Three weeks before he died, Dr. King stood up and argued with a number. The July jobs report says he was right.
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Democrats aspire to be the party of working people. But if they want that message to resonate with one of their most loyal constituencies, they need to speak more directly—and more consistently—about the specific economic challenges confronting Black men and boys.
The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide the material and technical capacity for that country to build a nuclear power plant. The deal, said to last 30 years, gives US nuclear energy companies, specifically Westinghouse and its reactor, a unique role in providing for the civilian nuclear program. The next step would be to allow the Saudis to engage in nuclear enrichment while ensuring that they cannot build a bomb.
There are indeed some good people left among us.
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson recently wrote an opinion column about “the congressional seat that Black history built.” Surprisingly, she wasn’t describing her own seat — Florida’s 24th District, which she is leaving after 16 years of admirable service — but Florida’s 20th District in Broward County. Voters in both districts will choose new representatives in the August 18 primary.
Today’s criminal threats are more complex and sophisticated than ever, requiring a public safety strategy built upon innovation and intelligence. At the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO), our investigative divisions work around the clock to solve complex cases and hold offenders accountable.
When the President of the United States is too stupid too uncaring or too dumb to understand the long honored tradition of bowing one’s head during the dignified transfer of a fallen soldier, some grown up in the administration needs to step up.
America’s greatest threat may not be a foreign adversary waiting beyond its borders. Critics argue that the nation’s most dangerous enemy has lived within its own political culture for generations, quietly weakening the democratic principles that once defined the Republic. They contend that the continuing influence of white supremacy ideology has eroded America’s democratic institutions from within.
In 1853 he asked Harriet Beecher Stowe to help him build a school where Black boys could learn a trade. There were fathers, he said, “whose minds are tossed by day and by night with the anxious enquiry, ‘what shall I do with my boys?”’
“Even though we have an administration that doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, we’re smart and we know that it is real,” says Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire. “People can see these storms that are causing flooding in areas that have never been flooded. People know it’s hotter. They can see that. What we’re doing now is just allowing ourselves to be prepared for the world that we know that we want.”