I neede… Read more
Last week I stopped into The Tribune’s Advertising Department where I encountered two employees who were scrutinizing a headline in a section … Read more
Several weeks ago, a Tribune employee asked me if I recall the days when considerable attention was given to keeping our neighborhoods clean. … 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
Dear COVID-19,
When will workers get a break?