Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Dr. Darron Smith- M.P. Its generally dangerous territory to criticize powerful people especially the nations first black President, as Tavis Smiley and Cornel West (http://www.povertytour.smileyandwest.com) learned in 2011 during their highly visible poverty tour. Cornell West, who supported the President in 2008, has been the most vocal [...]
After a clear victory last week, many are referring to the re-election of President Obama as a mandate. With 332 electoral votes to Mitt Romney’s 206, it is not clear what else to call it. While many are jubilant about the election results, let us not forget a key constituency that made the Obama re-election [...]
Poverty and what it means in our time is a huge social and political issue. With the Great Recession and the drab economy of the last few years, there is an increased focus on what some see as a widening chasm of inequality. On Friday, Cornel West and Tavis Smiley spoke at Hunter College on [...]
Gaddafi Killed Six months after the intervention in Libya, Colonel Gaddafi has been killed. The Libyan head of state was reportedly captured alive, and then allegedly died in a firefight between his loyalists and Transitional National Council rebel soldiers. Well, whatever the story, the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect is the new order of the [...]