Washington Informer
Each of us – among the fortunate – get to face each day with optimism, hope, with our “eyes on the prize.” If we’re lucky, we may just get the opportunity to do something historic, something monumental. The U.S. Black…
More than 20,000 HIV/AIDS activists will be in the nation’s capital this weekend to participate in the historic International AIDS Conference held for the first time in the U.S in more than 20 years. Their meeting here will lend itself…
Last week, an MPD Special Operations Division police officer assigned to protect first lady Michelle Obama was alleged to have made a threatening remark about her. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier accused the media of misrepresenting the incident, but…
The unemployment rate has hovered above 8 percent for several months, most recently holding ground at 8.2 percent, the same as last month. Meanwhile, the African American unemployment rate went up, officially to 14.4 percent, and we all know…
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Douglass asked, "Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended…
Right wingers are so predictable. They are against anything that even appears to benefit ordinary people, especially if ordinary Black people are seen as potential beneficiaries. Their ambition, very simply, is to tilt the balance in behalf of the…
A Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one in six chance of the same fate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate…
Rumors have it that D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's resignation is imminent. Some prognosticators were so adamant about their predictions that, according to rumors, Gray was supposed to have resigned last weekend. These rumors have been inflamed, of course,…
"Talk is cheap!" "Talkin' loud and sayin' nothin'!" Black folks do a lot of talking, rappin,' espousing, pontificating, and philosophizin'. No matter the subject, we seem to know all about it and are more than willing to get engaged…
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act two years ago, polls have consistently shown that a slight plurality of Americans have opposed the measure. But public opinion now seems to be shifting in President Obama's favor, with a…
By 2030 when today's newborns will become adults, 42 percent of Americans will be classified as obese compared to 36 percent today. So finds a new study from Duke University's prestigious Global Health Institute. Such alarming statistics have had…
While the United States of America reacts to last week's ruling by the Supreme Court on the constitutional question of President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act, there is an equally fundamental question for Americans to decide: How should public colleges…
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