Passing It On. It’s Life’s Only Slam Dunk!
Something about springtime’s NCAA basketball tournament always gets me thinking about life in general: the way things end for some, the way it goes…
Let’s Have Fairness for CTA’s Dorval Carter
Enough of Blame-the-Black-Guy for Covid’s Troublesome Aftermath One Black appointed official whom I deeply respect has come under fire – unfairly, in my opinion…
Now What? Time to Resist the Supreme Court’s Attack on Affirmative Action…
This decision is wacky. For reasons more political than judicial, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Harvard and the U. of North Carolina…
Stop the Bleeding
The medical protocol for dressing a wound is to wash your hands, stop the bleeding, clean the injured area, and apply antibiotics. The same…
TNT – Three College Classmates Explode Myths About Violence
“Six killed and thirty-one others shot in Chicago’s most violent weekend in 2022,” screamed the Chicago Sun-Times. There were over 622 shootings and 157…
Censorship – A to Z (Beware the Effort to Remove Truth-telling Books about Race in America)
There is a move afoot to ban books and suppress stories that deal with race. Education writer Julie West Johnson called out this alarming…
Stability, Civility & Fragility…
It’s personal. The violence and the chaos, the shouting and the crying, whether on Chicago streets or D.C.’s Capitol Hill, is not just the…
Now Hear These! Our True Concerns Revealed by the Media Maverick, Black Cowboys and, Best of All, August’s Answer…
Writing in N’DIGO last month, that ‘Maverick Media Maven‘, Hermene Hartman, reported on a Black female journalist who complained that a white editor of…
Been There Done That! – It’s Time for Black Builders to Position for Prosperity!
It’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN the Biden Infrastructure Plan – perhaps in reduced form – will become law. At that moment…
Eyes On The Prize
While we’re dancing the Pandemic Polka and watching the Trump Tax Return Tango, it would be easy to ignore the Black Business Ballet now…
Gaslight Fight – “Don’t Be Bamboozled by GOP Voting ‘Reforms”
A knock-down, drag-out battle over voting rights – and the future of our Democracy – is being waged this year between Republicans who still…
RAOUL’S RICHES: Unmasking the Myth of White Supremacy
Black playwright August Wilson once observed that “Those who would deny Black Americans their culture would also deny them their history and the inherent…