Posts in category Opinion

Much argumentation abounds, mainly between academics and politicians — and to a lesser degree, black activists – about the chicken or the egg conundrum regarding …

Ride through black neighborhoods as kids are coming home from school, and you’ll see that so many of them have no books. Check out the …

I wouldn’t put my dream up there with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s. But my dream also precipitates a cascade of social change, including …

Although TV news stories repeatedly revealed a white man apparently spitting on a  black congressman, not one network saw fit to at least opine as …

When groups such as the Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and various other black nationalist organizations appealed publicly for social justice, they were …

Civil rights leaders and organizations seem to be out of it, behind the times, in the caboose of the American political and economic train. They …

Wall Street’s constant creation of schemes to exploit leveraging (using very little investment to gain huge profit) and ensuring that laws and lawmakers protect those …

A well-established formula that Haiti’s mulatto elite employ to exercise power is called politique de doublure (“government of the understudy.”) In this paradigm, black presidents, …

It is a well-documented historical fact that France and western Europe, the Vatican and the United States, used every conceivable means to destroy the new …

In August 1791, two years after the French Revolution began, enslaved Africans revolted in the French slave colony called St. Domingue (Haiti).  Africans and some …