OW Staff Writer | 8/17/2017 midnight
Following the announcement that Elizabeth Duke will replace Stephen Sanger as Chair of the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, made the following statement: “This superficial change in ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 8/17/2017 midnight
We can call last Saturday in Virginia what we want: the latest example of domestic terrorism, a current scenario displaying the present state of the U.S.A., or just an American protest gone bad. We can also see it for what ...
Charlene Crowell | NNPA News Wire Columnist | 8/17/2017 midnight
As millions of students return to school, the nation’s Justice Department (DOJ) is beginning an investigation that could potentially sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies. As first reported by “The New York Times,” the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ...
Jasmyne A. Cannick | Special to California Black Media | 8/10/2017 midnight
President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new merit-based immigration system that would screen visa applicants using a point system may be racist and exclusionary, but so is an immigrant rights movement that excludes, overlooks, and straight up ignores the voices ...
Joe Bowers | OW Contributor | 8/10/2017 midnight
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has announced that Dr. Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana will be the sixth State Administrator to lead the Inglewood Unified School District. A little less than five years ago the California Legislature passed an ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 8/10/2017 midnight
This is a multi-national world. That is, there are currently 195 countries officially recognized by the United Nations, each with its own government, economy, domestic issues and international interests. In order to enjoy relative peace and the opportunities for prosperity, ...
Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire Contributor | 8/3/2017 midnight
In an effort to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the Black community, state lawmakers in Oregon recently passed a bill to combat racial profiling by police. The Statesman Journal reported that the “bill requires law enforcement agencies to ...
Julianne Malveaux | 8/3/2017 midnight
Lots of women’s organizations commemorate Equal Pay Day, which this year was April 5. It meant that women, in general, would have had to work all of 2016, and until April 5, 2017, to earn the same amount of money ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 8/3/2017 midnight
America’s War on Drugs (WOD) (aka War on Black People) has been an ongoing messy affair for nearly 50 years. It has not stopped drug trafficking, it has not stopped drug addiction, and it has not made the USA safer. ...
Julianne Malveaux | 7/27/2017 midnight
Hugh Price was the seventh leader (from 1994 through 2002) of the National Urban League, the civil rights organization founded in 1910 to help African American migrants assimilate into urban life, to provide opportunities for urban migrants, and to eliminate ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 7/27/2017 midnight
In 2017, too many world civilization histories and success stories still focus almost exclusively on what Europeans or neo-Europeans have done or contributed. The big lie continues being taught and re-taught. Whatever Black folk have chosen to participate in throughthe ...
Maiyah Mayhan | OW Intern | 7/20/2017 midnight
When the allegations began, I too was skeptical about the situation surrounding the “Black Godfather of all Black Godfathers”—Bill Cosby. How could a man who was proclaimed “America’s Favorite Dad” possibly drug and rape approximately 50 women? After the big ...
Julianne Malveaux | 7/20/2017 midnight
During the 2016 presidential campaign, our 45th president once promised that he would be “so presidential that it will be boring.” If only. Instead, he has managed to irk even his Republican allies by wallowing in the muck of name-calling, ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 7/20/2017 midnight
In an apparent, though perhaps unintended, attempt to drive the U.S.A.’s reputation downwards, the Donald Trump administration is doing spectacularly well. A few weeks ago, this column identified the rapid decline of this country’s international reputation viz-a-viz the recent Pew ...
David L. Horne, PH.D. | 7/13/2017 midnight
As is very well known by now, the African Union, the preeminent continental African organization dedicated to African unification into a Union of African States, is very deeply involved in its drive to succeed.
