Posts in category Opinion

Earlier this year, when the administration proposed deep cuts to the National Institutes of Health, lawmakers from both parties swiftly and rightly pushed back. Slashing …

DATING BACK CENTURIES: The archive dating back centuries contradicts assumptions that African history has been primarily oral. PHOTO COURTESY NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM/HISTORY Timbuktu, Mali (AP) — Thirteen …

Congress has handed hospital giants a new line of taxpayer-funded credit. This summer, Congress included a $50 billion "rural health fund" in the multitrillion-dollar One …

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia on Friday confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in a southern region of the country that …

Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was celebrated as the father of the environmental justice movement at the Mississippi Statewide …

Finally! The Republican majority Senate voted to end the longest government shutdown in history with the support of a handful of Democrats. It is highly …

Rep. Greg Meeks PHOTO COURTESY OF STJOHNS.EDU “A complex reality” is being overlooked by President Donald Trump, with his Friday proposal to send the U.S. …

PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS "A top Justice Department lawyer," the Washington Post reports, "has told lawmakers that the Trump administration can continue its …

Cultural Division Elks Lodge PHOTO COURTESY OF BROWARD.ORG Now you see it, now you don’t, like a cheap magic trick, justice can disappear in a …

BLACK RIVER: The hurricane came ashore just west of the Jamaica town that the government now describes as the storm’s "ground zero." One of the …