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Black America: Still a Tale of 2 Countries
The Root DC’s Hamil R. Harris analyzes the results of a recent Urban League report. While African Americans have made significant economic gains since the 1960s the definition of wealth and success remains a tale of the haves and the have nots when black achievement is compared to the success of whites. The National Urban League…
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My Son Nearly Died of Salmonella
President Barack Obama’s first prime-time news conference played on a small television monitor above my son’s hospital bed, as the 24-pound toddler fought for his life. As a Washington journalist, normally, I’d be itching to be there at the White House. But on that day, Obama’s words faded into the background as I looked at…
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Rev. Wright and the Easter Bunny
Last June, on assignment covering religion for the Washington Post, I found myself at the National Press Club, where a group of religious leaders were meeting to craft a social justice agenda for the 2008 elections. Among those at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Legislative Conference was a minister named Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a man with…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
