Editorials

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux I never thought I would miss President George W. Bush, our 43rd president, and I’ve never much thought of him as a great, or even a good speaker; but the speech […]

by Marc Morial “We want to make sure we are understanding what the players are talking about, and that is complex.” – National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick […]

By Dr. Ben Chavis I once asked the first African American billionaire, Reginald F. Lewis, what single word best defined the most determinative factor that led to his monumental financial success?  Mr. Lewis answered, “Preparation.”  […]

By Julianne Malveaux While White men are beating Black men on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, while a “lone” White wolf is shooting people from the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and while the word “terrorist” is […]

Finally, I get a chance to get back to the series that I wanted to focus on regarding young black professionals in Jacksonville. A few weeks ago I asked a simple question – is Jacksonville […]

By Dorothy Inman-Johnson Deadbeat parent is a pejorative term for parents who fail to fulfill parental responsibilities to their children. However, the term is almost always used to describe fathers, though there certainly are deadbeat […]

by Nallah Brown “Some of us woke while some stay snoozed.” These are the words of rapper Joey BadA$$ from his song off of his new album All-Amerikkkan Bada$$, entitled “Good Morning Amerikkka”, which covers […]

by Reggie Fullwood Since we all have been dealing with so many serious issues, I wanted to lighten things up a bit. While I am extremely proud that Barack Obama was the first African American […]

What obligations do we owe one to another as Americans? What does patriotism and citizenship mean in practice? Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico has posed these questions. Americans should be dissatisfied with the way […]

by Peter Bailey While flipping through my television, I heard a host on the comedy show, Fox and Friends, denouncing an NFL player who sat down during the playing of the National Anthem. Their guest […]