DON’T VOTE!

by Tre Millyanz
Just kidding….maybe. I’ve been reading Malcolm X Speaks edited by George Breitman and I ran across an interesting quote I thought I’d share (actually I found a ton, but I’ll post this one first). My commentary follows the quote
We’re neutral. We’re for ourselves. Whatever is good for us, that’s [...]

Paying College Athletes

Dr Boyce Watkins
www.BoyceWatkins.net
Quick FYI: I will be on the Jesse Jackson Show tomorrow morning from 8 – 10 am. A list of cities is here. Some of you know that I have been in an on-going campaign to challenge the NCAA on the fact that they do not compensate the families of [...]

Green is the New Black

The Black Empowerment Movement is going to require and economic revolution in the Black community. We missed the Industrial Revolution because we were in chains or getting lynched. What was the “Golden Age” for white folks in America (the period after WWII until about 1960) was almost non-existent for a people at the [...]

Hidden Oil Subsidies: We Need to END Them

by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 07. 2.08

Econ 101: Subsidies
One of the many problems with subsidies is that they are almost impossible to repeal. That’s because they usually give big benefits to a small group of people at a relatively small cost to a huge number of people. For example, corn-ethanol [...]

The Big Payback

by William A. Darity, Jr. and Kirsten Mullen | TheRoot.com

Thanks for all the slavery apologies, but where the hell is my mule?

July 1, 2008–Legislatures in two more states—Missouri and Nebraska—are contemplating apologies for slavery. Slavery was introduced in what would become Missouri at least as early as 1720 when Philippe Francois Renault brought [...]