TriceEdneyWire.com — Nero, the Roman emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis. The great Rome fire took place in the first century AD.…
The Nathan Bedford Forrest bust has been an Achilles’ heel for many in Nashville for decades. It took the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement to help secure the removal of this nemesis from the hall of our State Capitol. By a…
While in the midst of proclaiming Black Lives Matter, (and I agree) I want to make it clear that all Black Lives Matter, including Black women and children. It shouldn’t be necessary to say that, but it is. To matter…
What can be more insulting for most Africans Americans than to be told, “All lives matter” by someone of the dominate White population? The average Black doesn’t know whether the person is being naïve, sarcastic or just plain racist. It…
This week, I convened a bipartisan group of Senators to read aloud Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘A Letter from a Birmingham Jail.’ This was the second year I’ve done this, and I hope to make it an annual tradition. I…
For Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, the global outpouring of protests and activism following the alleged murder of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody has been heartening and makes her hopeful for the future. At the same time,…
