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Will Blacks Become the Priority Minority Politically in 2017?
By Roger CaldwellHappy New Year and what will Black Folks do differently in America in 2017?In 2016, Black on Black violence has reached epidemic rates, and our children, seniors, and women are not safe, when they walk down the streets in our community. Not only is there crime and violence in the Black neighborhoods, but the police are killing unarmed Black men, even though they are not an imminent threat or danger.
Michelle Obama’s fashion influence rivaled Jackie Kennedy’s
By JOCELYN NOVECKAP National WriterNEW YORK – The morning after Michelle Obama’s big speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2012, in which she argued passionately for a second term for her husband, designer Tracy Reese’s phone was ringing. And ringing.Mrs. Obama’s powerfully delivered speech had attracted much attention – but these phone calls were about her dress. A shimmering sleeveless sheath in rose and silvery gray, it was pretty universally considered a fashion slam dunk.
Final chapter? Hardly. Ask my grandchildren
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARYIts official! Donald J. Trump is now the 45th President-elect of the United States of America, and we can begin the countdown. We only need the approval of Congress for a done deal.So the world as we knew it has forever changed. Henceforth, we can be grateful for the elimination of suspense and get down to the day-to-day reality of living- while-being-black in America.And just what will that look like?
Law signed by Obama can be catalyst for more focus on English-speaking Caribbean
By MOHAMED HAMALUDINAmerican foreign policy has been woefully inadequate towards the Anglophone or English-speaking Caribbean, an area characterized by more than half a century of political stability, except for a couple of blips in Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.Washington has traditionally pursued a relatively hands-off policy towards the region, in deference to the British, the former colonial overlords, pointing up a contradiction in our international relations in which we have been...
What black people can do now
By JEFFREY SWAINBlack people are too gifted to let one election hinder our progress. We’ve survived slavery, segregation and suppression. Nothing has stopped us. We’ve always fought for ourselves, always faced the reality and always forged ahead. What is this talk of despair? We are a strong people of class, purpose and achievement. Here’s what we should do now:First, think entrepreneurially. Open businesses that serve our communities and stop wasting money. Dollars must circulate in black businesses.
For New Year, change your life, start by changing your lifestyle
By LUCIUS GANTTI hope Gantt Report readers had a pleasant, peaceful and joyous holiday season.Don’t get caught up in the end-of-year parties and celebrations so much that the festive activities cloud your minds about what the future will be like for you, your families and your communities.America and the world’s other imperialist empires are not great again – they are greedy again, oppressive again, nationalistic again, and in many ways, colonial again and racist again.But don’t worry, and...
Like second class citizens in the new America
By CALIBE THOMPSONAs I listened to an attractive, bleached blonde millennial TV pundit by the name of Tomi Lahren in an exchange with talk show host Trevor Noah, I thought – she is what is wrong with America. I have to say, Noah’s becoming very sharp in his interviewing skills.
I am ashamed of Cubans in Miami
By JEFFREY SWAINWhile I was in Atlanta a few weeks ago, Fidel Castro died and Cuban Americans poured into the streets to celebrate – a sin and a poor lesson to children. That night, we taught children to relish a loss of life; and Cuban children, interviewed on television, showed that they had only been told half- truths about the Cuban Revolution.
Cuban exiles see glimmer of hope in Castro’s funeral
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICONAssociated PressMIAMI – In the heart of Miami’s Little Havana, Cuban exile Armando Garcia said Sunday’s funeral of Fidel Castro granted neither simple closure nor optimism for immediate change, but was a glimmer of hope for democracy in Cuba.Garcia, 76, a retired electronics salesman who left Cuba in 1963, sipped espresso as others smoked cigars at the Versailles restaurant, a hub for exiles who fled political oppression or other hardships since Castro’s communist...
Gun Justice Makes Right Turn
By ROGER CALDWELLThere are 350,000 guns owned by citizens in America, and the majority of the owners are white. This is a statistical fact, and the majority of police in America are white, and they carry a gun every day.
Sumner Mississippi comes to Charleston: the case of Walter Scott
By DON JONESThe deadly confrontation between Walter Lamar Scott, a black forklift operator, and Charleston police officer Michael Slager began as a daytime traffic stop. It was April 4, 2015, Scott’s brake light on his 1991 Mercedes was out. A cell phone video taken by Feidin Sanatana shows Slager walking up to Scott’s car, talking with him a moment and then returning to his patrol car.
Black stockings left hanging from trees at a SC university
By JEFFREY COLLINSAssociated PressCOLUMBIA, S.C. – A group of artists said it left black nylon stockings resembling human figures hanging from trees outside a South Carolina university hall to protest that the building is named for a post-Civil War-era racist.The 18 stockings filled with dirt were found Sunday morning outside Tillman Hall, with a sign reading “Tillman’s Legacy” taped over the plaque with the building’s name, according to a police report from Winthrop University in Rock Hill.A...
Like it or not, America is stuck with Trump as the next president
By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN‘The tens of thousands of people who have been staging demonstrations against the result of the Nov. 8 presidential vote are giving vent to the anger that many stunned Americans have been feeling over the election of Donald J. Trump as the next leader of the nation.But while it is an understandable reaction, it is coming much too late.The protests should have taken place after Trump emerged as the nominee of the Republican party.
What President Trump means to African Americans
By JEFFREY DEAN SWAINDonald Trump is now President of the United States of America. Black Americans are not afraid of him but they are cognizant of the pattern of anti-black behaviors he demonstrated during the campaign cycle. For that, he should not be forgiven and he should be watched. I do not want or expect non-blacks to understand what we feel. We have collective memory of moments in American history where the language he used throughout his march toward Washington cost black lives.
Now that we are officially “Other”…
By CALIBE THOMPSONI am a passionate advocate of the movement to flip the election outcome. Last week, I shared one of the many posts documenting the troubling aftershocks of Trump’s election.
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