Tag: African-Americans

  • Trump on Clinton’s Bigotry: Pot Calling Kettle . . .

    One thing is clear. Donald Trump does not have a plan to win the office of President of the United States. His intention is to win every news cycle by saying the most outrageous things that occur to him at that given moment. A short time ago, it was encouraging gun owners to make sure…

  • TAKE NOTE, AMERICANS_Lessons from Across the Sea

    By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, April 3, 1994 Saraan Ajaye did not even know South Africa was a country until she took a human rights course a year ago. Ajaye, a senior at the Bronx alternative high school Schomburg Satelite Academy, now sees the country’s gallop to democracy after three…

  • HIS CAUSE His Spirit Moved Them by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Sunday, April 5, 1998 Children were raising innocent voices in freedom songs in church basements as adults braved firebombs, water hoses, dogs and jails for full rights as American citizens. As a 5-year-old, Suzan Johnson joined the other children singing at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Now 41, the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook is pastor…

  • ISLAM ON THE RISE; Converts, a Boom in Births Help Swell Rank of Muslims

    Sunday, November 09, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN NADIA BARNES RECITED the shahada, or central principle of Islam. “La ilaha illa Allah, sa Muhammadun rasulu Allah,” Barnes said after Imam Muhammed Salem Agwa: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammed is the messenger of Allah.” The 23-year-old fashion designer and finance student descended from…