Posts in category Opinion

By BARBARA HOWARD When one speaks of a coup, one usually is speaking of a dictatorial regime being overthrown – not the president of the …

Pope Francis PHOTO COURTESY OF CRUX NOW By NICOLE WINFIELD and ANTONIO CALANNI BOZZOLO, Italy (AP) – Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to northern Italy …

By AL CALLOWAY Apparently there is a lot wrong with NAACP leadership, which may be why America’s “venerable” civil rights organization seems to be falling …

By ROGER CALDWELL As a child growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, I don’t understand millennia’s’ fixation on texting, and their spending hours on …

PHOTO COURTESY OF FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY By REVEREND DR. R.B HOLMES Florida A&M University is beginning a very important chapter in its storied life. Undoubtedly the …

By JAMES H. SWAIN I’ve been blessed and highly favored. Daddy has been around for as long as I can remember. He turned 94 this …

Valerie Brown is the founder and visionary of Lady Be Free Resource Center, which hosted the Lady Spring Forth Summit. Photo courtesy of Kathia Augustin …

By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN The killing of two Good Samaritans and wounding of a third for defending two young women being verbally abused by a racist …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER Sometimes, someone says something that is valid, true and important, but because of who they are, the message is attacked along with …

By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY I am spinning with a variety of reactions to the suicide bombings, terrorists’ attacks, an outrageous public lynching (Richard Collin III), and …