Only about 36% of Black families own homes in Washington, compared to 67% of White families. Black renters spend more of their income on housing. than White renters do Every year that new homes are not built is another year that these families fall further behind building wealth and security for their children.
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Daniel Poneman, a former U.S. Secretary of Energy—a position that includes supervision of America’s nuclear weapons—gave a recent talk called “Prospects for Nuclear Proliferation,” in which he argued that in an ever more dangerous world, the best chance for security is to bolster the U.S. deterrent.
Donald Trump has built one of the most remarkable political careers in modern American history. For decades, he has cultivated an image of personal invincibility. Business failures became evidence of resilience. Investigations became proof of persecution. Criticism became confirmation that powerful interests feared him.
By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. There are moments when a community must refuse to be silent simply because the people making the decisions have the authority…
I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s. They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ignorant and illiterate white people waltzed right in. Racists poll workers had jars of jelly beans. Black voters had to guess how many. Then the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.
America appears trapped in two dangerous wars—one against Iran and another, critics warn, against its own democracy. History should have taught America the enormous price of presidents pursuing wars without clearly achievable political objectives. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq demonstrated that overwhelming military power does not guarantee political victory. HOW MANY DISASTROUS WARS MUST AMERICA FIGHT BEFORE ITS LEADERS LEARN THAT MILITARY POWER CANNOT SOLVE EVERY INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT?
As someone who grew up and attended lower school in South Florida, I was privy to the difficulties public schools in my region faced. The reality was that there were far too many young students crammed into a classroom alongside a single teacher to fulfill all their needs. It was easy to lose motivation or even attempt to stand out from the masses.
Like many of you, I went to an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) back in the day. Those were some unforgettable times in my life. I could not have scripted my experience any better than how it played out. Humbly, I say that it was a real-life dream.
Soon, Hubbell recalls, what he was writing to his family, was being forwarded to friends. It “became a community of like-minded citizens devoted to preserving American democracy.” Today, upwards of 80,000 people read Today’s Edition.
Israel’s concern, expressed by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is that “if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, once again threaten Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another Oct. 7-style attack.”