Will this election day be the beginning of the end for America? (Article Below – available for use) Will this election day be the beginning of the end for America? By Dr. H. J. Harris, author of “Solving the Race Issue In America” (www.solvingtheraceissue.com) As election day unfolds, many wonder if the words of President Abraham Lincoln are predictive of the future of America. Lincoln said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Lincoln felt that the ideals of…
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Black Press Coverage of the 2020 Elections Facebook.com/BlackPressUSA: https://www.facebook.com/BlackPressUSA YouTube at BlackPressUSATV: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BlackPressUSATV 7 pm to 7:15 pm EST National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) goes live! NNPA Chair and Houston Forward Times Publisher Karen Carter Richards and NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., kick things off with opening remarks. 7:15 pm to 7:30 pm EST Special interview with Steve Corbett, who comes to us from Scranton, Pennsylvania, a key city that Trump and Biden have been fighting tooth and nail for and the national media has descended upon…
I’ve heard that Martin Luther King Jr. did not want my dad Hosea Williams to March this time. Hosea had led many marches across the southeast by then, he was hired by Martin King because of his success in organizing and leading working people to march. Hosea was sent to this small Southern town to manage the movement there until Dr. King could get there. They had a phone call about the rising sentiment of the people there, especially about the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the decision was…
By Ramona Houston, Ph.D., PMP As we enter the final days of the 2020 election cycle, African American men have taken center stage in the conversation about this transformative election. Despite the political realities of the last four years, polling data shows a small, yet significant percentage of African American men supporting President Donald Trump, and another notable percentage choosing not to participate in the political process at all. Considering the current state of Black America, one thing is clear: African Americans have suffered immensely under the Trump administration. For…
When voting for the president of the United States, historically, African Americans have more often than not felt compelled to vote against a candidate due to the threat the person poses to our community. Not until the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, who represented hope and change, did African Americans feel like we had someone to vote for. This year we have both. President Donald Trump’s egregious lack of leadership is a threat to the very existence of African Americans. During his presidency, African Americans have lost jobs, wealth, health care, voter protections,…
OTIS’ DREAM #VOTETHEDREAM Voting mattered then, and voting matters now! In 1946, when attempting to vote was literally deadly, some among us were willing to do whatever was necessary to vote. This film follows Otis Moss, Sr. through his day long journey to cast his ballot in rural Georgia. Powerful, poignant, and prescient as today’s struggles with voter suppression multiply.
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