Category Archives: Journalism

By Barrington Salmon Changing America’s way of life?Y BARRINGTON M. SALMON CONTRIBUTING WRITER @BSALMONDC | LAST UPDATED: MAR 16, 2020 – 11:54:09 PMOriginally published in the Final Call What’s your opinion on this article? WASHINGTON—In recent weeks, Americans grappled with the inevitability of the coronavirus reaching this country. Public anxiety ratcheted up as the numberContinue reading “Changing America’s way of life?”

Originally Published in The Final Call BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON-CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: DEC 25, 2019 – 1:10:15 PM As 2019 draws to a close, Black people across the country are engaged in the timeless ritual of looking back over the prior 12 months to access their gains and losses personally and across andContinue reading “A Political ‘mixed bag’ for Blacks”

Democrats, Black folks and the latest presidential debate This article was originally published in The Final Call BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: DEC 2, 2019 – 12:21:49 PM Black women have proven over time to be the most dependable and consistent bloc of voters for the Democratic party, powering candidates toContinue reading “Ally or Adversary?”

This Article was originally published in The Final Call BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: NOV 14, 2019 – 10:18:58 AM A crowd some of Rodney Reed’s family members estimated was about 1,000 people, recently gathered at the Governor’s Mansion in Austin, Texas demanding that Gov. Greg Abbott act to halt theContinue reading “Justice for Rodney Reed! Family, supporters press Texas governor for new trial for man on death row”

BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: NOV 6, 2019 – 10:18:39 AM This article was originally published in The Final Call WASHINGTON—Entertainment mogul Byron Allen said the genesis of a $20 billion lawsuit he filed against Comcast Corp. came from a conversation and a question posed to him by Obama administration officials.Continue reading “Money, Power, Respect and Major High Court Case”

This article was originally published in The Final Call By Barrington Salmon Contributing Writer WASHINGTON—Three years into his presidency, Donald Trump has taken a hatchet to the country’s institutions and upended more than two centuries of accepted presidential norms.  Historians, presidential experts, academics, scholars and swathes of the public are alarmed and dismayed by whatContinue reading “‘Trump has done Irreversible Damage’”

BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON CONTRIBUTING WRITER @BSALMONDC | LAST UPDATED: SEP 11, 2019 – 9:27:46 AM Perhaps it was inevitable that the National Football League would not be immune to the raw, angry clashes around race that have exploded into super bursts of toxic energy around the country particularly since wannabe cop George Zimmerman shotContinue reading “Race, Class and Privilege and the NFL’s Unresolved Issues”

<!–/* /cgi-bin/artman2/wz_tooltip.js */–> The Final Call The Final Call | National News Millions Of Employed Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet By Barrington M. Salmon – Contributing Writer- | Last updated: May 30, 2018 – 10:18:17 AM   <!–/* /cgi-bin/artman2/wz_tooltip.js */–> Millions Of Employed Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet By Barrington M. Salmon –Continue reading

21st August 2019 By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — A coalition of racial justice and civil rights organizations, based in Charlottesville, Va., has launched a campaign to force Twitter to respond to widespread concerns that Twitter allows white supremacists to flourish on its platform. The Change the Terms Coalition was deliberate in timing theContinue reading “Coalition pressuring Twitter to shut down white supremacist accounts”