When Roseanne Barr’s television show was rebooted earlier this year, the bean counters at ABC figured that Barr, an ardent…
Black physician and her family attacked by racist white couple in Orlando, Florida–and the police protect and serve the attackers
So, last weekend, Dr. Covey Banks, a black physician, and her family were enjoying the pool at the Omni Orlando…
Atty. Chuck Hobbs’s Baccalaureate Address to the FAMU High Class of 2018
Over eighty years ago Florida, like the rest of its southern brethren, was mired in the system of…
NFL “Owners” tell their well paid “property” to stand for the Star Spangled Banner
I have always been extremely uneasy with the concept that professional sports league “owners” hold “rights,” as in “property rights,”…
Letter From Facebook Jail: How minority activists are targets for Censorship
“…Clear all the madness, I’m not a racist, Preach to teach to all, ‘Cause some they never had this’” Chuck…
Facebook suspends my page due to my post about Prince Harry, British “Nobility” and historical racism
For a social medium that allows its millions of users worldwide to post all sorts of lewd, nude, inane and…
100 years ago this weekend, Hays and Mary Turner, husband and wife, were brutally lynched near Valdosta, Georgia
After Hampton Smith, a wealthy plantation owner, was allegedly murdered by Sidney Johnson, a black man, in Brooks County in…
The Palestinian people are the oppressed–not the oppressors–in Gaza
The carnage being inflicted this week by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza is yet the latest example of centuries old…
When white racism goes completely unchecked…
This past week, my hometown, Tallahassee, Florida, made national news when a 17-year old white male who attends Lawton Chiles…
