June 2020 Archive

Obama’s popularity continues to rise amid Trump’s rhetoric
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — With unrestrained vitriol and the stunning lack of leadership emanating from the White House on an almost daily basis, the ever-rising popularity of ...
The Black Press: Charity begins at home!
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Editorialist On the rise to stardom, they look to us Hell, it’s because of us that they have risen to stardom When they get in trouble, they find us When they ...
Add one more name
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In his poem “No Man is an Island,” John Donne wrote, “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” I’ve always been ...
Andrea Harris and the fight for minority business
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Andrea Harris was not well-known, but she should have been. She was the co-founder of the North Carolina Institute of Minority Business Development, an advocate ...
Many hands created the Frankenstein monster Derek Chauvin
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist There was a loud warning thirty years before Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death about how cops like Chauvin are turned into Frankenstein monsters. In ...
The murder of George Floyd was a lynching in broad daylight
By Jesse Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck. They watched for eight minutes and 46 seconds, with Floyd unresponsive ...
OWN, TV ONE and BET ignore functions of the Black Press too
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As a child growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama in the 1950’s, my only connections with the national Black community was the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper and JET ...
Beyond protesting: How do we stop savage inequities?
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer As worldwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by indicted fired cops continue, civil rights leaders and Black-run legal organizations, Black elected officials and social justice ...
Women work longer, sleep less due to COVID-19
By Sunita Sohrabji Contributing Writer (Ethnic Media Services) — Women around the world are facing a shadow crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as their workloads for both paid and unpaid labor increase ...
Black and Blue don’t match
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer NNPA NEWSWIRE — African Americans hadn’t stopped grieving over the assassination of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia when a video surfaced out of Minnesota, showing a police ...

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