Kris Broughton

Kris Broughton

Big Think Contributor, Resurgence Blog

Kris Broughton, a veteran of the financial services industry, combines searing opinions with emotionally engaging commentary to provide insightful, original criticism of today's social and political events. His work has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Reuters, the Post Tribune, Beacon News, and TV ONE Online.

There are two different types of narratives about the Haiti tragedy these days — the ones shown each evening on the nightly news programs of the major television networks and […]
It only took me a few minutes, after I tuned into the tail end of Obama’s America: 2010 And Beyond on television the other night, to see that we Americans […]
When you live in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration is not just a one day affair. Here we have King Week activities, galas and marches for days. […]
If character is the thing you have when you lose everything else, then the people of Haiti must be full to bursting with it. The photos and video of the […]
When I began listening to the recorded testimony of Wall Street banking executives to Congress Wednesday on C-Span, I started to feel like I was sitting in a circle at […]
The chatter in the media these past few days seems to have borne out a W.E.B. DuBois observation — “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the […]
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada has had all of political America talking about an issue that used to be confined mostly to the African American community — whether or not […]