Commentary

By Rahim Islam Over the past two years, I’ve met with hundreds of Black men and women in a number of cities, whom are designated, appointed, elected, or by doing the work of our community can/should be considered as our leaders.  It’s obvious, based on what many do on a daily basis, they have a…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Daryl Cagle  (CagleCartoons.com) By Lee A. Daniels NNPA The August 6th Fox News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew the Republican Party’s continuing to explore different ways a political party can self-destruct. Two developments of last week have underscored that the GOP’s raging intra-party war and identity crisis…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  RJ Matson (CagleCartoons.com) By Lee A. Daniels NNPA The videos are becoming more and more difficult to watch, aren’t they? But it’s not because we’ve become inured to the violence they show. It’s because the more we watch, the more we’re shocked by what we see. We watch Eric Garner, surrounded by people…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Three. Remember that number. That’s the number of times Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will have been dragged before the Republican controlled House Select Committee to testify about Benghazi if she testifies as reports say she will this October. The date hasn’t as yet been…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Nate Beeler, The Columbus Dispatch By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Watching Donald Trump being interviewed this past week was – for the few moments that I could take it – quite fascinating. What quickly became clear was that Trump will not let the facts get in the way of his opinion. Actually, he…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Donald Trump is once again the GOP’s go-to guy when it comes to breathing life into the swatch of the party’s disconnected and alienated hard right faithful. Here’s why he’s so important in that respect. The Republican National Committee and GOP presidential contenders former…

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By Rahim Islam Universally Speaking The Black reality in America is that wherever you see large numbers of Black people in any one area, you will find a large concentration of people living in poverty.  Where you start matters and where Black people started in this country can’t be overlooked.  In addition, the cities wehre…

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By Rahim Islam There are two Chicagos, two Philadelphias, two Detroits, two Los Angeles, two St Louis, two New Yorks, two Miamis, two Houstons, and there are definitely two Milwaukees.  Why is this and what’s the common denominator? The common denominator for all of these cities is that they are made up of large mostly…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A note on the sidewalk includes photos of the nine who were killed at a memorial in front of the Emanuel AME Church on Friday, June 19, 2015 in Charleston, S.C. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, is accused of killing nine people during a Wednesday night Bible study at the church.  (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution…

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By Rahim Islam Universally Speaking Where you start matters! For the Black community in America, the economic start has been such that an accepted stigma of inferiority about Black people and Black neighborhoods has been created.  Let’s do the math.  During slavery, the majority of Blacks lived in dilapidated housing on plantations. The only exception…

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