Opinions
Athletes face monkey chants, bananas and more
OPINION - By now you’ve heard the comment. A noted PGA Tour veteran made an off-color joke about Tiger Woods, referencing fried chicken...
Ramarley Graham and the wailing cry of injustice
OPINION - The sound of a mother’s wailing cry is an alert that a great injustice has occurred. I have experienced that cry many times throughout my career in the social justice movement...
No 'excuse' for simplifying Obama's Morehouse message
OPINION - Interestingly enough, both the president’s detractors as well as his supporters will seize on the same soundbite from his address to the 2013 graduating class at Morehouse College...
Speaking up for slain LGBT mayoral candidate
OPINION - It’s been 82 days since the body of Marco McMillian, a black mayoral candidate, who was also gay, was found on the Mississippi River levee, unclothed...
Malcolm X’s triumphs still trump his tragedies
OPINION - Eighty years after the birth and forty eight years after the assassination of black nationalist leader Malcolm X, the tragedy and triumph of his life and work still clouds and uplifts us...
Malcolm Shabazz endured a life of ‘unbearable’ expectations
OPINION - So many in the media have always and will continue to refer to Malcolm Shabazz as 'troubled'...
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