HOLLYWOOD CA-Sammy Davis Jr. was one of a kind. To be sure, there will not be another quite like him. For over six decades, Davis did thing on his own terms in the entertainment industry. […]
LOS ANGELES-There are people who are more than a little pissed off that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States. They’re angry. They are outraged. The epidemic of […]
Black lives do matter. White on black crime used to be the norm, the way things were supposed to be. White robes, hooded sheets, cross-burnings and a good old-fashion lynching. The rope has been replaced […]
LOS ANGELES-Baseball and Jackie Robinson go hand-in-hand. One could not do without the other. Where would baseball be today without the imprint Robinson left on the game? Robinson could not go down in history as […]
The media has selective memory on news it wants to report. The fact that Peyton Manning has been able to enjoy a Hall of Fame career and ride off into the sunset without the blemish […]
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today would his words be enough to save America from a pending racial implosion? From the looks of things, this country is firmly on the path to […]
A 12-year-old African-American boy in Cleveland, Ohio is dead because he was toying around with a pellet gun. Tamir Rice will never see 13. Never play sports, never go to high school prom, never get […]
The Civil Rights Movement offered hope that racial inequality would soon end. The movement led to a series of reforms, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and other […]
The nonprofit organization Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE), launched a nationwide campaign to harness the unifying power of sport to advance race relations. Founded by Stephen M. Ross, majority owner of the Miami […]
One of Julian Bond’s heroes, Frederick Douglass, died at 77 in his Washington, D.C. home, cared for by a loving wife and comrade. NAACP Chair Emeritus Bond died at 75. He leaves his loving wife, […]
There is something to be said about quiet strength. This was Arthur Ashe’s calling card. He achieved the greatest of heights without making a lot of noise. He didn’t have a reality show to promote […]
Suppressive voting rights efforts. Open racial taunts. Young black men losing their lives to law enforcement. Nonviolent demonstrators march nationwide for justice. States viewing the federal government as meddling outsiders. Where have we seen this […]
The Crisis/New America Media , News Analysis, Wallace Roberts PITTSBURGH, Penn.–On July 4, 1883, the Lemington Home for the Aged opened as a charity to house “aged and infirm colored women.” The first four residents […]
Some things are bigger than a basketball game. There are more important things in life that supersedes winning a championship. If they didn’t know already, the players on the Los Angeles Clippers are discovering that […]
The NBA is now on trial. The league is on a public trial to which any move it makes in race relations with its players and owners is going to rain down a horde of […]
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