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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton – 1887 It’s hard to believe it was 28 years ago that black Americans were torn between […]

Eighteen years ago I had a little spot off Pennsylvania Avenue extended in Capitol Heights, Maryland. I worked for a telecommunications company as an operator. Not sure how it works now, but back in those […]

Last year hundreds of protesters gathered on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to demand that a racist nail salon owner and her den be shut down. In addition they encourage African Americans to stop giving their […]

“Oh say can you see, if it’s left up to me, blacks, reds and brown skin, Oh you’ll never ever win. You can get on your knee’s, you can even say please, But respect mein […]

Photo from AP News From our earliest recollections in elementary school we all learned that that our country was named after an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci is credited with proving that Brazil and […]

Black Soldiers Digging in For Battle, Versilia Italy 1944 I slowly turned over and could see through the haze of sleep my momma in the kitchen. We lived in a cabin with two rooms. In […]

On the 7500 block of South Stewart Avenue in Chicago, Mothers Against Senseless Killings had organized a neighborhood watch. During the summer for the last four years volunteers sat on that corner because too many […]

The Protection Of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act (PLCAA) was signed into law by George Bush on October 25, 2005. Rosa Parks had died the day before on the 24th and the world was waking […]