Opinion

He built Ameri-ca from the ground up with a few tools, his bare hands and by the sweat of his brow. While doing so, he was repeatedly whipped, lynch-ed, falsely accused and castrated. Even now, […]

To understand the best traditions of African-Americans today is to know the history, principles, and productivity of train porters in the United States since 1868. Following the American Civil War, many African-American men, newly freed […]

I hate to say it but LeBron James is better than Michael Jordan and I don’t care how many championship teams Michael played on. No doubt, Michael Jordan was an awesome offensive and defensive player […]

Hunger is the body’s call for nutritional sustenance. The Infinite within us knows just what the body needs to maintain optimal health.  When the body is calling for sustenance, it is calling for the replacement […]

President Barack Obama has led the nation with strength and dignity and has shown the world that we can embrace our international brothers and sisters by allowing room for dialogue that was not present in […]

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. — Benjamin E. Mays On […]

We need a stimulus plan to preserve and expand historically black colleges. If the federal government can come up with rationalizations for bailing out Wall Street, making sure there is No Bank Left Behind and […]

I wish I could say I coined this phrase but I can’t. I don’t remember where I heard it (or from whom) but it definitely stuck in my mind. Much of the pathology that we […]

A New Visions Commentary paper published October 2008 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court NE #200, Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail Project21@nationalcenter.org, Web http://www.project21.org. Reprints permitted provided source […]

Domestic violence by an intimate partner is one of the leading killers of black women between the ages of 15 to 24, and occurs on all socioeconomic levels. According to The Institute on Domestic Violence […]