Photo caption: Tamika Mallory Some people first saw civil rights’ activist Tamika Mallory when she was one of four leaders of the 2017 Women’s March. Her activism hardly began there. From her teen years, the now 43-year-old activist was part of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. In 2013, she became NAN’s youngest executive director. …
We are well into the computer age, and we have far, FAR to go in it. Today there are things that exist we wouldn’t have thought of in a trillion years a relatively short time ago. Along with this age has come a “speeding up” of existence; things seem to be unfolding faster than usual, …
Another election year is rolling around and people of color, and other voters who have been de facto disenfranchised since the birth of this nation, face the quadrennial dilemma of having to hold our noses and cast a vote for the lesser of two evils. For me, having to vote for Joe Biden is as …
“Go Down, Moses, way down in Egypt land. Tell old Pharaoh, to let my people go” “Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus” My point in lifting up the lyrics of these two Negro spirituals is to demonstrate that the lyrics are in code. They are veiled, they are disguised, so white oppressors would …
Part one of three While there is no evidence to prove it, my impression of people who live in Paris is that they are more relaxed and at peace in their everyday lives than most Americans. Perhaps it’s influenced by the routine of wine with (and between) every meal. Who knows? But for whatever reason, …
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Photo caption: Central American migrants outside of a Chicago Police Station. There’s a lot of manufactured justification in play for allowing refugees to engulf the City of Chicago. Much of this manufactured justification is associated with a narrative that Chicago is a “sanctuary city,” established by Mayor Harold Washington. Here’s the first thing to know: …
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The United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big Three automobile manufacturers – Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis haven’t been able to agree on worker compensation, and no wonder. The UAW leader, Shawn Fein, is fiercely committed that workers should be better compensated and should recoup some of the concessions they made to manufacturers when …
We are living in interesting times. Due to a number of issues, it appears that people are increasingly anticipating an “end times” outcome. There are a number of reasons for this; the proliferation of attacks on citizens by other citizens via school shootings, road rage and more; the escalation of disasters related to climate change; …
We left off last week with a discussion of the false belief that America is a Christian nation. We presented the evidence that the founders of this nation were not Christians in the usual sense but were Deists. A Deist is a person that believes the creator created all things, but that the creator will …
Photo caption: A BOY AND a girl stand in front of a makeshift memorial near where Tanaja Stokes, 8, was fatally shot and her 7-year-old cousin shot in the head while they jumped rope on Aug. 10, 2010, intheir Far South Side neighborhood. Part Two of Two I suspect that it is not racial lines …
