A searing indictment of the Democratic Party and a compelling call to action for the entire progressive movement, Brown is the New White, by Steve Phillips (www.brownisthenewwhite.com/), takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color in America and reveals how the past has created current conditions that have revolutionary implications for […]
A Third-Term Democrat? Hillary Clinton Battles History
By Heidi M Przybyla, USA Today – Hillary Clinton likes to tell voters what she’s not doing: running for President Obama’s third term. That’s to downplay what she is doing: asking voters to pick a Democrat to occupy the Oval Office for 12 consecutive years. Americans have agreed to do that just once in the […]
Black Youth Vote! Hustles Hard to Keep the Swagger Going with iThink2012 Campaign
Washington, DC – Determined to keep the swagger going among their peers, Black Youth Vote! (BYV!), the youth program of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), is hustling hard as they transition their iThink 2012 Campaign efforts from voter registration to voter education and mobilization for the last days of the 2012 Presidential […]
Race Card Romney – By Lucius Gantt
The Gantt Report -If President Barack Obama wants to win his 2012 reelection effort he should start fighting for it! By now, everybody knows the President got his clock cleaned by a modern day Uncle Remus dipped in flour. Romney told more fairy tales and fables than Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson during the first […]
Bernard Hoyes’ “Seven Paintings, a Story in Performance” Wows Spectators at LA County’s Ford Amphitheatre
Los Angeles – Visual icon Bernard Stanley Hoyes wowed an enthusiastic house recently with his “Seven Paintings, a Story in Performance” at the Ford Amphitheatre. Included as part of the venue’s ever-popular dance series, Hoyes’ production proved to be magical as his art literally jumped off the canvas and came to life in an interdisciplinary […]
Show Me Your Passbook
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux – I am glad that President Barack Obama has a sense of humor about the birthers. I don’t, and I am disgusted that Donald Trump, lacking in both sense and scruples, was able to push the President to releasing his “long form” birth certificate. Now that the birth certificate has been […]
Is Revenge the Answer?
By Carl DeWayne West (TBT News Service) – First, let me be one of the millions of well wishers thanking President Barack Obama for putting an end to a horrible chapter in America during my lifetime. I salute him and his decorated team of advisors. I’d like to especially thank our military that executed a […]
Obama and Big Things – Commentary
By Lucius Gantt – President Barack Obama rapped the 2011 State of the Union address recently. He didn’t say “big things pop it and little things stop it” but he did say Americans do big things. The President solidified his standing as one of the best Presidential orators in history in his speech but he […]