Tag: Religion
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Muhammad Ali’s Dream
It is a strange process that we put all our heroes and heroines through. First, we seen them as dangerous and revile them. Then, in death, we (even their former antagonists and adversaries) adopt them and turn them into everything we wished the hero to be, everything we could not make them be when alive.…
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Men’s laws for women’s bodies
Zina Saunders did this piece to accompany an article in The Nation magazine. Ordinarily, it would carry her byline but I do not want attribute to her my own thoughts on this issue. My thoughts, such as they are, are unformed and unsophisticated, incoherent even. Try this: Isn’t it time we men stop manifesting our…
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A worthy comment
Script: Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast. Some parameters, as preface. This isn’t about yelling, and this isn’t about politics, and this isn’t really…
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I don’t hate Prince, just his views
Sometime in the late to mid 1970s, Prince announced himself not only as a musical genius, but as a social revolutionary. By highlighting different lifestyles and playing with (in his music as wells as personal style) sexuality and androgyny, for instance, Prince opened all of our eyes to the way people live. That earlier Prince…
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Jew Baiting
This deserves much more attention than it’s getting. Congressman Steve Cohen is Jewish. He represents the majority-black district in Memphis, Tennessee, vacated by Harold Ford in 2006. Cohen is among the House’s most liberal members, and he recently gained some notoriety for getting Congress to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow. Cohen is being challenged…
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Tony's Nobel grovel
I don’t remember who started it, or when it started, so let’s blame it on Jimmy Carter. The former president rehabilitated his public service record by becoming a world do-gooder in chief. He built homes for the homeless, cured elections, and generally did whatever he could to expunge from the public mind, his four years…
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On 'cling'-ing to 'bitter' words
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FOR BLACK YOUTHS, AN UNEASY START
by Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 27, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Toward the end of his workshop Saturday, the Rev. Clarence L. James Sr. asked boys in the front pew at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack what it takes to be a…
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TAKE PRIDE, PROFESSOR URGES BLACKS
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 After professor Rosalind Jeffries concluded a speech urging blacks to take pride in their heritage, a waiter went over and thanked her for inspiring him and exhorted her to press on with…
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DIVINING PASTOR NABS OFFERTORY THIEF IN ACT
A Fort Lee pastor said he sensed about midday Tuesday would be a convenient time for someone, if they were so inclined, to try to steal money from his church’s offering box. So he sneaked into the church and caught a man in the act.