A taxpayer-funded theater organization appears to have backed off its idea of holding an “all-black identifying audience” event next month. On Jan. 16, the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa announced that it planned to hold a “Black Out night” event featuring a rendition of Aleshea Harris’s “Is God Is” on Feb. 17, but which…
Ottawa Theatre Backtracks Performance for ‘All-Black Identifying Audience’
Why Are Blacks Still on Board With Biden?
Commentary New polling from Pew Research and from NY Times/Siena College, released a few days apart, cast similarly dismal pictures regarding the popularity of President Joe Biden. Overall approval for Biden from NY Times/Siena College stands at 33 percent and from Pew 37 percent. However, both polls show approval for the president much stronger than…
82-Year-Old Freedom Rider Reflects on Her Role in the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks held onto her wooden cane while sitting on the couch at her Birmingham home. The cane looks like it’s been through a history like hers. She is a striking woman with big eyes and a bigger smile, and her wrinkled but graceful fingers are loaded with big silver rings, each telling…
Blacks Saying Bye-Bye to Biden
Commentary A new report from Pew Research shows that the sharpest drop in approval for President Joe Biden is among the Democratic Party’s most loyal and consistent supporters—black protestants. In March 2021, shortly after he took office, Biden’s support among black protestants stood at 92 percent. By January 2022, this was down to 65 percent,…
Black Refuseniks Reject Vaccine Mandates
CommentaryWhenever President Joe Biden scolds vaccine holdouts, calling them stupid and even murderous, he curiously leaves out the one demographic group that data from his own health agencies show is the least likely to be inoculated, yet most vulnerable to COVID: African-Americans.He hypocritically singles out Republicans for rebuke, but not his most loyal Democratic constituency, all the…
Corporate Social Justice Programs Don’t Work
Commentary According to a new report from The Washington Post, America’s corporations have committed “at least” $49.5 billion to the cause of “racial justice” since the George Floyd murder last year riveted our national attention on race. This amounts to a little over $1,100 for every black man, woman, and child in America. Or, from…
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