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Celebrating Civil Rights in the Shadow of Civil Wrongs - June 2009 By James Clingman Jr. On June 20, 2009 major league baseball will hold its annual Civil Rights Game in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. The game was previously held in Memphis, Tennessee, the city in which our most notable civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968. The game is the crowning event of a weekend comprising several other activities to celebrate the Civil Rights struggle in America. FULL STORY > Economic Suicide -- March 2004 "It's stupid." Those were the words of Dr. Walter Lomax, Jr. during an exclusive interview with Chinta Strausberg, reporter for the Chicago Defender. Lomax was referring to how Black consumers turn their backs on their own businesses by spending billions of dollars in annual income with non-Black businesses. It’s “economic suicide,” according to Dr. Lomax, for African Americans to behave in such a manner. Why do we do this? Lomax attributes much of our inappropriate behavior to integration and a lack of knowledge of Black history. FULL STORY >
It’s Four More Years, so Dry Your Tears-- --November 2004x09 This may be difficult for some of you to take, but it needs to be said and, more importantly, it needs to be heard and acted upon. I cannot count all of the articles I written over the past ten years that deal with Black folks’ emotional investment in politics. Just as I thought, on Wednesday after the “most crucial election of our lifetime” Black folks were, once again, shocked and amazed at what took place. They were calling talk shows, whining about the outcome and asking “what are we going to do now?” Well, we should have had a plan for that long before now. FULL STORY > |
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