Posts in category Opinion

See if you can hang with me on this one. My perspective on legalization of marijuana (pot) begins with my “street cred,” that is to …

This should have been a serious investigation into why this prejudice over skin colour still exists. Instead, we got a slightly flippant host and some …

A welcome pattern has been developing with regard to sentences against nonviolent drug offenders, with President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder leading …

By Gilbert Rainford: Note: This is the text of a presentation I made at a meeting of the World Future Society in Orlando on July …

By Antonia Williams Gary What does a monster look like? Lately, President Barack Obama has been painted as the worst U.S.president since… (fill in the …

By ROSE HEDGEMOND Special to South Florida Times   Summer is such a wonderful time to meet new people and establish great new relationships – …

For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their …

The furor which broke out in early June after the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) announced acceptance of $25 million from Koch Industries and the …

The other day a friend reminded me that 50 years ago on July 11, 1964, Lemuel Penn, the black assistant superintendent of Washington, D.C., Schools, …

Al Calloway’s column, Let’s have no illusions about politics, published on July 3, compelled me to weigh in with my own take on the theme. …