We face the very real prospect that life as we knew just a few short weeks-ago will not return. According to some scientists and futurists, the nature of COVID-19 and our failure to get ahead of it, means it will be with us indefinitely. If that is indeed the case, we face a new way […]
MoreBottom line. Monetary Policy had reached its limits in response to this financial crisis. It is time for Congress to take clear-eyed, focus on creating targeted, well-funded fiscal policy actions to benefit regular citizens as well as financial markets and institutions. Let’s not make the same mistake that we did in 2008. Families, individuals, small […]
More“ANNISTON, Ala. — Not long before local leaders decided, in the words of one of them, that federal health officials “didn’t know what they were doing” with their plan to quarantine novel coronavirus patients in town, a doctor here set out in a biohazard suit to stage a one-man protest along the highway with a […]
More“Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told the Conservative Political Action Conference [CPAC] that the Coronavirus was the ‘hoax of the day,’” conceived of and perpetuated by a hostile media establishment. During a Congressional hearing on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to disagree with the chief of staff. (@TheHill.com) While the U.S. […]
MorePlease let’s get clear on this. Social programs, government programs that benefit all of us are “socialist” by definition. It is not Communism. It is not collective ownership or anything of the sort. We are a nation of people that comprise a “society” to which we all belong. Democratic socialism simply means that we the […]
Morehttp://www.missvirginiamovie.com/about Modern black history circa 2003-2004. “Miss Virginia” is the story of the power of people. It is about the power that being sick and tired of being sick and tired can generate and how that power led to positive change for students in the Washington, D.C. school district. Good movie. Great message. (Yes, the […]
MoreP-MV. This is the formula for momentum. Momentum(P) = (m)mass x (v)velocity. Black history is our history–not someone else’s. We are responsible for preserving and lifting up our story. It is our story to tell, and it is our individual and collective responsibility to know, own and share it. We have depended on others to […]
MoreIt seems that Buttigieg is the only Democrat in this race with the common sense to move toward Obama who is reportedly one of if not the most respected Presidents in the nation’s history.
Morehttp://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men This piece by Los Angeles Times staff writer, Amina Kahn, raises serious questions about how we might characterize the actions of U.S. authorities at all levels of government toward black, brown and native people. Here is how the United Nations defines the term “genocide” Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of […]
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