Getting Past Katrina

Columnist and author Juan Williams argues that poor people must confront a poverty of spirit.

“For a brief time our guilt and shame seemed to put America on the political edge of a new try at something like a 1960’s-era Great Society program. But that newfound energy was squandered amid racial and political arguments. [...]

"Will There Be Any Black People There?"

This is when you typically here this question. You’ve found a new place or event and you think your friends would enjoy going. You call them up and tell them about it giving it your best sell because you’re excited about going. They take it all in and they ask, “I dunno. [...]

Quote of the Day: The Negro Should Not Enter the Army

“It is about time for the ministers of the A.M.E. Church, who, in the aggregate, are the most progressive, enlightened and racial of the Africanite ministry of the world, with the highest regard for all other denominations, to begin to tell the young men of our race to stay out of the United States Army. [...]