Commentaries
How Tax Reform Can Help Revive Urban Communities, A Special Commentary by Hazel Trice Edney
…one approach worth considering is the so-called border adjustment tax, an obscure policy with widespread implications. […]
Month: April 2017
Health
Black doctors earn less than white doctors
“Fifty-percent of African-American physicians don’t feel fairly compensated,” the report’s editor Leslie Kane, a senior director of Medscape Business of Medicine, told CBS. […]
Commentaries
Jeff Sessions is rolling back basic rights
Sessions has set out with a vengeance to transform the Department of Justice into a Department of Injustice. […]
Feature
Jobless rate increases for Black men
Businesses added 98,000 jobs in March, lower than predicted, and black men 20 years old and older continued to suffer from the nation’s highest unemployment rate. […]
International
Virunga Park Warden Tapped For Grassroots Activist Prize
Now the 41 year old warden’s good deeds will be rewarded. This month he was named one of six winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award honoring grassroots environmental activists. […]
International
Doubts Raised About Highly-Praised Malaria Vaccine Headed For Africa
The vaccine – known as RTS,S or Mosquirix, trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquito bites. It was developed by the British pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline. […]
International
Over 100 Multi-Millionaires In Namibia Amidst ‘Gross Inequality’ – Report
“The majority of Namibians remain structurally excluded from meaningful participation in the economy and as we established earlier, inclusivity ensures harmony and exclusivity brings discord,” Geingob told lawmakers. […]
Feature
Lawmakers To Fight U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts To Somalia
A recent review by General Thomas Waldhauser, head of US Africa Command, acknowledged a rise in piracy off the Somali coast partially fueled by drought and famine. At least half a dozen attacks have occurred in the last month, he said. […]
Feature
Trump’s avoidance of Black Press reveals tense relations
President Trump and most African Americans are off to a terrible start, not surprising given the heavy black vote against him and the atrocious gaffes he and his appointees continue to make regarding nonwhite folks. […]
Feature
Calls for Criminal Probe of False Voter-Fraud Allegations in NC
Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, said that while McCrory ultimately did not succeed in proving fraud or winning the election, there is significant and permanent damage when fraud is alleged. […]