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Interview with Kam Williams Wilmer J. Leon, III is a political scientist whose primary areas of expertise are Black politics american government, and public policy. Leon has a B.S. degree in Political Science from Hampton Institute, and a Masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University. He is a nationally-syndicated…

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The media,Washington, D.C. police, and city officials were hammered for allegedly ignoring the plight of more than a dozen missing Black and Latina girls in the city. Community activists chalked the seeming indifference up to racism. The outcry triggered a spate of news stories on the missing girls, angry denials from…

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By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com The “budget lite” that our 45th President submitted is described as a “budget blueprint to make America Great Again.”  Submitted in the third week of March, it trumpets draconian cuts in many federal programs, eliminating some that provide important services, including the African Development Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community…

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By Linda Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: If a word or phrase is offensive, it is offensive no matter who says it. There should be no “gray area.” No one group or culture gets to determine that a word or phrase is offensive only if another group or culture says it. If it is offensive when…

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson I was wrong, dead wrong, about appellate court and Trump SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch. He’s not the clone of his oft-stated personal and judicial hero Antonin Scalia, he’s worse. He’s Clarence Thomas’s clone. As Paleolithic and retrograde as Scalia’s opinions were rulings and dissents were on everything from gay rights to…

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By Rahim Islam Message to the community, specifically the leaders: While this message is for everyone, it is tailored specifically to the Black leaders.  I define Black leaders as more than just elected officials. This designation includes those individuals who hold a position that serves the needs of the Black community (i.e. appointed, business, non-profit,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Shutterstock This is more than political theater of the absurd. It touches the throbbing pulse of ultra-conservatives. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Make no mistake, there’s a calculated method to Dr. Ben Carson’s zaniness. There’s absolutely no way the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development could not know that making an…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Shutterstock By Linda Wallace As 2017 unfolds, the time has come for all Americans to confront two of the scariest words on the planet: cultural audit. Cultural audits are mental exercises that enable individuals to identify and manage hidden biases and challenge their automatic assumptions. They enable us to determine whether we hold…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Discovery of Nat Turner (1800-1831), by Benjamin Phipps on October 30, 1831. Turner eluded capture for two months, he was discovered hiding in a cave.  (Engraving by William Henry Shelton (1840-1890)/Shutterstock)   By Rahim Islam “On behalf our ancestors, who are voiceless, I will represent them until I join them, and will never…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com By Marc H. Morial TriceEdneyWire.com “The brutality with which officials would have quelled the black individual became impotent when it could not be pursued with stealth and remain unobserved. It was caught—as a fugitive from a penitentiary is often caught—in gigantic circling spotlights. It was imprisoned in a luminous glare…

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