Commentary
Editorial Board
The history of American democracy teaches us that administrative mechanisms are rarely neutral.
Frederick Douglass did not know the day he was born. Like many enslaved people, he was denied even the dignity of documentation. Birth dates were approximations.…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Most people in this country don't know these are stolen lands and that the indigenous people have never given up their right to sovereignty and self-determination.
Gil Scott-Heron warned us in1970 that the “revolution will not be televised,” but he could not foresee the cultural hijackings of a corporate world stage by…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
When people of color hear these phrases about what this country is not, it exposes either the political naivete of the speaker or their dormant racism.
“This is not who we are.” “This is not the America we know.” “This is not how the Leader of the Free World acts.” These are…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Acting like inclusion is tyranny, because privilege always thinks equality is theft.
“White Americans have nothing to apologize for,” Senator JD Vance insists, as if the United States didn’t spend centuries perfecting the craft of stealing land, stealing…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Such mistreatment manifested itself in the form of Jim Crow, chattel slavery, lynching, wanton violence, and other abominable forms of marginalization.
Pretty much anyone with a pulse is aware of President Donald Trump’s social media account where he shared a clip of former President Barack Obama and…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A ten-hour reduction in a workweek does not register as unemployment, but it can mean the difference between rent and eviction, medication and delay, food and scarcity.
Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
In a country that has failed to account for its legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and institutional racism - or the role of Black folks in building this nation through blood, sweat and tears - white supremacy lives in America, and with no signs of abatement.
Over five years after a summer of racial justice protests against the police murder of George Floyd, followed by the January 6 white supremacist insurrection at…
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Commentary
I'm gonna check up. I'm gonna check up on this Freedom Train.
Note: This is a poem Langston Hughes wrote about the Underground Railroad which Harriet Tubman conducted. I read in the papers about the Freedom Train I…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Without an honest reckoning, the nation's ability to heal, reconcile, and move forward remains compromised.
This year, Black History Month marks its 100th anniversary. At this pivotal moment - on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary - Black History Month stands…
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