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Don’t let your hatred of President Trump blind you to this fact. The caravan of migrants from Central America grew to roughly 5,000 Sunday, a massive group that stretched along this city’s main highway for more than a half-mile. They spoke in different accents, fleeing different disasters: joblessness in parts of Honduras, a mounting political… Read more.
President Trump billed Kanye’s visit to the White House a week ago today as a summit to discuss urban development, vocational training, black unemployment (notably Colin Kaepernick’s), and criminal justice reform. Unsurprisingly, it was anything but. Here in essence is what Kanye said during a 10-minute, stream-of-consciousness rant in the Oval Office, which played out… Read more.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) exposed his perfidy and Trump’s cupidity. The prevailing feature of President Trump’s foreign policy is the way he courts world leaders with whom he has, or is scheming to establish, personal financial ties. Nothing betrayed this quite like the way he salivated at the prospect of striking deals… Read more.
I have been making this claim for decades. It’s based primarily on the fact that Frederick Douglass personified both the contradictions and promises that define America’s founding documents. And he did so like nobody else has or ever could. Unfortunately, even black historians have been so indoctrinated with white historiography, they invariably try to qualify my… Read more.
In “Re Supreme Court: Kavanaugh-Ford Playing Thomas-Hill Roles. But a Different Ending Looms,” September 17, 2018, I delineated some of the principled and political reasons why I asserted that Kavanaugh’s confirmation was toast. And, the intemperate way he spewed bald-faced lies during his testimony only reinforced my assertion. Frankly, there was no fair way he… Read more.
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably the most famous athlete on the planet. This is why one woman accusing him of rape is generating more global news coverage than 10 (or more) accusing Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein of the same ever did. Kathryn Mayorga says the Portuguese footballer, who plays for Italian club Juventus,… Read more.
As President Trump boasted of his administration’s accomplishments at a campaign rally Monday in Johnson City, Tenn., he also touted something he hasn’t done: replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill with a likeness of [Harriet]Tubman, the African-American icon who ran the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape to freedom in the North.… Read more.
No doubt you recall the earthquake that struck Indonesia in 2004, triggering a tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. Government officials promised back then to devise a foolproof-warning system to ensure deadly tsunamis would never again wash up on so many people unawares. Sure enough, another earthquake struck Indonesia on Friday, triggering another tsunami. The… Read more.
