While reflecting on the struggles and epic journey that has resulted in the Government of the United States enacting an official Federal holiday in recognition of the work and contribution of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. there remains many ironies, paradoxes and insidious resistance. From this writer’s local …
Black GOP Between Rock and Hard Place…
GOP presidential nomination politics has always been virtually beyond black participation except for the occasional cameo way back in the day. More recently however, no black political cameos are sought, and are categorically not desired by the Republican Party’s field of hopefuls, seeking the party nod. As a political matter …
Odious Political Machinations in Paradise USA…
The ongoing saga of financial mismanagement and political corruption in the United States Virgin Islands continues to boggle the mind, as each day reveals additional damning information. This morning, Tuesday December 13, 2011, a provocative and politically explosive letter was read over the airways of a popular Virgin Islands radio …
Trouble in Paradise USA…
Under the calming facade of leaning palm trees, private beaches, transparent turquoise blue waters surrounding the tropical islands of the Virgin Islands, a lurking political tsunami is now in motion. The United States Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas), in conjunction with the other islands of the …
GOP Black Activist and Presidential Politics…
With the advent of Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas, into the Grand Old Party (GOP) presidential sweepstakes, the nomination process is apparently boiling down into a two man race. Interestingly enough, Perry, an evangelical conservative Republican and darling of the “Tea Party,” was a member of the Democratic Party …
GOP ACTIVIST ENGAGES BLACK DEMS POLITICAL CONFUSION…
The escalating black American political controversy that is orbiting President Barack Obama’s leadership style is now raging, following the remarks by comedian Steve Harvey that Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are “Uncle Toms.” Specifically, Harvey was critiquing the Poverty Tour organized by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, as well as …
MSNBC: Black Agenda Disinformation?
The ongoing black political saga in America was animated to greater heights in this 2012 election season by a controversy that was ignited on cable TV with the glib tongues and quick political wits of Professor Cornel West and Rev. Al Sharpton, on a recent MSNBC Show hosted by Ed …
Black Political Revolution?
By Wolde Amanuel The unfolding political and social upheavals occurring in the “Middle East” and North Africa are classic examples of how fraught, dynamic and interdependent the state of the world is today. The popular insurrections animating the Arab world began in Tunisia following the self-mutilation of a young man …
New Political Dispensation in Harlem!
The anticlimactic censure of veteran Congressman Charles Rangel by the U.S. House of Representatives is without question a game changing event in the politics of Harlem, going forward. The end of the forty-year legislative career lived out by the Dean of New York’s Congressional delegation may be lurking in the …
Merry Christmas To All…
The Christmas “Yule tide” season is upon us and all Christians in particular celebrate the birth of Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, more than two (2) thousand years ago. The epic birth of this extraordinary and controversial figure explicitly sets forth the foundation and ethics that embody Christianity. Christmas has …
