Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#18) – If there was any doubt that middle and working class Americans are paying more than their fair share in the deficit reduction battles, the budget cuts recently enacted to prevent a government shutdown make it absolutely clear. Everything from Pell grants for college tuition to heating assistance for […]
Commentary
Is U.S. Ready to Have Billionaire CEO as President?
Ted Santos (TBT News Service) – In 1992, Ross Perot ran for President of the US, earning 19% of the votes before dropping out and coming back. If he had won, would we have experienced this economic crisis? Or would he have used his business savvy to avert some of the financial challenges? Many people […]
Hobbs’ Monday Musings: Osama Bin Laden is Killed/Royal Wedding and a Funeral/Obama tours Alabama
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS KILLED “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…a time to kill—a time to heal” Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 At long last, American forces cornered—and killed—Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the rise of Al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. The politics of Bin Laden’s death […]
The Misconception of Justice: Osama Bin Laden’s Death
What was known to me as the world’s most elusive game of “Hide and Seek” has now come to an end. On Sunday May 1st, President Barack Obama declared “Osama Bin Laden a murderer of thousands is dead” as people here and abroad began to celebrate the death of the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist […]
Julianne Malveaux: Women in prison – what about the children?
By Julianne Malveaux – There are more than 200,000 women who are currently incarcerated, 115,000 in federal or state prisons and 99,000 in local jails. Nearly one million women are on probation — representing 26 percent of those on probation; 98,000 are on parole. Women’s incarceration has grown by more than 800 percent in the […]
Black America’s Survival: Hinging on Group Success vs Individual Success
In spite of the numerous blatant and subliminal social obstacles that the Black community has faced in the past and continues to face, a remarkable number of African Americans have risen to highly-esteemed statuses in the professions, arts, letters, professional sports and the entertainment field in the last 100 years. Within the past 10 years, […]
Ben Laden Down, Gadaffi Ducked
By Lucius Gantt – President Barack Obama has announced that Osama Ben Laden was killed by Navy Seals in an attack on a Pakistani mansion compound after following a Ben Laden courier to the million dollar home and waiting for days and months until the terrorist leader surfaced and could be shot. Ben Laden’s death […]
Misplaced Priorities in the Age of Carnival Barkers
By Deven D. Anderson – Yes, it is true President Barack Obama was born here in the United States of America. Shall I repeat for those who didn’t hear it for the first, second, or fifty-leventh time? This morning President Barack Obama confirmed and presented evidence to solve one of the greatest mysteries in American […]
Affirmative Action of a Different Kind
By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – Barely minutes after President Obama trumped Donald Trump on the idiotic “Birther” issue, Trump side-stepped his failure by asking to see President Obama’s undergraduate grades from Columbia and Harvard Law School. For Obama supporters, before getting too outraged please consider that such has been a fair area of inquiry before, […]