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‘What Have You Done for Me Lately?’
Those of you who are still election weary from last year may not be pleased that another round of contests will be decided this year. Unfortunately, many don’t hold municipal elections in the same
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Black History Month
The first week of National Black History Month has come and gone. Haven’t you noticed the tributes to black culture on your televisions, radios and computer screens? The problem with limiting the celebration of
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The Legislature’s Numbers Game
It’s sometimes hard to distinguish these days the difference between the governing body of the state of North Carolina and one of the mafia families of New York City. After all, North Carolina runs
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Obama Slights Blacks
President Barack Obama has the opportunity, in this second term, to put his feet on history. He won an election that his opponent had essentially claimed, he has been firm about that which he
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Hands off Malia and Sasha!
Just when you think leaders of the National Rifle Association can’t stoop any lower, they keep managing to plunge even deeper. This time, they have strayed way over the line of respectability by
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Remembering Hardesty
On Jan. 9, 2013 hundreds of people gathered at Goler Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church to celebrate the home going of Mr. Charles L. Hardesty. Charles left us on Jan. 5, his 60th birthday. Charlie,
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Mortgage servicers’ settlement
Submitted by Charlene Crowell: The recent joint announcement by two key federal regulators of a negotiated agreement with 10 mortgage servicing firms would help more than 3.8 million consumers who were wrongfully foreclosed during
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Is MLK Day a Time for Celebration?
This coming Monday, and the days leading up to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, will be routine. Men, women and children of every creed and color will march, evoking Dr. King’s dream
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Why No Uproar For Heaven?
Submitted by Kalvin Michael Smith, Guest Columnist Heaven Sutton was the seven-year-old African American girl who was shot and killed in Chicago last year while fleeing with her mother. “Why no uproar for Heaven?” Not
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The Black Press at its Best
Submitted by George Curry, Guest Columnist When then-National Newspaper Publishers Association Chairman Danny Bakewell Sr. asked me to emcee the Black Press Week luncheon at the National Press Club in 2011, I had no
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