Commentary

ABOVE PHOTO:  Blacks For Trump 2020.com screen grab By Earl Ofari Hutchinson They had the best, closest and most visible spot in the crowd behind President Donald Trump at his much-touted recent pep rally in Melbourne, Florida. “They” being the handful of Blacks that enthusiastically waved the “Blacks for Trump” signs behind him. The Black…

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By Linda Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: Q: A lot of my friends say they are colorblind, but I wonder if that is possible in such a race-conscious society. Do you think it possible to react in the same way to ethnically diverse communities? RACE-CONSCIOUS Dear Race-Conscious: A: It is possible to attain a level of…

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ABOVE CARTOON: (Taylor Jones, Politicalcartoons.com) By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com President Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office have left Americans reeling from what Republican speechwriter Peggy Noonan called his “cloud of crazy.” His cabinet nominees seem intentionally perverse: an education secretary who has no clue about public schools; an energy secretary who wanted to eliminate…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star Where does the Black community go from here? Part One By Rahim Islam On November 9, 2016, America witnessed one of the biggest and most historical political earthquakes ever.  Very few people saw this coming.  In fact, most predicted that Donald Trump would lose convincingly to Hilary Clinton. …

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ABOVE CARTOON:  (Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch) According to a coalition of community groups, Pennsylvania doesn’t have a friend in Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. By Denise Clay When President Donald Trump announced that he had chosen Judge Neil Gorsuch to be his nominee for the Supreme Court seat that’s sat vacant since the…

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By Linda Wallace It took a few painful years for me to stumble upon a remarkable discovery: Not everything bad that happens to me occurs because my skin is brown. On the contrary, I find that the fact I am female seems to matter considerably in the business world. On two occasions, supervisors offered me…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The Democratic National Committee was by any standard a wreck and a ruin during the 2016 presidential campaign. It got pounded for misstep after misstep, which included: poor, and disconnected leadership, leaked emails, gross favoritism, petty infighting, blatant manipulation of the primaries, and gross…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Robert Johnson By Jim Clingman TriceEdneyWire.com One of the post-election highlights for me was the meeting between Donald Trump and Bob Johnson.  Billionaire to billionaire, Democrat to Republican, Black to White, businessman to businessman, capitalist to capitalist, meeting on a relatively even playing field to discuss some of the “what now issues” was…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  (Sabir Nazar, Cagle.com) By Rahim Islam I don’t subscribe to the theory that “Things can’t get any worse, therefore we shouldn’t do anything.”  If the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency should tell you anything, it’s that things are about to get much worse and that this foolish concept is on the…

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Local organizations stand ready to provide guidance and assistance By Amy V. Simmons The chaos throughout the country and the world due to incendiary “extreme vetting” Executive Orders issued from the Trump administration last week has people wondering “What can we do?” Social media memes espousing one viewpoint or the other, Facebook arguments, and severed…

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