Trapped on a bridge between life and death, hundreds of marchers were met with violent resistance. In 1965, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, they were beaten, bullied and terrified for their attempts to safeguard voting rights at a time when less than 2 percent of...
7 Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | g:i A
Recent reports show that African-American workers finally saw a significant drop in the unemployment rate last month from 15.8 percent in December to 13.6 percent in January. For African American men, the jobless rate fell from 17.1 percent to 13.6 percent and from 14.6 to 13.6 percent for African-American women,...
8 Comments | Posted January 16, 2012 | g:i A
Tent tarps flapped against the wind and rain pellets bounced off wooden planks on the ground of a muddy National Mall. All the while, Edward Jude, a gray-bearded, African-American veteran, waited patiently to discuss his role in highlighting the nation's jobs emergency and its impact on African Americans....
0 Comments | Posted January 22, 2010 | g:i A
Immigration Reform. It's an issue that evokes social, emotional, and economic unease in communities across the nation. It's an issue that conjures up a new kind of scape-goating, even unapologetic racism--pitting community against community, neighbor against neighbor, and worker against worker.
Haiti's catastrophic earthquake should remind all...
0 Comments | Posted April 4, 2008 | g:i A
Today, as we commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, it's time for an honest assessment of just how far we've come towards achieving his dream of freedom and justice for all.
A quick snapshot of today's income inequality and continued health and educational disparities...
0 Comments | Posted April 26, 2007 | g:i A
According to an African adage, "to travel is to see." While I had heard about the awful working conditions and treatment of security guards in countries such as South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique, seeing the injustice and poverty workers face at the hands of Group 4 Securicor was more compelling...
0 Comments | Posted April 16, 2007 | g:i A
I arrived in JoBurg yesterday from Washington, DC. On the drive from the airport to our hotel in Braamfontein, I was struck by the shear number of gated communities; the barbed wire, the signs advertising security systems. Incredible. And depressing. Its not my first visit to Joburg. I've been here...
0 Comments | Posted March 9, 2012 | g:i A