August 2015 Blog Posts (16)

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable is pleased to award the Prison Radio a special medical grant award to insure the proper medical needs of Mumia Abu. His…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There isn’t much left in the way of pejoratives that can’t and haven’t been said about Vester Flanagan. He was disturbed, deranged, a psychopath, maniacal, the epitome of evil, and a flat out nut job. The pejoratives dumped on him are certainly much…

“Fences” the sixth entry of the late playwright August Wilson’s  (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005) ten play cycle. Each cycle represents a decade of the 20^th Century. Set in the 1950’s, the main character is Troy Maxson (played by Michael Sheppard), a 50 something man who makes his living as a sanitation worker. He has a wife Rose

(Karole Freeman) who despite the circumstances makes the best of what has been handed to her. They have a son Cory (Jermelle Simon) a dutiful son…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There was a very fleeting moment in the aftermath of the Katrina debacle, August 29, 2005, that the message that there are a lot of poor in New Orleans and America who are routinely ignored,…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

I can't tell you how many times I sparred with former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond on TV shows and in print during the years he headed the NAACP over the policy and direction of the NAACP. No matter how fierce our debate, I was always…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Democratic Party’s single biggest worry in the run up to the 2016 presidential campaign should not be which GOP contender its nominee will face. It should be can the Democratic nominee do what President Obama did in 2008 and again in 2012 and turn the campaign…

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That was not a debate; that was a Foxy (slick and sly) Question and Answer session designed to smear President Barack Obama.

As an African American, I thought it shameful, disgraceful and repugnant that not a single White Fox News reporter, male or female, in either debate, asked about the big news of the day from these people seeking the votes of the American public.

That news this week was the 50^th anniversary of the signing of the…

Watts: Fifty Years after the Flames…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The debate has fiercely raged ever since the first modern era glamour presidential debate in 1960 between Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon over whether…

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The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Cash Award for August on Monday, August 3. The August award recipient is The Urban Oasis Film Academy in Los Angeles. Its…

Danger Sign in Bail for Alleged Cincinnati Police Shooter

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Predictably it took almost no time for ex-University of Cincinnati Cop Ray Tensing who is charged with the murder of unarmed motorist Samuel Dubose to make his $1 million bail. His father allegedly put up his…