Ron Thompson

Wendy Wright   Nick Bunick says it’s time the world knew how religion has failed humanity, and how the Christian Church has distorted the teachings of Jesus. He also says that the scribes who painstakingly translated the Gospels from Aramaic to Greek and then to Latin, were ordered to deliberately distort some truths. The scribes were instructed to replace messages […]

Today at 5pm on Beauty, Brains & the Bottom Line, Dr. SaFiya Hoskins interviews Dr. Carol O’Connor, author of the forthcoming, Relevance in the Curriculum: Reaching the Reluctant Reader. Dr. O’Connor states:      “Many students report that they do not read outside the school setting, and large numbers do so reluctantly – if at all – […]

In the weeks leading up to midterm elections, California based Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) was kept busy speaking out in favor of Prop-19, the initiative to legalize, tax and regulate cannabis in the state.  Although narrowly defeated by a 54% to 46% margin, LEAP’s efforts assured that voters were very aware that many high profile law enforcement […]

Wendy Wright 61% of Americans think our nation is on the wrong track. Our economy is suffering; our schools don’t work; we don’t have affordable health care; Social Security is about to collapse; our government is broken. People are angry, suspicious, and worried about the decisions our elected leaders are making. So much of the […]

Tune in to Beauty, Brains & the Bottom Line this Saturday, December 4th at 5pm est as author LaOta Rassoull joins Dr. SaFiya to discuss her book, Food for Life: Transitional Recipes for Food Combining & Blood Typing.  This full color cookbook provides a “one-size-does-not-fit-all” understanding of the food we eat and a detailed study […]

  A 1998 incident became national news when Ruth Ann Sherman, a teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn, introduced her students to the book Nappy Hair by African American author Carolivia Herron. Sherman, who is white, was criticized by parents of black children, who thought that the book presented a negative stereotype. During August 2007, American Lawyer […]

   “The segregationists and racists make no fine distinction between the Negro and the Jew.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   Jews make up 2% of the total US population, yet 45% of the top 40 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are Jews. The percentage of Jewish households with income greater than $50,000 is double […]

  People are angry, suspicious, and worried about the decisions our elected leaders are making. So much of the public dialogue regarding these important issues is based on half-truths and sound bites, framed in histrionics, and too far to the left or the right to allow for common sense. Whether it’s energy, education, health care, […]

  “We often had an incentive to structure a problem so as to assure failure and, therefore, a good campaign issue [for all of us].” – Former member of Congress • Why do politicians who seek genuine solutions to our gravest problems often lose elections? • Why do lawmakers who knowingly let our problems grow worse stay in […]

  “The segregationists and racists make no fine distinction between the Negro and the Jew.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The story of Black-Jewish relations in the US is a long and complex one. Jews were among those who worked to establish the NAACP in 1909 and African-American newspapers were among the first in the US to […]