by Mitch Randall | Feb 17, 2022 | Opinion
WARNING: Some language in this article may be offensive to some readers, but isn’t that the point? Hip-hop legend Andre Romelle Young, a.k.a. Dr. Dre, took over the halftime stage at Super Bowl 56. Along with an entourage of Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige,...
by William H. Lamar IV | Feb 17, 2022 | Opinion
Malcolm X once said, “Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn’t make them biscuits.” Brother Malcolm’s sentiments should apply to our thinking about democracy in the American Empire. We are told that we live in a democracy, but that does not make...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 16, 2022 | Opinion
Like many people, Susan and I watched the Super Bowl to see what all the excitement was about, and to judge whether the commercials were worth the price of admission. The Coinbase screensaver and the Zaxby’s guy on a buffalo wing were definitely not. The football game...
by Leslie Copeland-Tune | Feb 16, 2022 | Opinion
I will probably never forget the pain in my mother’s voice in 2013 after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Shelby County v. Holder case. Their ruling gutted two significant provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, legislation which she had fought hard for and...
by Kathleen Post | Feb 16, 2022 | Opinion
I was not expecting to meet the Holy Spirit when watching The Color Purple, but I am positive I did. “God is inside me and everyone else. That is or ever will be.” These were the words I heard sung over me at Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York City in the Summer of...
by Jeffrey Haggray | Feb 15, 2022 | Opinion
A democracy without voting rights for all citizens is dead. The parallel between those words and the words of James 2:14-17 is intentional, “faith without works is dead.” Black Americans know full well the disfranchisement and injustice that attend the absence of...
