Donald Trump has a type — and it’s not the one tabloids flaunted. His real issue is Black women who hold power. From Letitia “Tish” James to economist Lisa Cook, […]
Tag: politics
Posted inNational
Obama fills the Void in a fading Democratic Party
Former President Barack Obama has stepped back into the political arena, delivering some of his sharpest critiques yet of President Donald Trump as the Democratic Party struggles through one of […]
Posted inAcross Black America
Ranking member Maxine Waters and House Democrats hold press conference urging “NO” vote
Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Representatives Brad Sherman (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Sylvia Garcias (D-TX), and Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), held a press conference urging […]
Posted inOp-ed, Opinion-OW, Practical Politics
Practical Politics
With President Trump in the White House this time, his character as a distinctive “agent of chaos” is on full display. In American and world literature, an “agent of chaos” […]
Posted inGovernment/Politics, Local Politics, Op-ed, Opinion, Practical Politics
Practical Politics
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is currently the political head of the second largest city in the U.S. (there are currently at least 48 elected African Americans in charge […]
Posted inCovers
YEAR IN REVIEW
Each week, there is an overflow of news of interest to people living across the African Diaspora, but quite often these stories go unknown. Telling snapshots of the African-American stories […]
Posted inCovers, Government, Government/Politics, Local Politics
… And the votes are still being counted
OK, residents did their part and voted — whether by mail, by vote box, or in person — during Tuesday’s midterm elections. Now, for many races, it’s waiting time before […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The politics of the disappearing Black teachers
Besides an effective economic delivery system, the foundation marks of successful civilizations and nation states are public approval of and continuous work to maintain the society’s governmental structures, and an […]
Posted inGuest Opinions, National, Opinion, Practical Politics
The politics of chickens coming home to roost
Not only is it clearly evident that American public school education has not been paying enough attention to teaching American government (generally called Civics) for the last 20 years or […]
