Commentary

By Linda Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: You write often about the need for good communication skills. How do you handle a college-educated friend who has never learned how to communicate effectively? He is racist and sexist; given the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., I want to have more productive conversations with him, but I am…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Colin Kaepernick  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)   The NFL has the power to enforce their ‘take it or leave it’ imperium on players, fans and politicians. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Forget all the little teases about this NFL team or that team signing Colin Kaepernick before the start of the season. Forget all…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons   By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com It’s time for television and radio talk show hosts, educators, editorial writers, columnists and politicians to cease describing  President Donald J. Trump as being “crazy,” “mentally sick,” “childish,” etc. A person with such afflictions is legally and otherwise not responsible for his or…

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By Linda Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: I don’t see Blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans. I see Americans. It seems to me that it’s the communities of color that are dividing this country. Isn’t it better to be colorblind and just see a person? — An American My Fellow American: Sometimes, acting as though we were colorblind can…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sen. John McCain   By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Arizona Sen. John McCain deserves and will get the best medical care he can get in his battle against brain cancer. Millions rightly will be pulling for his healthful recovery. But McCain’s health battle also casts an ugly glare on the hypocrisy…

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The slaying of  Justine Damond, a white woman from Australia, by a Minneapolis police officer, defies the by now ritualistic police shooting of a civilian. The ritual goes like this. A White, or non-Black, cop guns down a young, generally unarmed, African-American male. There is the inevitable rage and protests. Police…

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By Linda Wallace In performing a cultural audit, the most difficult task we encounter is overcoming the desire to make ourselves look good. An honest cultural audit helps identify opportunities for developing the social skills that support creativity, productivity and efficiency. If done correctly, it also exposes deep biases that may not even be on…

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By State Rep. Jordan Harris Recently in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection, a noose was found hanging from a tree near 18th and Lombard streets. This is the second time in nearly two weeks that this has occurred. As an elected official whose district borders where the noose was found, and…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  RJ Matson, Roll Call   By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com During the 2016 campaign, our 45th President [Donald Trump] once promised that he would be “so Presidential that it will be boring.” If only. Instead, he has managed to irk even his Republican allies by wallowing in the muck of name-calling, yet again, belittling…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com   By Elona Washington As an African-American woman, the Bill Cosby trial was unsettling. A part of me hoped that the charges were simply a misunderstanding or an attempt to extort the incredibly successful comedian, actor, director, author, and philanthropist. That’s the easiest explanation, right? And if those charges could…

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