BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: MAY 30, 2018 – 10:18:17 AM What’s your opinion on this article? Americans who fall outside of the categories of rich or wealthy are entangled, trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, lack and poverty. Despite working hard, and ‘doing the right thing,’ economic and financial securityContinue reading “Millions Of Employed Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet”
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How Healthy Is Gentrification Part III
IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS January 12, 2019 Barrington Salmon Barrington Salmon, Commentary, Community, Economy,Featured, Government, Lifestyle, News, NNPA Newswire, Politics, Real Estate 0 In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing stock has have tenants battling spiraling rents and housing costs, and have left them at increased risk of getting displaced. By Barrington M. Salmon, (USCContinue reading “How Healthy Is Gentrification Part III”
How Health Is Gentrification Part I
Lost in the city’s waves of new amenities and newer, more affluent inhabitants, are the long-time Washingtonians who have been pushed out or who are fighting to stay in the city.
Speak Freely with Barrington Salmon
#MaketheMidtermsMeanSomething Reporting from my own blog and followed by an article originally published in the Florida Phoenix, before the election. Episode 1 https://youtu.be/HByjUd4OGmo Florida Phoenix Quality Journalism for Critical Times A Black man who could become Florida’s next governor By Barrington Salmon – October 26, 2018 Andrew Gillum outside of the Tallahassee International AirportContinue reading “Speak Freely with Barrington Salmon”
Anger, pain, protests rock Pittsburgh after police killing of unarmed Black 17-year-old
BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | Originally Published in The Final Call on June 26, 2018 – 11:03:09 AM ‘Lethal force should be an absolute last resort, not a first option’ The city of Pittsburgh is on edge and boiling hot after an East Pittsburgh Police officer with a checkered past shot and killed an unarmedContinue reading “Anger, pain, protests rock Pittsburgh after police killing of unarmed Black 17-year-old”
Angola Prison plaintiffs in federal lawsuit alleging medical neglect await verdict BY
BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- Originally published in The Final Call on NOV 9, 2018 – 9:14:08 PM The Angola State Prison has earned the reputation of being the most notorious prison in Louisiana, which itself has the dubious distinction of being called the incarceration capital of the world. The sprawling 18,000-acre prison complex calledContinue reading “Angola Prison plaintiffs in federal lawsuit alleging medical neglect await verdict BY”
Modern Prisons, Modern Slavery – The prison human rights movement strikes back
BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | Originally published in The Final Call on August 28, 2018 – 11:18:15 AM Men and women behind bars in the U.S.—at great risk to their personal safety—began a national prison strike to protest inhumane living conditions, brutal and abusive prison guards and what they contend is modern-day slavery. RepresentativesContinue reading “Modern Prisons, Modern Slavery – The prison human rights movement strikes back”
Blacks seek their own spaces in the tech world
BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | Originally published in The Final Call on May 23, 2018 – 11:09:01 AM The explosion of digital technology in the U.S. and around the world is commonly described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But civil rights advocates like Marc Morial, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Black legislators in the CongressionalContinue reading “Blacks seek their own spaces in the tech world”
Not Your Brother – Black Christians challenge the racism, hypocrisy of White Christian evangelicals
BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON – CONTRIBUTING WRITER Originally published in The Final Call on September 12, 2018 – 4:27:40 PM WASHINGTON—Twenty-four-years ago, Horatio Fenton and his family became members of a non-denominational church in southern New Jersey that became their spiritual home. Mr. Fenton, who serves as an elder at the church, said over theContinue reading “Not Your Brother – Black Christians challenge the racism, hypocrisy of White Christian evangelicals”
Spying, Targeting and Arresting: The secret police war on Black activists
BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: APR 17, 2018 – 2:56:40 PM AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to More What’s your opinion on this article? A protester rides his bike in front of a police line in Baltimore, April 27, 2015. WASHINGTON—Since 2014, the federal government andContinue reading “Spying, Targeting and Arresting: The secret police war on Black activists”
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