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Ask Dr. Kevin: Clinical Trials are the Foundation for Scientific Innovation
By Dr. Kevin Williams, Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer The “Ask Dr. Kevin” series is brought to you by Pfizer Rare Disease in collaboration with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to increase understanding of sickle cell disease. Dr. Kevin Williams is the Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer where he leads…
Peace and Strength
By Angela Sailor My daughter’s name is Alamni. It means “the one who brings peace.” She is in her second year at the United States Military Academy, the first in our family to join the ranks of the Long Gray Line. As her name suggests, her dream of becoming a West Point cadet was not…
House Judiciary Impeachment Hearings
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A few days ago brilliant constitutional law professors testified in Congress on the grounds for impeachment after hearing the facts coming from the Intelligence Committee under the direction of Chairman Adam Schiff. If anyone had told me before this hearing that Professor Jonathan Turley would have taken…
Black Communities Are Making A Difference In The Fight Against AIDS
By Marc Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “The fact that there’s a conversation that occurs on an annual basis on World AIDS Day is significant. The fact that the President of the United States, on an annual basis, now, comments and discusses AIDS, keeps it on the agenda. I think a very, very concrete outcome of that…
More Truths About Guns in America
By Marian Wright Edelman On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, Minnesota, was killed when he was accidentally shot in the chest by a 15-year-old friend playing with a stolen gun in our gun saturated nation. Da’Qwan and a group of friends were playing…
African-American Boys and Men in America Are Killing Themselves and No One Seems To Care
By Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr. PharmD. Senior Science Advisor, Men’s Health Network African-American boys and men in America continue to kill themselves at an alarming rate. Over the past several months the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released several reports about the demographics of this national disgrace. African-American men and boys continue to…
By Beverly Gadson-Birch The Federal Courtroom in downtown Charleston had standing room only on Tuesday as Timothy Taylor awaited his fate on federal charges. Taylor was involved in a McDonald’s robbery back in 2011 and sentenced in state court under the Youthful Offender’s Act to 5 years’ probation. However, Federal authorities intervened after receiving a tip from…
Read MoreBy Barney Blakeney Through the benevolence of some friends, I’m getting to know some of the presidential hopefuls. I heard Kamala Harris at the Charleston Branch NAACP banquet – Education Committee Chair Stephen Cofer Shabica gave me a ticket and Sunday Pete Buttigieg’s S.C. Political Director Abe Jenkins invited me to a roundtable discussion on…
Read MoreBy Hakim Abdul-Ali Just recently I was in a conversation with an acquaintance of mine and the topic dealt with the aspect of worrying. It’s an arena of “hue-man” thought engagement that causes a lot of ethnic folk headaches and heartbreaks. I can straightforwardly admit that at one time I was overly concerned about some…
Read MoreBy Beverly Gadson-Birch Now that Thanksgiving festivities are over, we find ourselves dead smack into Christmas parades, shopping and more shopping. It’s time to leave the blighted past behind and lighten up a bit this week. My head is full of euphemisms from summers spent with grandma Lula. She would say “you pay for your learning.”…
Read MoreBy Barney Blakeney I was struck by the outcome of the November 5 municipal elections in Charleston and North Charleston. They signaled changes occurring right in front of our faces – reminded me of the old Buddy Miles song. The Charleston City Council District 3 election resulted in an upset victory for Jason Sakran who…
Read MoreBy Hakim Abdul-Ali Sadly, here I go again addressing an arena where apparent self-hatred about one’s features seems to be an apparent issue for me to address once again. This time it stems from actually hearing a young high school female of color tell another acquaintance in a convenience store situation that she didn’t like…
Read MoreTO ALL CONCERNED: People there has been an extremely pressing issue facing us all daily—global warming. Since the first so-called settlers invaded these lands there has been an environmental injustice plagued upon the indigenous people. After slavery the injustice continued until today. Big corporations have ignored the cries of the people to “save our…
Read MoreMy name is Trojan Bell and I am writing this letter again in hopes that some outside influence from Washington, D.C. can look into the practices of the North Charleston Police Department (NCPD). In 2005 Sheriff Al Cannon asked for the NCPD to be investigated. The investigation by SLED turned out to be an assassination…
Read MoreRural households across our nation spend a disproportionate share of their income on energy bills. It’s a huge problem in the South, especially in low-income homes. It is not right that people face decisions of should they buy a prescription, food or pay their utility bill. Since 2012, Santee Cooper, the state-owned and largest utility,…
Read MoreSocial media plays an important role in today’s digital world. We use these channels to stay connected to friends and family and build communities. One of the biggest benefactors of social media, however, has been America’s small businesses – small businesses like ours, Charleston Gourmet Burger Company. As a husband and wife team that is…
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