Victor Trammell is a digital media producer, freelance journalist, and author. Mr. Trammell primarily covers current events at the Your Black World Network for online news. He previously was a writer for the Michael Baisden Show.
By Guest Contributor Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg As Afrikan people, we need to establish more cable news media platforms in America - to force the world to respect the diversity of Black perspectives, especially the radical, progressive, socialist, communist, Afrocentric, Black nationalist, and Pan-Afrikan views.
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America, not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.”
By Guest Contributor Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” —W.E.B. Du Bois
Homelessness is booming. The meaning of family ain't the same. Homes foreclosed from loans, 'Cause debt is STILL a banker's game.
The sordid saga of disgraced and deceased financier Jeffery Epstein has failed to go away months after his purported jailhouse suicide in August 2019.
After the closing of Election Day on November 8, 2016, voters in the U.S. state of Kansas made history by electing the first-ever black District Attorney in the state’s 29th judicial division.
A young man who is both a newly-crowned Super Bowl champion and the new face of the NFL has just inked an astronomical franchise deal, which will make him the highest-paid athlete in any professional sport.