Lately, there’s been a rush of conferences, meetings and celebrity-studded get-togethers to try and identify some common-sense steps to improve police-community relations in the USA.
Author Archives: Dr. David L. Horne, PHD
Practical Politics
The journalism profession generally considers plagiarism a cardinal sin. There are many, many examples of those previously punished for journalistic plagiarism by suspension, termination or other means.
Practical Politics
Baltimore City State’s attorney, 35-year old Marilyn Mosby, the so-called “hip-hop state’s attorney,” so far has an 0-2 record regarding her prosecution of police officers charged with various inappropriate behaviors in connection with the arrest and transport of Freddie Gray, an African American man who died in police custody.
Practical Politics
It is certain that within the next few months the American public will be overfed the Republican Party’s view of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail situation. She will be accused of all sorts of criminal behavior and lack of sound judgement.
Practical Politics
As the summer sun
in Los Angeles makes
its very intense and
vibrant entrance this
June, it is interesting to
reflect on things before
and things now.
Practical Politics
By now current research has clearly demonstrated that many of the U.S. Ivy League schools were partially or largely financed in their early history by profits and labor from American slave trading.
Practical Politics
Interestingly, as the rate and actual incidence of abortion are steadily decreasing in the U.S.A., overt violence aimed at stopping the practice altogether has increased
Practical Politics
Okay, here it is—the idea again that death comes in threes, a belief common in both the Black community and others.
Evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement
In Los Angeles in 2014-2016, the Black Lives Matter Movement folks we’ve come to know and love seem hell-bent on disruption of municipal and county meetings as a strategy (although at best, disruption can only be a tactic, not a strategy).
Practical Politics
Now that Dr. Ben Carson has hit the inevitable brick wall we all knew was waiting for him and there seems to be no other political rump-shakers out there but Mr. Trump, along comes a spider of recognition—there is a Willie L. Wilson, D.D., on the ballot for the presidential nomination in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. Yes, he is African American.

