Today’s Leaders Are Not Living Up to Constitutional Norms
How are America’s leaders measuring up against the standards set by the Constitution and the examples of the Founding Fathers? It’s a question I’ve been asking as I seek refuge from contemporary politics in reading and occasionally writing, in my...
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FLORIDA: At South Florida’s Only HBCU, Black History is Taught With No Censorship Professor Msomi Moor has a special greeting for everyone who comes into his African American History class. “Welcome Black,” says the Florida Memorial University professor. FMU is...
Taking Easter Seriously
“That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)(ENDITAL) When American colonists were oppressed by British governance, the word most...
Family Settles in Battle for Ancestral Land in South Carolina
Josephine Wright, who died this year at 94, had been fighting to save family property. The developer, Bailey Point Investments, agreed to end the dispute, the family’s lawyer said.The family of a woman who fought a developer to keep their ancestral land in Hilton...
Hamas-Israel War: How Do You Defeat a Culture of Hate?
It was 1973 in Jerusalem. I was 21 years old walking through the Arab section of the Old City. I was sporting a massive afro and wearing an army jacket with the name “Elder” above the pocket, a gift from my little brother who was serving. I heard...Obiter Dicta
Americans need to be aware of the unbridled propensity of federal intelligence agencies to spy on all of us without Read More
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FLORIDA: Will a Florida museum on Black history tell whole story? Some worry it won’t Florida’s proposal to create a statewide Black history museum prompted interest, and then glossy reports, Read More