Opinion

In my mild-mannered secret identity, I usher for a great metropolitan theater establishment. Step in a phone booth and emerge...

”In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a mother or father who will attend...

This column continues my five-year investigative reporting of a city government that stands for itself, not its citizens. This government,...

Whether we are aware of it or not, most of us hold values and ideas that are in direct contradiction...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been a longstanding supporter of the basic tenets of the Civil Rights Movement. During the...

A March 4 editorial in the Philadelphia Tribune Does the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, truly...

One of the important features of history is date sequences. They identify occasions of events, including place, circumstances and people...

“One hundred years later , the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro...

Wonder what school kids in Mexico read every year at this time when American students are handed hogwash about Texan...

I’m gon’ be disappointed in any Black folks who watch that Royal Wedding. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m all...

On Tuesday night, February 22, 2011, at Sabathani Community Center, State Representatives Hayden and Champion sponsored a reception and town...

If you work for a living, what happened in Wisconsin is a good thing on lots of levels. There was...

I offer my apology for the Council on Black Minnesotans (CBM) board members who decided to walk out on community...

For many months in this column, we have addressed the accelerating rate surrounding the demise and collapse of Black institutions....

Our state legislators have just finished debating the details of a law that would open a new path or way...

“Someone told a lie a long time ago, a lie that said that everything ‘White’ was good, and everything ‘Black’...

Trying My Best Frank Erickson When it comes to our government’s exported violence, their words do not coincide with their...

Among the many things that the new governor, Mark Dayton, has on his agenda is the decision to support a...

H.I.T. Hodges Investigation team I would like to thank everyone for your responses to my columns. I really value your...

Through My Eyes Rod Edwards Censorship, whether by “our” side or “their” side, is still an infringement on freedom of...