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Poor and Low Income People Need to Vote
“There were fifteen Presidential debates in 2020,” thunders the Rev. William Barber, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A...
May 14, 20243 min read
25 Years After Columbine, Gun Industry Greed and Lawmakers' Cowardice Still Prevail Over America's Grief and Outrage
“When the Columbine High School shooting happened twenty-five years ago, it was an unimaginable tragedy. Now, as gun violence continues...
May 11, 20243 min read
Never-married Black Women Have 8 Cents in Wealth for Every Dollar Held by White Males
As the November general election nears, many economic analysts have publicly pondered why so many likely voters are not impressed with...
May 10, 20243 min read
Cleaner Transportation Fuels Can Save Lives
One of the biggest challenges in communities of color are higher rates of asthma and respiratory related illnesses. I know this firsthand...
May 2, 20242 min read
Mainstream Media Joins Pack of Racist Supporters of DA Sandra Doorley
We need to pay very, very close attention to the role that the racially insensitive, white-supremacist-based-mainstream-media is playing...
May 2, 20243 min read
Supreme Court Addresses Homelessness: The issue is key in a Sundown Town, Where Blacks Couldn't Live
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking on the issue of homelessness, which affects large numbers of Black people nationwide because, as a...
Apr 30, 20243 min read
Young’uns are Not Automatically Qualified to Lead, Especially When Children’s Lives are At Stake at RCSD
Two young folks in the Rochester City School District (RCSD) who are posing as leaders are literally off the chain. One is Isaiah...
Apr 29, 20243 min read
Stupid is as Stupid Does. C'mon People!
In March of 2018, after 25 years of doing so, I submitted my final Blackonomics column to the members of the National Newspaper...
Apr 26, 20244 min read
Heroines of Democracy Declare “America in Emergency”
Black women leaders of national civil rights and voting rights organizations have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to...
Apr 25, 20243 min read
Association of Black Cardiologists’ “We Are The Faces” Campaign Unveils New Videos for Black Maternal Health Week
In celebration of Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17, 2024) and April’s Minority Health Month, the Association of Black...
Apr 21, 20242 min read
The Battle Over Social Security
The Black community as a whole can never afford to lose empathy for one another. One of the core challenges in maintaining social justice...
Apr 17, 20244 min read
Black Maternal Health Week: My personal maternal health journey as a Black woman.
One can only imagine the journey we experience as we travel from the protection and covering of the womb; thus, surfacing in this...
Apr 17, 20244 min read
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