Philosophy and Brief History of Strong Points

Strong Points, also known as Strong Points Online, is a website providing commentary that is hard hitting, poignant, direct and appealing. The site offers opinion on racial, religious, social, political, cultural, artistic and other matters from an African-American progressive perspective.

The creator of the website is James Strong. Strong is a writer, journalist, columnist and film-maker, who has more than 35 years working in print, broadcast and electronic media. He is the author of the Strong Points column, which he has written for more than 35 years and from which the Strong Points website emanated. The website essentially, then, represents Strong’s views.

Over the years, several black newspapers have published the Strong Points columns, including the Arizona Informant, The Birmingham Times, the Eagle News, The New Journal and Guide, Speakin’ Out News and the New York Amsterdam News, to name a few.

At one point, the Strong Points column spawned a TV current affairs program, also called “Strong Points,” in the Washington, D.C., area; an internet radio public affairs segment called “Strong Pointz in a Minute,” which was heard on www.im4radio.com in Largo, Maryland; and numerous appearances on local and national TV and radio programs.

In fact, Strong has expanded his media ventures by reviving the Strong Points TV show, now called the “Strong Points Talk Show”; filming documentaries; working on webcasts; and producing podcasts.

Strong also owned a software development company, called Spectronics Communications, Inc, which contracted with telecommunications companies, federal agencies and other firms. The company offered technical writing, software development and project management services to these organizations.

Over the years, Strong has also worked as a volunteer and mentor to young black men and women, as well as others of various races and ethnic groups. He has especially enjoyed mentoring incarcerated black, Latino, Asian and white males in various local and federal prisons in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., areas.