Commentary
Editorial Board
From campaign dominance to policy control, the concentrtion of wealth among billionaires is transforming participatory democracy into a system of elite rule.
Wealth holders experience outcomes abstractly This is not about personal virtue. It is about structure. When your income is derived from your labor, you are usually…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
After all, a white man acting in the interests of the enslaved to overthrow the plantation police state was the greatest fear for white supremacist Southerners.
At a time when white supremacy poses an existential threat to society, we need the spirit of Malcolm X, and we need more white co-conspirators like…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
If they want to strip Black citizens of political influence, then perhaps Black athletes should strip those states of Saturday glory.
No political representation, no athletic participation. That ought to be the new calculation, simple enough for even the fat cat good ol’ boys in the luxury…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Today, we find ourselves without voter protections and potentially just a legislative action or court ruling away from no right to vote.
A recent excerpt of Dr. Eddie Glaude’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on voting rights went viral. Glaude is a frequent guest on “MS…
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Cover Story
Guest Commentator
To pretend otherwise is engaging in willful ignorance and denial.
Upon hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s six conservative justices had callously dismantled to the last vestiges the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), I, like…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
He sits on the highest court in the land like a thundercloud over Black America's hard-won progress, using the robe not as a symbol of justice, but as camouflage for betrayal with a law degree.
Clarence Thomas has played the role of judicial undertaker for modern voting rights, standing at the edge of hard-won Black political power with a shovel in…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A project delayed, a program underfunded, a priority shifted. The fight over maps is, at its core, a fight over whether under-investment will persist.
Elections aren’t supposed to stop midstream, but in Louisiana, they did. After the Supreme Court stepped into the state’s redistricting fight, Governor Jeff Landry halted congressional…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Facing threats to their land from climate change, hurricanes and rising sea levels, Black folks in the Sea Islands and Lowcountry are hoodwinked and bamboozled by gentrification and corporate interlopers.
Systemic racism takes many forms, not the least of which is land theft. Simply put, Black people have lost a staggering amount of property over the…
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