By: Tonza Thomas, Executive Director of NAACP Georgia State Conference At the NAACP, our mission has always been clear: to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights for all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination. Economic empowerment is central to that mission. That’s why we feel compelled to speak out against federal legislation that would cap credit card interest rates, a well-meaning but misguided policy. On its surface, limiting credit card interest rates may seem like a consumer-friendly move—an attempt to shield Americans from the burden of…
Editorials
Sending the National Guard to places where they are not needed, requested or desired – This seems to me to be a vicious hunger for power and dictatorship unfolding before our eyes. This kind of satanic abuse of governmental resources and presidential overreach of authority will go down in history as a vicious attack on democracy. The above danger will have, I believe, dangerous consequences for decades to come. The tragedy is, some Americans and elected officials, seem to be enjoying this vicious period in our national history. This will…
WASHINGTON, August 22, 2025 / PRNewswire/ – A coalition of Southern mayors, facilitated by Ohio River South, is calling on the Trump Administration to reverse course on proposed budget cuts and a potential reorganization within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that could dismantle key HIV and STI prevention programs and jeopardize national progress toward ending the HIV epidemic. In a joint letter sent this week to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the mayors raise alarms about the possible elimination of the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, along with reduced…
All of Atlanta’s 11 football-playing high schools are scheduled to kick off their grid seasons this weekend. Four of these schools will commence play this Thursday (August 14th); The Business Engineering Science Tech (BEST) Academy Eagles travel to Ellenwood, Georgia in DeKalb County to face Utopian Academy for the Arts at 7 pm; Douglass’s Astros journey to Cumming, Georgia to face West Forsyth at 7:30 pm and KIPP’s Atlanta Collegiate Warriors are in Fairburn, Georgia facing Landmark Christian at Lakewood Stadium. Two other teams also have Thursday night tilts. The…
By Dr. Bruce E. Twyman When the United States released a list of countries targeted for a travel ban it included foreign nationals from places like Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Eritrea; mostly affecting Africa and the Middle East. But how did Haiti end up on this list? The statement released by Homeland Security cited safety concerns. Traveling to Haiti right now could be a concern due to current instability but accepting refugees fleeing the nation should have remained a priority. The man charged in…
Back in 1999, Howard University (DC) Press released “ the Black Seminole Legacy and North American Politics” written by Dr. Bruce Edward Twyman. The Cincinnati, Ohio native and veteran of the US Air National Guard called Atlanta home for several year in the mid- to- late 1980s where he benefitted educationally via studies at Clark-Atlanta University which resulted in his obtaining both a masters and doctorate degree in African-American studies and political science. His best-selling and much acclaimed work on the effect the “afro-Seminoles” as they came be known, had…
