By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor For too long our education system has been intertwined with the criminal legal system and the results have been tragic, particularly for our most vulnerable students. […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Reparations are needed now. I know, I know…white folks would rather wrestle with a 40-foot anaconda than sit down and have a rational conversation about the need for reparations, […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column If you are one of those persons who still sings along with Judy Garland’s signature song, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” out of the famed movie, The Wizard of Oz, and […]
By RaShya Ghee, Esq Guest Column Hypocrisy has long characterized America’s racial realities. In the 1770s, colonists demanded freedom from “enslavement” of the crown while simultaneously enslaving practically an entire race of people. In 1829, […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor This isn’t a revolution of black against white, this is a revolution of right against wrong. And right has never lost. – Dick Gregory On January […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column A time traveler returning from viewing the celebrations of the newly freed slaves in Texas in June of 1865 and which joyous occasions morphed into the Texas holiday of Juneteenth, […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in present-day society. – Black Panther Party Platform The celebration of Juneteenth resonates with […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor The hope of leadership lies in the capacity to deliver disturbing news and raise difficult questions in a way that people can absorb, prodding them to […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” –Chinua Achebe- You may have heard the recent political dust-up about some […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor We do live in a society where there is a severe racial wealth gap. And the people who often are least advantaged in that scheme are […]