BY MICHAEL DIMOCK For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups. One lens often employed by researchers at the Center to understand these differences is that of generation. Generations provide the opportunity to look at Americans both by their place Read More…
Perspective
Modulasetulo (The Chairman), Living with a disability
By Rev. Mmakgabo G Sepoloane, Contributing Writer Besides being the leader of his church, the Reverend Bantekile Jacob Sehau does not head any other components in the church. Yet, among most of us clergy in the MM Mokone Memorial Annual Conference of the 19th Episcopal District, he is affectionately referred to as /Modulasetulo/ (Chairman) – a Read More…
Former child star claims Disney ‘sexualized’ young actresses
The ‘Suite Life’ star says Disney Channel sexualized its young female cast members. (LifeSiteNews) — An actor who starred as a child in a hit Disney Channel show with his twin brother said the network “sexualized” its young actresses. Cole Sprouse, who starred in “The Suite Life of Zach and Cody,” told the New York Times that Read More…
Black adults in the U.S. South more likely than those in other regions to attend a Black congregation
BY JEFF DIAMANT AND BESHEER MOHAMED Worship habits among Black Christians in the South, where African American churches date back to the 1770s, have long differed from practices of Black Americans in other parts of the United States. Contrasting styles of worship were a source of tension after the Civil War and during mass migrations of Southern Black people to Northern cities, when Read More…
The Gantt Report – Who Are The Real Criminals?
By Lucius Gantt US President Joe Biden has described Russian President Valdimir Putin as a “war criminal” after Russia invaded Ukraine and launched missiles, air strikes and cluster bombs into civilian areas that killed more women, children and babies than Ukrainian soldiers. Russian military tactics are nothing new. Tactics used in Ukraine were used Read More…
The Gantt Report – The Wrong Organzation
By Lucius Gantt Too many important Black organizations have declined or have been dissolved. I’m old enough to remember when Black professionals would come together and comfort, nurture, inform and educate each other. The Black media professionals, Black lawyers, Black doctors, Black Nurses, Black educators, Black contractors, Black entertainers, the Black athletes, the Black clergy Read More…