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Ending Violence Against Women
March is the official month to “discuss” women and it could not arrive too soon. What is sad about both Black History Month (February) and International Women’s Month (March) is that too many of
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Django: Part Blaxploitation, All Genius
When I settled in to see “Django Unchained” recently, I was already pretty cynical because over the years I have grown quite distrustful and suspicious about most anything that comes out of Hollywood. This
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Have Your Say Without the Insults
Political civility is dead. We know: that’s not news to anyone. We were reminded by Felice Pete of just how uncivil – and uncivilized, to some extent – folks are these days. The Wake
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Voting Rights Act under attack
Shelby County, Ala. is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair. The facts: The small
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Logan Burke
We join the community in mourning the loss of yet another one of our icons, Logan Burke. Burke was a quiet giant. His modesty kept many of his vast achievements obscure. Long before he
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Guns, not the Klan, are the real threat
Chicago suffers unbearable levels of gun violence, yet the victims remain largely silent. They travel from funeral home to graveyard, rather than march from church to gun shop. The president is applauded when he
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Access Denied?
Access in East Winston onto and off of Highway 52 became even more restricted this week. The state Department of Transportation permanently closed the Fifth Street entrance ramp to the highway on Monday. This
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Mississippi, Again!
In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one night career on WNDU, the campus radio station. After I played Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam!,” I was banned from the airwaves.
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Whitney Young: Mr. Inside
“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective
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Rallying to Right Wrongs
On Saturday, Feb. 9, thousands of participants arrived at Shaw University (in Raleigh) to march to the General Assembly (The People’s House) on Jones Street. The State NAACP, in conjunction with more than 100
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