[caption id="attachment_12500" align="alignleft" width="144"] Derek Joy[/caption] The politics of greed pollutes the political oxygen By Derek Joy True ‘dat. The media, Congress and the American people are talking as the dust settles and the smoke clears in the aftermath of the government shutdown. The end result is an estimated $24-billion loss to the American economy. And for what? Tea Party Republicans a ...

He is now gutting the new Common Core standard, and abandoning the standardized testing associated with the program. ...

It is time for Washington’s NFL team to stop using a racial slur and to finally change its name.” ...

Believe it or not, President Obama’s decision to finally stand up to Tea-publicans – a Republican Party hijacked by Right-wing Tea Party zealots – in the latest standoff over the Affordable Care Act and the debt ceiling was the easy part. ...

Former Congressmen J.C. Watts, Jr., and Ron Dellums, along with National Medical Association President Michael A. LeNoir, M.D. are leading a newly formed Health Disparities Working Group ...

Ever since President Obama’s election as the country’s 44th President, his voice has been escalated and Black community voices have been somewhat silenced. ...

To show they can govern responsibly, they must now find how to offer constructive engagement in the national dialogue to gain compromise on the course of policies. ...

Driven by its reactionary Tea Party faction and the Right’s newest demagogue, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the GOP tried to use forcing a shutdown of the government and the debt-default threat to hijack the democratic process – to effectively repeal Obamacare and destroy the authority of the president. ...

Remembering George Orwell’s 1984 in 2013 ...

[caption id="attachment_12473" align="alignleft" width="144"] Julianne Malveaux[/caption] A slave to slavery comparisons By Julianne Malveaux The brilliant surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson is out of order and out of control when he compares the Affordable Care Act to slavery. As a physician, he must know how many people lack health care, and how much work this administration had done to right that wrong. As a he ...