Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
It seems that the state never separated itself from its deadly past of racial violence and racially violent laws.
The future of the nation is in the South, the former Confederacy and ground zero of America’s civil rights struggles. We need only look to a…
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Commentary
A conversation about resistance, coalition, political education—and why progressive movements cannot build lasting power while leaving race at the margins.
When I sat down recently with longtime organizer Eric Mann, I expected us to talk about movement strategy. We did. But before we got very far,…
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Commentary
A failing school should be an oxymoron.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s sobering and provocative September 20 column in The New York Times Magazine - in which she agonized over the decision to send her daughter…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The Democratic elites have ignored criticism of their racial and gender preferences, and now it’s coming to a head.
The elites who run the Democratic Party have been slow learners. For years, the Party has relied on targeting swing states and running centrist, mainly white…
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Commentary
Columnist
Beatty’s is righteous audacity: the moral nerve to confront illegitimate power and refuse to be muted.
Standing up to a bully requires more than slogans, press releases or carefully staged outrage. It requires looking power in the face, refusing intimidation and saying,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
You cannot keep asking Black women to save the house while reminding them to use the service entrance.
But I suspect she also rattles certain Democrats who love diversity dearly - as long as it doesn’t sign their checks, direct their priorities, or tell…
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Cover Story
Executive Editor
It is important for Black children and young people to see their future selves reflected at the front of the classroom - Black teachers as living examples of their future potential.
Kathleen McElroy a Black woman, a preeminent professor and journalist - was hired to revive the journalism program at Texas A&M University. Then came the backlash…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Conservatives such as Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro, and Ron DeSantis have been bitter critics of the brothers and have chastised their fellow conservatives who have embraced the duo. By contrast, others on the conservative right have adopted a “hear no evil, fear no evil, see no evil” non-partisan stance.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the far-right social media influencers and self-described misogynists who command a following of young, angry men on the internet, were arrested in…
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