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By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “In America there is no such thing as Democrat or Republican anymore. In America you have liberals and conservatives. The only people living in the past who think in terms of I’m a Democrat or Republican, is the American Negro. He’s the one that runs around bragging about party affiliation. He’s […]

When a former campaign volunteer last month accused Scott Stringer of sexual harassment, his wife said she “didn’t even question” whether the allegations could be true. “I know him,” said Elyse Buxbaum, in an exclusive joint sit-down interview with the Forward. “I’ve known him for 15-plus years. It’s just not even who he is.” But not everyone believed Stringer, 61, who was once considered the progressive choice in the crowded June 22 Democratic mayoral primary and remains the ...

March 11, 2021 From Athlete To Entrepreneur: NBA Pro Charles Smith On The 5 Work Ethic Lessons We Can Learn From Professional Athletes “Life’s experiences can be both good and bad. How YOU handle them is what matters most.” I had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Smith. After his decade-long acclaimed playing days with the NBA, Charles Smith, MBA has positioned himself at the intersection of Sports, Business, Events and Technology. Relative to the NBA, itself, Smith produced […] The ...

Gina Belafonte Artivist, Gina Belafonte is the Executive Director of Sankofa.org a non-profit which educates, motivates and activates artists and allies in service of grassroots movements and equitable change. An award-winning producer, director and cultural organizer, Gina is driven by the most urgent social and political issues of our time using art as a tool to fulfill the mission of Sankofa.org.  As a visiting professor, lecturer and public speaker, Gina works with diverse artists, act...

Malcolm X visited Albany to decode NY politics just before assassination FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Malcolm X in Albany, New York. January 7, 1965 (Times Union Archive)Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Malcolm X & Viola McCain visit the New York State Legislature. January 7, 1965 (Times Union Archive)Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less 3of3 When Malcolm X came to Albany in January 1965, he was receiving death threats from two wildly divergent groups of extremists: whit...

New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in early November, Andrew Cuomo’s American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic quickly fell back to earth. Word must have spread that the governor’s self-aggrandizing account of New York’s pandemic management was far less “riveting” than promised by the publisher’s blurb. By year’s end—after Cuomo had again banned indoor dining in New York City, sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again, and launched a shambolic vac...

PapaBear3625 Obamas Connections In late 1988 Obama entered Harvard Law, upon the recommendation of Percy Sutton, a powerful New York politician. Why did Sutton pull strings for Obama? In an interview from "Inside City Hall, (youtube clip Obama and Khalid Mansour) Percy Sutton says he was introduced to Obama by Khalid Al-Mansour of Texas, "principle advisor to one of the worlds richest men". Mansour talked to Sutton about Obama and asked Sutton to write a recommendation to Harvard, using Sutton...

IN MEMORIAM: David Dinkins, New York’s First and Only Black Mayor, Dies at 93 By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Correspondent Published December 10, 2020 On the night of November 23 rd, David Dinkins succumbed to natural causes at his home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. (Courtesy Photo) David Dinkins was the stuff of political legend in New York’s Harlem. From 1990 to 1993, Dinkins served as the 106th Mayor of the largest city in America — New York. Dinkins was a historic figure ...

it has to be anchored in these trends, these ideological trends that are developing within the black community and the history that the rise of his campaign came out of. >> tell me a little bit before we get to some of the details in the book that just spill out nicely there, well touch on most of those, tell me a little bit about what it was like to write the book, to do the research for it. you make note that political scientist, stuck in the numbers and our stats, in the present con...

decade i think i went to have my say, so in this book, what its really about is providing a historical context for the rise of barack obama and looking at the various campaign strategies that racially neutral lack politics and black politicians have been using and talks about the consequences of those strategies for present-day black politics. >> host: okay so you would say its more than about obama though, the central theme, its about a lot more? >> guest: its way a lot more. i think ...