| May 2, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyA recent CBS/New York Times poll found that 25 percent of Americans and 45 percent of registered Republican voters believe that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Another 22 percent of Republican voters say they don’t know. For the record,...
| Mar 21, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThere’s a silver lining in the dark cloud of the Great Recession. A new Census Bureau report reveals that from 2002 to 2007, the number of black-owned businesses in the United States increased by 60.5 percent to 1.9 million–more than triple the national...
| Dec 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWith all the talk about firing “underperforming” teachers, closing the achievement gap, and adopting “common core standards” for students, too many experts are missing a basic source of America’s education woes: the inherently unequal and...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIn April 1963, while confined to jail in Birmingham, Alabama for leading peaceful civil rights demonstrations in what was then considered to be the most segregated city in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an open letter challenging a group of local ministers...
| Sep 27, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIn an era in which political commentary is so often characterized by shallow sound-bites and shrill hyperbole, Dr. Ronald Walters’ scholarly insights helped shape nearly every advancement of black political empowerment of the last century. In the mold of fellow...
