Washington Informer
April 4 will mark the 45th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Dr. King, 39, at the time, has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. A…
On April 4, 1968, while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., a gunman fired a fatal shot with a rifle that ended King's life and what some believed would also…
The wave of mayoral school takeovers across the country has Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker diving in, as well, as he makes plans to take control of the county school system, its budget and oversight of the superintendent. Baker…
Every year for the past decade, under the agency's "stop-and-frisk" program, New York City police officers have stopped 500,000 to nearly 700,000 citizens on the city's streets. Nearly 90 percent of those stopped are Black and Hispanic men, women…
The push for the Black vote is on. Black folks are back in style. Black is beautiful – again. Since the last election, the mantra has become, "Get more 'minorities' to vote Republican" and Black voters are at the…
I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal matters, it seems that Brother King had a point. Can we all just, maybe, get along? In the wee…
Elaine Zimmerman, the executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Children, joined by others, has been offering support to children and families in Newtown, Conn. since the shootings at their school in December 2012. She shared these quotes at…
In five months, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1963, the March was jointly called by the Civil Rights Movement's "Big Six" – A. Philip Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins,…
There is hardly anything in life whose appearance is not shaped by perspective. From the planet Mercury, just 30-some-odd million miles from the Sun, the sun fills the entire horizon during the day, and the temperatures for humans would…
A select group of publishers who belong to the National Newspaper Publishers Association met with Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Washington, D.C., recently to discuss education issues that directly impact African Americans throughout the country. Each publisher voiced their concerns…
The NAACP, Taken to Task I read the article in your February 14-20 edition about the NAACP joining the fight against the soda ban with disbelief. The NAACP seems to be without any principles when it comes to issues that…
"It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men fluent in speech and able to argue their way through; but rather honest men, men who can be trusted in public…
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