COMMENTARY #1        LISTEN NOW!*

Marjorie Arsht’s unique journey, a political and social history of Texas.  Marjorie Meyer Arsht, a long-time friend and supporter of the Lincoln Institute is now 91, and she has recently published a memoir All the Way from Yoakum, that’s Yoakum, Texas, published by the Texas A&M Press…

COMMENTARY #2        LISTEN NOW!*

While much of the black community is in crisis, self-proclaimed leaders refuse to confront the communities’ culture of failure, or so argues Juan Williams, prominent author who wrote the famous book and best-seller Enough….

COMMENTARY #3        LISTEN NOW!*

Tuskegee Airmen, thanks for your service.  Elmore M. Kennedy Jr. at age 90 was one of the dwindling number of the original group of Tuskegee Airmen (that 27 or 28 or so who served during World War II) and died of complications of a stroke recently in Newark, Delaware…

COMMENTARY #4        LISTEN NOW!*

John Fulton Lewis, a friend and a patriot.  It was with great sadness that we at the Lincoln Institute learned of the death of John Fulton Lewis on August the 3rd, 2006.  John was 84 years old and spent 63 years as a reporter, an editor, a broadcaster and public relations man….
 

COMMENTARY #5        LISTEN NOW!*

Urban crime, a continuing problem and a sign of societal breakdown in the inner city.  Crime in the nation’s inner cities is, in many parts of the country, continuing to grow.  Recently, the Philadelphia Daily News pointed out that as of August 31, murders in that city totaled 261, eleven more than the same period in 2005….
 

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