December 2017 Archive

Conyers resigns from Congress calling for “complete disclosure”
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a founding member of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus and the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, retired from ...
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‘Songs of My People: 25 Years Later’ photo exhibit kicks off at Dillard
Brainfood, The Dillard University President’s Lecture Series presents “Songs of My People: 25 Years Later,” an exhibition that shares the visions of 18 contemporary photographers including Jamel Shabazz, L. Kasimu ...
Hundreds rallied for Meek Mill, but what about the rest?
By Lynette Monroe NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist Recently, hundreds of fans and supporters held a rally outside a Philadelphia courthouse, chanting for Robert Rihmeek Williams a.k.a. Meek Mill, to be released. ...
I smell smoke
So let me get this straight — I am supposed to believe that Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is so concerned about misspending by elected officials in majority-Black New Orleans ...
Independent Police Monitor questions NOPD’s use of Tasers
As the troubled New Orleans Police Department continues to implement a federally mandated consent decree that seeks to raise the law enforcement agency up to federal standards for constitutional policing, ...
It’s about the power
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Let’s begin with the truth—something rare in Washington, DC. While sexual harassment/assault may result in physical injury, it is almost certainly, damaging to the ...
The American plutocracy gets its immoral tax bill
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson said that about slavery, but he might ...
Trump’s race-based view of monuments
Not long after the violence over Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump went to great lengths to declare the beauty and importance of Confederate monuments strewn across ...
The Trump trick bag-stacking the Courts
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Two people reported to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on November 27, both expecting to lead the bureau. Leandra English, who had been chief ...
When ‘the race card’ is barely mentioned
By The Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Guest Columnist Whenever African Americans attribute some injustice to race, the backlash is swift. We are accused of playing “the race card,” as a tool ...

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