Editorials

OurView (Idaho Mountain Express) : The people in the United States are counted every ten years. A pandemic should not be an excuse to warp the 2020 process. The constitutionally required decennial census provides the […]

By Shannon M. Smith – Blacks challenged white dominance of public space using parades, conventions and other events. In Charleston, South Carolina, Black citizens in the 1880s and 1890s mocked and defaced the original monument […]

By Moné Holder – As the Primary Election approaches and COVID-19 cases continue to hit record numbers in Florida, it forces many Floridians to ask themselves: should I protect my vote or protect my life? […]

By A.R. Shaw – Over 500,000 people have signed a petition to have Edmund Pettus Bridge renamed in honor of the late-great John Lewis. On Aug. 7, community and civil rights leaders met in Selma, Alabama to discuss […]

The Gazeette Editorial Board, August 6, 2020 – Three months before the murder of George Floyd incited coast-to-coast race riots by mostly white rioters, President Donald Trump nominated a Black man who could tell the […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE By Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Chairwoman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee & Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-07) — Even in the darkest of times, we can hear our friend and mentor John Lewis: “Ours is […]

Daily Press Staff – The Black Lives Matter movement is noble in purpose, and anyone who truly understands the history of this country would agree. Though sometimes it quietly bides its time in the seamy […]

By Walter Williams – I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — […]

By Andrew Wilkes  – The bones of love, of Black lives, are everywhere in America. As a co-pastor providing congregational care and delivering sermons to a Black congregation each week, it is difficult to watch politicians […]

By Daily Editorials – The new message is loud and clear about American history. It says our country is racist and rotten to the core because of the sins of our past. The past cannot be forgiven, […]