YOU! HOLD THE KEY TO CHANGE | Practicing Openness in Conversations

BY DR. ELLEN BROWN Black Americans are talking. Conversations are interactive, challenging and thought-provoking. This is a good thing as we face a turn in political etiquette.  Through my interactions with random people, friends, family, colleagues, and media, the messages coming out of the White House and Congress bring forth more questions than understanding! How […]

Apocalypse A’Comin’

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET The pending catastrophe is of our own making. We have become an alphabet of mess-ups. Are you asking yourself, “What is my boy Louie talking about?” Well, here are my answers in letters.  A: Arrogant and ignorant traits of the president are not good for conducting our nation’s business.  B: Bankruptcy of […]

YOU! HOLD THE KEY TO CHANGE | Conversations and Questions

BY DR. ELLEN BROWN Black Americans are talking.  Through my interactions with friends, family, colleagues, and media, it is abundantly clear that the conflicting messages coming out of the White House bring forth more confusion than understanding! How does this affect the importance of Black voices? How can we know what the conversations are and […]

Is America Now A Valueless State?

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET A case can certainly be made that America no longer adheres to a time-honored consistent set of values. Sadly, our present values are those exhibited by, with notable exceptions, too many selfish, greedy, unethical, and immoral political leaders.  They certainly don’t match up with the four simple and easy values that Myrtha […]

YOU! HOLD THE KEY TO CHANGE | Project 2025: What it Means for Black Communities

BY DR. ELLEN BROWN It is time to get serious! There are real threats to our civil rights and equal opportunities. You may have heard mentions of Project 2025 and even discussions about its activities. But do you know its purpose? I encourage you to read this summary as its implementation under the presidency of […]

YOU! HOLD THE KEY TO CHANGE | Identity Months In America: Are They Losing Significance?

BY DR. ELLEN BROWN Black History Month 2025 has passed — the shortest yet most significant month of the year.  However, it’s not just the brevity causing a stir. This year, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, issued a proclamation to continue the recognition of February as Black History Month. It is a […]

Things That Don’t Even Make Sense

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET How does it even make sense for a plurality of Americans, who voted in November 2024, to elect a convicted felon instead of a crime-fighting prosecutor to the highest elected office in our teetering democracy?  How does it even make sense for our nation, under presidents of both parties, to lose tens […]

Things Ain’t Working Out For You. Here’s Why

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET We now know the 47th POTUS plans to lord over America by administrative fiat. If you are uninformed or lack means, then sadly things will not be working out for you.  If you are questioning what makes me qualified to speak of the harm caused by being nescient and why poverty is […]

YOU! HAVE THE POWER | Politics and the power of music

BY DR. ELLEN BROWN “From the start of our memories, music has been the force for Black people who have taught us, fought for us, prepared us, led us, protected us, consoled us, and buried us. That has not changed!” — Dr. Ellen W. Brown  The reference to “us” in this context highlights explicitly African-American […]

America History Month, Black And Otherwise

BY LOUIE OVERSTREET Unlike my college engineering classes — where it was tough to stay awake the morning after a date with Ms. Thunderbird — I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the lessons being taught in high school.  Through what I learned at East Tech in Cleveland back in the late 1950s, coupled with life […]

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