Detroit, MI – When you hail from the Motor City with a grandmother who sang the blues, and a cousin who was one of the original Motown Temptations, music just kind of rests in your spirit and organically becomes who you are. Pianist, singer, songwriter and producer, Reggie Braxton has aptly honed such impactful melodious […]
Felicia Davis
America’s Elite Colleges Can Lead on Reparations by Partnering with Black Colleges
By Felicia M. Davis – As the list of higher education institutions apologizing for their role in the slave trade grows it is time investing in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) institutions is prioritized. Democratic presidential candidates increasingly acknowledge the need to study the question of reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates fastidiously establishes “The Case for […]
Proposed EPA Roll-Backs Have Air of Injustice
President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork in the tunnel with one direction pitch black and a bright light at the end of the other. The choice seems so obvious and yet […]
Vivica A. Fox Hosts & Howard Hewett to Perform at DNC Watch Party Celebrating the Black Vote
Influential guests joining Laborers’ District Council of Philadelphia & Vicinity and Chair of the Darby Township (PA) Democratic Party, Richard R. Womack Jr, are: Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL); Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman “G. K.” Butterfield (D-NC); Assistant Democratic Leader, Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC); woman’s rights leader, Melanie L. Campbell; civil rights leader, Barbara Arnwine, Esq; […]
Vivica A. Fox Hosts & Howard Hewett to Perform at DNC Watch Party Celebrating the Black Vote
Influential guests joining Laborers’ District Council of Philadelphia & Vicinity and Chair of the Darby Township (PA) Democratic Party, Richard R. Womack Jr, are: Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL); Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman “G. K.” Butterfield (D-NC); Assistant Democratic Leader, Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC); woman’s rights leader, Melanie L. Campbell; civil rights leader, Barbara Arnwine, Esq; […]
Statement on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Felicia Davis – More than a decade ago I wrote that, African Americans are disproportionately affected by power plant emissions because we are concentrated in large urban centers, suffer higher rates of asthma and share a historical bond with the developing world where climate change threatens already weak and overburdened economies. From this perspective, power […]
#Ferguson and Gaza-Awakening a Sleeping Giant?
By Felicia M Davis (@feliciamdavis or fmd@dogonvillage.com )-Last night I went to sleep pleased that my daughter, a mature Howard University student, traveled to Ferguson to stand for justice. She arrived safely with four friends and attended what she referred to as the usual “Negro Church Rally”—talking, singing then marching. Later that night, and long […]
Letter Urges AFSCME President, Lee Saunders, Not to Punish Struggling HBCU Students Due to Opposing Political Views with the Koch Brothers
The letter below was written in response to articles on TheRoot.com and The Washington Post about the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) accepting money from companies owned by the infamous Koch brothers. It appears that The Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries made a $25 million donation to UNCF. Of course, UNCF accepted the contribution […]
As we prepare for the unveiling of MLK Monument it’s time to answer Dr. King’s final interrogatory: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Felicia Davis – The first national monument to a descendent of former slaves, human rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will stand between two iconic memorials, founding father and slave owner Thomas Jefferson and slave emancipator Abraham Lincoln. As we prepare for the August 28th unveiling it is time that we answer Dr. […]