Opinion
‘White in America’: Huffington Post Fails to Source BBN. What Will CNN Do?
In December 2012, CNN aired Black in America, its fifth installment in a series examining the experiences of Blacks/African Americans in the United States. Blacks were the focus of the program, but CNN’s In America series, hosted by Soledad O’Brien, has also covered Latinos, Asians, Muslims and Gays. After watching the latest installment, I thought More...
Central Park Five: Case Study, Cautionary Tale for Prosecutors
(Circa 1980s to 2000s) You go to law school, you graduate, you pass the bar, you become a prosecutor. The “biggest case of the century” lands on your desk. You are tossed in the spotlight, you are More...
What’s Going On: ‘Marvin Gaye’s Love Letter to the Future’
I remember precisely where I was and what I was doing on April 1, 1984. In 1984 I was a student at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia; and, on the 1st of April I was in my off-campus apartment cleaning and listening More...
My Experience with Foster Care and Homelessness
A new article by the Washington Informer highlights the link between foster care and homelessness citing that according to one local organization, nearly 40% of young homeless people in DC were either in foster More...
Cory Booker Needs to Find His Michelle Obama
Those of you who follow politics have watched the steady rise of one of the Democratic Party’s bright young stars, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker. Booker is the young, single, African-American mayor who More...
Ignorance Not An Excuse for NY Politician Dov Hikind in Blackface Costume
As we near the end of Black History Month 2013, we are reminded that ignorance, intolerance and the promotion of racist principles continue. This time the offense comes from none other than a powerful New York More...
History Fact: The Great and Overlooked Contribution to U.S. Economy
When I travel to Atlanta, Georgia, I stay with my friends Suzanne and David Mitchell, and their five-year-old twins. The Mitchell’s have a warm, tastefully decorated, yet unpretentious home near Turner Field. More...
‘Inner City Blues’: Timothy Stansbury – 1984 to 2004
On January 24, 2004, Timothy Stansbury, an unarmed 19-year-old was shot and killed by New York City Police Officer Richard S. Neri, Jr., while he patrolled the roof top of the Louis Armstrong Housing development More...
1955 to 1956: Evidence of HEART, LOVE, SACRIFICE & COMMUNITY
The other day, a friend reminded me of this historical fact: The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 13 months. What transpired in those 13 months is pure evidence of heart, love, sacrifice for community. From 1955 More...
(Photos) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Dr. King Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. On April 4, 1968 he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39-years-old when he was killed. (The federal holiday in his More...
