CATEGORY

J. Pharoah Doss

Check it out…Taking the Mayor of New Orleans slavery speech a step further (June 7, 2017)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett told a story in the preface of her autobiography about a young Black girl that asked Wells-Barnett to inform her about...

Check it out…The Tulsa acquittal, Part II (May 31, 2017)

Do you recognize the name Claudette Colvin? In 1955 she was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a White woman on a bus...

Check it out…The Tulsa acquittal (May 24, 2017)

Law enforcement has a built in “feared for life” defense.  Prosecutors have to dismantle that defense in order to convict a police officer for...

Check it out…Is ‘The Talk’ concerning the police incomplete? (May 17, 2017)

Last year a Black sniper killed five Dallas police officers during a demonstration protesting the shooting deaths of two Black men by White police...

Check it out…Was it a benign religious ritual or Female Genital Mutilation? (May 10, 2017)

A few years ago, the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned the Muslim world for practicing FGM (Female Genital Mutilation). Maher...

Check it out…The fear of new riots (May 3, 2017)

The 25th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots just passed.  The riots began after four White police officers were acquitted for beating Black motorist...

Check it out…Joseph Kony: From Warlord to chess king (April 26, 2017)

Before the United States invaded Iraq, the general public debated its justification.  Opponents of the war demanded to know: What was the threat? Any answer...

Check it out…I thought mandatory minimums were unconstitutional (April 19, 2017)

In an early grade I learned about the 1964 civil rights bill.  I thought it was the first bill of its kind.  I was...

Check it Out…Increasing the minimum wage in promotion and practice (April 12, 2017)

Recently, Jesse Jackson stated inequality has reached obscene extremes and encouraged efforts to double the minimum wage. Great. Do you remember ACORN? (The Association of Community...

Check it out…The Emmett Till painting controversy (April 5, 2017)

In 1955 two White men were acquitted in Mississippi for the murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago accused of whistling at...

Black Information Network Radio - National