Posts in category Opinion

It was during the winter of ’58 and all of ’59 that I got used to seeing then LeRoi Jones, the black writer white intellectuals …

SOUTH BAY – Kat Kerr, the author of Revealing Heaven says in heaven there are rollercoasters and movie theaters. “You literally do have mansions in …

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church and he almost never elaborates in public …

RIVIERA BEACH — Tracy Martin, father of slain teen Trayvon Martin, presented longtime civic leader Dan Calloway with the 50 Year Living Legends Award at …

Although we are consistently told by all manner of data that the American populace is divided nearly in half politically, there are so many other …

Although we are consistently told by all manner of data that the American populace is divided nearly in half politically, there are so many other …

I was probably born listening to jazz music. It was the dominant sounds of my Harlem upbringing.  Its roots of work songs, blues and gospel …

Well, here we are again, entering “Black History Month,” and our “educated” class led by blacks who have earned doctorate degrees in education (Ed. D.) …

Unless you want to live in the projects or a deteriorating tenement building teeming with America’s black poor, grand Harlem, with its mixture of the …

What flipped me into revolutionary-type fervor as a young teenager was the gruesome photograph of 14-year-old Emmett Till’s battered remains on the cover of Jet …