South Florida Times

1 week ago | sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin

The great American tragedy of all time will forever be the enslavement of millions of Africans over 246 years and the government’s refusal for 160 years now to apologize and compensate their descendants. The great tragedy of these times is the vast gulf between the tens of millions who live in poverty, struggling to make ends meet, and the few obscenely wealthy with their multimillion-dollar yachts, private jets, paintings and mansions.

2 weeks ago | sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin

In the checkered sanctuary history of the country, the patriarch of a Jewish family who fled from a dirt shack in the village of what became Belarus to escape the Czar’s army, arrived at Ellis Island on Jan. 7, 1903, with $8 and knowing no English. Wolf-Leib Glosser’s son Nathan joined him and they made a living selling goods on street corners and worked in sweatshops.

3 weeks ago | sfltimes.com | Mohamed Hamaludin

Capetown STOCK PHOTO The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to approve deporting undocumented migrants to South Sudan after a lower court blocked the plan. It is a matter not just about whether President Donald Trump has the authority to take such action but also about the conditions in which the deportees would have to live. South Sudan became a nation only in 2011 after a brutal civil war between the north and south of what was then a unified Sudan.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.