Wrongful Death: What Happened to Sandra Bland?
Whatever the cause of death there is one thing for certain – it was a wrongful death. […]
Articles by The Wilmington Journal
OUR VOICE, GUEST EDITORIAL, Child Watch, How to keep our Black boys alive
BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful truth long known in the Black community: just about every Black […]
Release low-level, non-violent drug offenders
BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX Jerry Alan Bailey was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to violate federal narcotics laws. Shauna Barry-Scott was sentenced to 20 years for having cocaine in […]
How to reform the criminal justice system
BY GEORGE CURRY There is no question that the criminal justice system is broken. President Obama made that clear recently in his address to the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia. “The United States […]
RAINBOW COALITION: Sorry is not enough
BY REV. JESSE JACKSON, SR. “That’s what strikes me. There but for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit a federal prison, the […]
BLACKONOMICS: The math and the “after-math” the confederate flag
BY JAMES CLINGMAN Now that the confederate flag has been taken down, complete with honor guard and pomp and circumstance, what are Black folks going to do now? Another question is, “What does the math […]
NC ACTIVIST TAKES DOWN CONFEDERATE FLAG –
For a short while last Saturday, the South Carolina Confederate battle flag in front of the South Carolina Statehouse was taken down, and North Carolina activist Bree Newsome was the one who admittedly did it. […]
Remarks by the President In Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney
Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now I’m found; was blind but now I see. […]
Confederate traitors don’t deserve to be honored
It is time to bring down the Confederate flag of hate, but we shouldn’t stop there. We should remove the monuments and tributes to the Civil War traitors from public buildings and streets. […]
What do we after Charleston?
I hope this latest chapter in America’s pervasive history of domestic terrors against millions of Black citizens victimized by slavery and Jim Crow, denied full citizen rights throughout our history, relegated to subhuman three-fifths status in our Constitution and treated similar to beasts of burden to fuel our unjust economic system can be squarely confronted. […]