Opinion
Fear can immobilize you
By E. Faye Williams Trice Edney Newswire Every time we turn on television, we hear “Breaking News” and it’s always something worse than the last news. It’s beginning to make many fearful of what could […]
Year: 2018
Opinion
Diane Nash: A Civil Rights Icon Celebrates her 80th Birthday
By Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “She would not be moved. I felt my voice go up another decibel and another decibel and soon I was shouting. ‘Young woman, do you […]
Entertainment
Carter & June
Film Review by Kam Williams Bank Heist Dramedy Has Shades of Baby Driver Baby Driver was this critic’s pick for the #1 movie of 2017. It never takes very long for idea-bereft Hollywood to imitate […]
Entertainment
The Gospel According to André
Film Review by Kam Williams Riveting Retrospective Chronicles Career of Flamboyant Fashionista André Leon Talley was born on October 16, 1949 in Washington, DC, but raised in Durham, NC by his maternal grandmother, Bennie […]
Entertainment
George Takei
The “American” Interview with Kam Williams Legendary Thespian Reflects on Mistreatment of Japanese-Americans during WWII Despite an enviable career spanning six decades, George Takei remains best- known around the world for his founding role […]
Opinion
The reasons why the U.S. has never achieved greatness
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com A recent column by a black Republican activist in the Washington Informer included the following: “But to my liberal friends who constantly ask ‘When was America great?’ I simply say […]
Entertainment
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Film Review by Kam Williams Papal Profile Paints Intimate Portrait of the People’s Pontiff Who is Pope Francis? Baptized Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was born in Argentina on December 17, 1936. He would follow […]
Entertainment
Life of the Party
Film Review by Kam Williams Just-Dumped Divorcee’ Returns to College in Bawdy, Midlife Crisis Comedy Deanna Miles (Melissa McCarthy) was a junior in college when she got pregnant and dropped out of school to […]
Entertainment
A Perilous Path
Book Review by Kam Williams Talking Race, Inequality and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson and Anthony G. Thompson The New Press Hardcover, $14.99 126 pages ISBN: 978-1-62097-395-0 “We are […]
Education
Hinds CC hosts ninth annual special education field day for Hinds County students
RAYMOND – For the ninth year in a row, Hinds Community College hosted special education field day for Hinds County students on May 2. Students from Hinds County schools throughout the district gathered at Gene Murphy […]