It is worth noting that recounting the horrors of slavery, remembering heroes of the civil rights movement, along with a few 19th and 20th century inventors, athletes, and entertainers, in no way sufficiently pays proper tribute to the totality of our past. Only by passing down our complete stories and sharing the fullness of our heritage do we properly honor our ancestors and history, a history that long predates the 17th century in North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. We were Africans long before becoming New Yorkers, Jamaicans, Brazilians, Haitians, Cubans, or Puerto Ricans.
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Letter to Editor
Congress continues to relentlessly push immigration policies that’ll make Black Americans poorer.
Hopeful Black folk must realize Judge Brown-Jackson’s rise to the nation’s highest court is not the rising tide that will lift all Black boats. She is just the newest member of the exclusive ‘first Black’ fraternity which exists to promote the illusion of Black progress, power, and racial equality.
We Are the Hope and Dreams of Slaves
The Sunshine Protection Act, which cleared the Senate by unanimous consent last month, would make Daylight Saving Time permanent across the United States.
Change in the Landscape
America despite its valor and glory remains enthralled in a role of foreign aid and domestic policy which punishes its own people from whom all foreign aid flows. Yes, America deliberately fails to address the social, economic, educational, mental health, and environmental safety needs of its own people. But why does this deliberate hypocrisy exist?
The respected medical journal, The Lancet, has reported, “The epidemic of amputations among Black communities across the USA is a brutal reminder of the enduring complications of [diabetes] among underserved populations…” Other prestigious publications have characterized this epidemic as an indictment of our health care system.
Virginia Beach landed on the top spot of cities where African Americans fare best economically and where Black businesses thrive.