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To be equal

January 17, 2024

Supreme Court’s so-called ethics code is worse than nothing Marc H. Morial “There’s no clearer indication that these rules are useless than the fact that they end up codifying Thomas’s outrageous behavior as ethically within bounds. According to the rules, not a single thing Thomas has done is a problem. Putting

Good things do happen!

January 17, 2024

E. Faye Williams These days I’ve been glued to the television praying that Israel will cease fire and stop the killing because it won’t bring back those who were killed in Israel or the many Palestinians. We must recognize that the thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza or those civilians

Coach Tommy Tuberville

January 16, 2024

David W. Marshall He prefers to be called “coach” despite being the senior U.S. Senator for Alabama. Even on his official Senate website, he is called “Coach Tommy Tuberville.” Tommy Tuberville spent most of his professional career as a college football coach with stints at the University of Mississippi, Auburn

Biden beware, young folks don’t care

January 16, 2024

Julianne Malveaux There is no question how I will vote in a contest between President Joe Biden and the toxic prior President. Biden wins every time. But I’m just me, I’m not the pollsters, the young’uns, the rural votes, and the disaffected. Listing Biden’s accomplishments and comparing them to those

Our need to be tough and resilient

January 16, 2024

A. Peter Bailey Back in 2008, I wrote a column that included the following guidance from journalist-historian-author-master teacher Lerone Bennett, Jr.: “Given the way we are forced to live in this society, the miracle is not that so many families are broken, but that so many are still together. That

Religion

January 16, 2024

What is the promise of the Passover? Dr. Ronald Holmes By Ronald W. Holmes, Ph.D.Special to the Outlook The Lord has made countless promises to humankind. One of the promises is “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10: 13). In Wednesday Night Bible

Why peace in the Middle East could avert a regional conflagration

January 16, 2024

Michael A. Grant During the late 1970’s, I went to work for the Carter administration in the press office of Health and Human Services Secretary Joseph Califano. While our agency was focused primarily on domestic issues, one of President Jimmy Carter’s all-consuming objectives was a foreign policy issue: How to

The dangers of minstrel diplomacy

January 16, 2024

Wilmer J. Leon, III “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions…He will find his own “proper place” and will stay in it…You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there

A divided house cannot stand

January 16, 2024

David W. Marshall NSF Staff Report Five years after a gunman killed two women and injured four people at a Tallahassee yoga studio, Florida State University held a research and policy symposium about reducing violence against women and girls. The event last Thursday included a memorial service for the women

The high price of police misconduct

December 9, 2023

David W. Marshall Each year during October, the National Faith and Blue Weekend is held in communities throughout the nation. The purpose of this community engagement initiative is to use local faith-based organizations as a means to develop relationships between police department officials, residents, businesses and community groups. The various