Commentary

By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a police officer on Tuesday, September 20, in Charlotte, North Carolina.  The officer, dressed in civilian clothing, said that Mr. Scott had a gun and that he did not follow verbal orders to put his hands up.  While there is videotape that documents the interaction…

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By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com “DEPLORABLE (adj) – Causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad. (Dictionary.com)” If you accept television pundit opinions, Hillary Clinton did a very bad thing.  She called a portion of Donald Trump supporters “DEPLORABLES!”  More accurately, she said, “To be grossly generalistic, you…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the selected checklist of black organizations, groups and individuals GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has flatly refused to speak to, reach out to or even acknowledge exist. They include: The NAACP, the National Urban League, The National Association of Black Journalists, Black…

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Dear Cultural Coach: Q: I have always attended black high schools. This fall I will attend a predominantly white university. I am afraid people won’t like me and I won’t fit in. Do you have advice? READY FOR LIFE Dear Ready: A: The most culturally competent people typically are those who have lived abroad or…

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By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all is not well in classrooms and school districts around the country.  While every school district is not facing challenges, many urban school districts – where the majority of African American and…

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2 killed at Brooklyn J’Ouvert Festival Is the parade more important than Black life itself? By Monica Peters All things were peaceful during the wee morning hours of Labor Day during Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert festival, the popular pre-dawn celebration and parade that precedes its daytime West Indian Carnival. …Until gunshots rang out. Four innocent persons were…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Nate Parker  (DFree / Shutterstock.com) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Robert Mitchum, Rip Torn, Nick Nolte, Hugh Grant, Roman Polanski, John Travolta, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, Rob Lowe, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Allen, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Downey, Jr., and of course everybody’s favorites– Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. They all have…

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By Linda Wallace While I was seated on a panel of prospective jurors, the man behind me said three words that made everybody, including the defendant, squirm. “I am prejudiced,” he calmly told the judge. His Honor asked the young white man to repeat the statement. “I am prejudiced,” the man said again, his eyes…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Copyright: EPG_EuroPhotoGraphics By Minister Rodney Muhammad The cry “Our Lives Matter, Our Votes Count!” came out of the recent national NAACP national convention that addressed two hot button themes facing us this election year. All lives should matter. But if that were truly the case, the NAACP wouldn’t need to exist. The nation’s…

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Hillary Clinton is doing what Democrats should have been doing all along, and that’s looking and sounding — and, if given the chance, acting — like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This means going big, big, big and fully using government to radically ramp up new programs and initiatives to tackle everything from…

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