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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 […]

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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; […]

Poll Perjury by Lucius Gantt

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; […]

Poll Perjury by Lucius Gantt

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 […]

Poll Perjury by Lucius Gantt

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. […]

Raising the Deby Ceiling…

By Felicia Davis – When the Senate Majority Leader walks out of a meeting with the President of the United States, especially with the economic future of our nation on the line, it should be considered an act of treason. Republican leadership is more confused and infantile than their tea party neophytes. After driving the […]