Month: August 2019

Opinions

Has the President Declared War on the Poor and People of Color? The AME Church’s Response to the verbal attacks on ‘the Squad” and the City of Baltimore

August 7, 2019 Carma Henry 0

     The President’s racist and sexist attacks on Representatives Ilana Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib are vile, vicious and unprecedented verbal violence against American citizens and Congressional leaders by a sitting occupant of the Oval Office. The President’s remarks about these extraordinary women were not only disrespectful and destructive; they demean the office that he holds. […]

Opinions

There is Not a Racist Bone in my body

August 7, 2019 Carma Henry 0

     Send her back is a turning point, “With Trump’s naked hatred and cruelty captured on live television, and along with it, so was the seething anger of the hard-core Trump base. The whole nation saw in dramatic fashion that Trump voters understood his meaning perfectly well and watched them not just agree with it but also amplify it, with as ugly and hate-curdled a chant as one could imagine.” […]

National News

All12 Federal Appropriations Committees Adopt Norton’s Minority Ad Spending Measure

August 7, 2019 Carma Henry 0

     D.C. Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton told NNPA Newswire on July 26, that each of the 12 federal Appropriations Committees have adopted language from her Government Advertising Equity Accountability Act [HR 2576], which mandates all agencies include in their annual budget request to Congress the amount of money they spend to advertise in minority-owned media outlets. […]

National News

Back-to-Back Outbreaks of Gun Violence it El Paso and Dayton Stun Country

August 7, 2019 Carma Henry 0

     In a country that has become nearly numb to men with guns opening fire in schools, at concerts and in churches, the back-to-back bursts of gun violence in less than 24 hours were enough to leave the public stunned and shaken. The shootings ground the 2020 presidential campaign to a halt, reignited a debate on gun control and called into question the increasingly angry words directed at immigrants on the southern border in recent weeks by right-wing pundits and President Trump. […]