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Twelve million dollars? Now who could get twisted about media mogul Oprah Winfrey donating $12 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s African American History Museum, being erected prominently on the National Mall? Surprisingly a number of silly souls do, if you troll the web.more
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Is Oprah’s $12 Million Gift Being Wisely Used?
Originally published June 19, 2013Twelve million dollars? Now who could get twisted about media mogul Oprah Winfrey donating $12 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s African American History Museum, being erected prominently on the National Mall? Surprisingly a number of silly souls do, if you troll the web.more
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Editorial
June 05, 2013 -
Preeminent Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, said the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday legitimizing Maryland law enforcement’s use of an overreaching procedure of collecting genetic data in serious crimes will likely lead the way to more troubling privacy violations of the 4th Amendment's protection against “unreasonable search and seizure.”more
May 29, 2013 -
Many Black Alexandrians are calling it “our local Trayvon Martin case.” And, they won’t rest until they get “Justice for Julian.” more
May 22, 2013 -
Del. Charniele Herring has traveled around this country, but the first African American woman to chair the Democratic Party of Virginia says, “I just love Virginia; it’s been very good to me,” Ironic words coming from this great-great-granddaughter of a Lynchburg slave who today leads the state’s political party that once upheld segregation in the former capital of the Confederacy.more
May 15, 2013 -
A Philadelphia prosecutor called it a “house of horrors.” But it was no amusement day at Hershey Park for the unsuspecting women who entered the Women’s Medical Society in West Philly for more than 15 years. more
May 08, 2013 -
Post-racial politics? The issue of race in 2014, particularly in the local Democratic primaries, is already a determining factor. The rapidly changing demographics in the DMV—D.C., Maryland and Virginia—are not only redrawing the landscape but also restrucuturing the political playing fields. And all are reading those color-coded 2012 election results like tea leaves.more
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Have You Seen This Yet?
March 12, 2012 -
In a week of circus like activity for the GOP, Republican Congressman Allen West may have taken the award for the most over the top statement ever given. In a recent sit down with the Florida Representative, CNN anchor John King asked Mr. West how he felt about being a black Congressman during Black History Month.more
December 05, 2011 -
The greeting on your website says, "we are looking forward to hearing from you", but I'm not sure you will be looking forward to hearing from me, Mr. Cain.more
November 03, 2011 -
The greeting on your website says, "we are looking forward to hearing from you", but I'm not sure you will be looking forward to hearing from me, Mr. Cain.more
September 06, 2011 -
A timeline of actions by our Presidents which helped the United States land in the economic situation it is in today, going back to Ronald Reagan.more
June 15, 2011 -
Can you guess which national organization houses more criminally-involved participants?more
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Commentary
June 19, 2013 -
In January, the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Regional Office was the slowest processing center in the nation with more than 20,000 pending claims. In January, the average wait for claims to be processed in Baltimore was averaging almost one year.more
June 12, 2013 -
When President Obama and the first lady travel to Africa at the end of this month, they will receive a rapturous greeting. The president’s deep roots in Kenya, the land of his father, resonate throughout the continent. His success in the United States evokes pride and joy in Africa.more
June 12, 2013 -
The recently released University System of Maryland report on Coppin State University has generated mixed reaction among Coppin supporters and other observers of Historically Black Colleges across the country. The most generous of individuals reacting to the report give the University System of Maryland and the state of Maryland the benefit of the doubt as to their purpose in issuing the document. They simply say “It’s about time,” obviously referring to many years of benign neglect of the North Avenue campus by the state and the University System of Maryland.more
June 12, 2013 -
“The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.”
- Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Courtmore
- Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Courtmore
June 12, 2013 -
We're Black and African-Americans. We're Negroes. We are not, and have never been the "n" word. We are not better than any other race, nor is there any race better than us. It was that kind of deluded thinking that gave birth to the "n" word. One race created the belief that they were superior to black people because of our color.more
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