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1 week ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
African Americans and others who read The Washington Post probably notice its motto at the top of the front page: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Not many readers probably know that warning is based om a ruling by an African American judge. The late Damon J. Keith, sitting on the Cincinnati-based Sixth Court of Appeals, issued the ruling in 2002 on a First Amendment case. Another “minority” person, Praveen Madhiraju, helped craft it while serving as Wright’s law clerk.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
A New York University Gallatin School class picked a colleague, Logan Rozos, to deliver the graduation speech on May 15. The Cultural Criticism and Political Economy student describes himself as “an actor, artist and gay Black trans man” and is an advocate for LGBT people. There was a lot he could talk about but, as he made his way to the stage, something happening nearly 6,000 miles away was obviously on his mind.
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3 weeks ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
When entrepreneur Henry Flagler pushed to make Miami a city, which happened on July 28, 1896, the 368 residents at the time voted for it, among them 162 people of African descent. When he decided to build what eventually became the Florida East Coast Railway in the 1880s, opening up tourism and economic opportunities, he brought in African American workers from Georgia and Bahamians.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
The United States leads the developed world in the number of immigrants, around 50 million, with the undocumented at 11 million, for an overall 20 percent of the population, Bruno Venditti reported in Visual Capitalist last December. Many came from countries which were destabilized as the U.S. – and other Western powers – pursued economic, security and imperialist imperatives.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
The Trump administration recently went on the offensive against some of the nation’s top-tier colleges and universities, threatening to withhold billions of dollars in annual federal grants, especially for research, if the schools do not comply with a series of demands. Some of the leaders of socalled Ivy League schools capitulated.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
Hialeah, the Florida city where 94 percent of the population identify as Hispanic or Latino, recently explored the possible annexation of several predominantly African American communities but abandoned the plan. Alarmed by the takeover threat, those neighborhoods are demanding that the Miami-Dade County Commission allows them to establish their own city.
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1 month ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
“Western civilization” and “the entire destiny of humanity” are about to end, at least as far as Elon Musk is concerned. But doomsday could have been averted on April 1 – All Fools’ Day – if Wisconsin voters had elected a Republican to the state Supreme Court, according to him. That would have forestalled an eventual Democratic takeover of Congress because the vote essentially “was for which party controls the US House of Representatives,” even though it had nothing to do with federal elections.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
Polls have shown that President Donald Trump’s election victory was aided partly by increased support from young men. Some reports point to the influence of podcasters as an important reason for the shift from the Democratic Party, particularly among African Americans. While European Americans host most of podcasts, so do some African Americans and many deal with a variety of topics.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
A slim majority of voters picked Donald Trump for a second presidential term. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a president has almost total immunity while performing the duties of his office. Fortified by those two mandates, Trump has proceeded to deploy the vast powers of the presidency to radically restructure the federal government. The critics are many and a few federal judges have blocked some of his actions, but he remains largely unchecked.
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2 months ago | 
sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin
A former Cuba intelligence chief claimed in 2006 that 634 assassination plots and attempts were made to kill Fidel Castro. The CIA was behind some of them, NBC News reported, citing a 1975 U.S. Senate report. The CIA’s efforts included hiring mobsters Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante Jr., both on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, and poisoning Castro’s cigars, pills and scuba-diving suits, and using dynamite. A plot to have his lover poison his drink ended up in a love-making bout.
