by Larry Greenfield | Sep 24, 2009 | Opinion
My younger daughter, Jessica, was watching TV in the family room of our third-floor apartment more than 30 years ago. At one point she yelled, “Daddy, Daddy, Mrs. Brown is on the show.” I looked carefully at the female characters on the TV, some white and...
by Robert Parham | Sep 22, 2009 | Opinion
“Gran Torino” is the best movie I have seen this year, maybe the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s about death and redemption, the loss of an American way of life and the purchase for immigrants of a new way of life. It’s...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 18, 2009 | News
Former President Jimmy Carter created a political firestorm on Sept. 15 by charging that some of the opposition to President Barack Obama is due to continued racism in America. Although some politicians and commentators have dismissed Carter’s charge, a...
by Wendell Griffen | Sep 17, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from “The Content of Our Character,” a speech delivered by Wendell Griffen at the annual banquet of the Arkansas NAACP on Sept. 12, 2009. It is profoundly noteworthy that Americans will accuse President Obama...
by Keith Herron | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
It’s not human nature for us to look outside the fence of our own lives and to see clearly “the other.” This year I’ve learned the term “the other” is recognized as anyone outside our own culture or our own world of experience. It...
