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To the Editor:                                                                 Regarding Al Calloway’s column in last week’s edition, Where does black leadership go from Troy?, I like being optimistic in most instances. …

What appears to be the Troy Davis fiasco should almost involuntarily focus black people everywhere on justice and its centuries of meaninglessness.

Editor’s note: The following is another in a series based on the writer’s efforts at losing weight. After four months and several coaching sessions, I …

It was America’s 34th president, the great World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned about “the military industrial complex.” He cautioned to beware …

Christians will tell you that even Jesus Christ, the carpenter with The Good News, could not nail down human behavior. (It is believed that His …

Special to South Florida Times RIVIERA BEACH — They are in an elite club: professional athletes at the top of their careers and have savored …

According to the Oakland Institute, an Oakland, Calif., non-profit social development think-tank, the super rich, especially European, and some U.S. universities are engaged in a …

So we now know that, as of 2008, African Americans had an aggregate purchasing power estimated at $913 billion, larger than the economy of mineral …

Before the civil rights movement, lucky black men, some with college degrees, got steady work as Red Caps at major train stations and as Pullman …

Unless you are one of them, more than likely walking down streets pockmarked with trash-strewn empty lots, amid some boarded up and deteriorating houses and …