Opinion Archives

Op-Ed: Chicago Defender Cartoonist, Jay Jackson and the First Black Superhero-Finale

Site Editor - January 9, 2021

Steve Carper is a historian of popular culture. He researched Jay Jackson and compiled a unique commentary on Bungleton Green. The commentary uses illustrations...

OP-ED: Black Girl Magic-Stacey Abrams Saves Democracy

Kelly Washington, Contributing Writer - January 8, 2021

All hail Stacey Abrams! The tyranny at the U.S. Capitol by domestic terrorists, a noose built on federal grounds by racists, and a Confederate...

Op-Ed: Chicago Defender Cartoonist, Jay Jackson and the First Black Superhero-Pt. 2

Site Editor - January 8, 2021

Steve Carper is a historian of popular culture. He researched Jay Jackson and compiled a unique commentary on Bungleton Green. The commentary uses illustrations...

Op-Ed: Chicago Defender Cartoonist, Jay Jackson and the First Black Superhero-Pt. 1

Site Editor - January 7, 2021

Hired by the Chicago Defender in 1933, Jay Jackson is one of the top cartoonists in Black media. Becoming the head cartoonist in 1936,...

Black people should cease claiming people who want other identities

Courier Newsroom - January 4, 2021

by A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com)—While recently watching a television program, “Tiger Woods: America’s Son,” I remembered a January 1992 column in which I listed my...

Lessons from 2020…In Your Own Words.

Danielle Sanders - January 2, 2021

2020 was a year that forced many of us to go within. With the world as we knew it changing before our eyes, many...

2020 The Year That Opened Our Eyes-Part 2

Danielle Sanders - December 31, 2020

Black people found themselves hit on every side this year. A global pandemic was disproportionately affecting our communities. The number of police-related shootings of...

Guest Editorial: Take the ‘darned’ vaccine

Courier Newsroom - December 12, 2020

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has made the phrase “wear the damn mask” one of the most quoted requests in 2020. And now, as both...

OP-ED: Get Ready for Donald Trump’s Shadow Government

Courier Newsroom - December 6, 2020

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—Leave it to Donald Trump to run brazen subversion—refusal to accept the decision of the voters in the presidential election —as a clown show,...