Tag: commentary
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Facebook Continues to Fail the Black Community
By Derrick Johnson “Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” That was a question Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) posed to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional hearing in which the latter responded with an awkward “no.” It is likely that Mr. Zuckerberg found this question ... -
Just Wake Me When It’s Over
By Julianne Malveaux Remember that song by both the Supremes and the Four Tops – wake me when it’s over? The singers felt like they were having a bad dream – their partners were about to leave them for “the love of a stranger”, and all they wanted to do was be awakened at the ... -
Fake Math Fuels Trump’s Lopsided, Lousy Tax Reform
By Marc H. Morial President & CEO, National Urban League “Rightful taxation is the price of social order. In other words, it is that portion of the citizen’s property which he yields up to the government in order to provide for the protection of all the rest. It is not to be wantonly levied on ...