by Robert Parham | Jan 25, 2011 | Opinion
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced that food prices reached a record high in December 2010. FAO reported that the price for wheat, rice, sugar and other commodities will remain high or increase in price. So far, increased...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion
I’ve always liked the art of Norman Rockwell, whose work illustrated much of the 20th century, often on magazine covers. Art critics typically dismissed Rockwell as a commercial hack rather than a true artist, but common folk who think a painting should look...
by Larry Greenfield | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion
There once was a time when Paul Krugman, by his own admission, wasn’t particularly active in public debate about policy issues confronting the country and the world. But for the last decade or so, no one would accuse the Nobel Prize winner in economics, who...
by Wendell Griffen | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion
What was your first reaction to news reports that Robert Bentley, the new governor of Alabama, publicly declared during an observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., that people who have not...
by Odell Cleveland and Bob Wineburg | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This column is part one of a two-part series on faith-based social services. The writers – a black Baptist preacher who runs a faith-based workforce development agency and a Jewish professor who has spent the last 30 years studying faith-based...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 21, 2011 | Opinion
You would think that folks who have firm convictions would not be threatened by the notion of cooperating in various ways with others who might differ in some respects. Apparently, however, the fear of contamination rules in some circles. Southwestern Baptist...
