Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Motown delivered Black performers into White America’s living room with such elegance that racism had to tap its foot before remembering it was supposed to object.
Tuskegee University - arguably the flagship of historically Black higher education, founded in 1881 because White America considered an educated Black population an absolute threat to…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
In the twisted logic of this political moment, counting racial inequality is treated as a form of racial discrimination, while actual discrimination is rendered invisible.
The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
From ICE raids and protest prosecutions to attacks on universities, journalists, and historical memory, authoritarianism is being embedded in American life.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently – Rosa Luxemburg Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Fascists appeal to a frustrated middle class, and capitalize on an economic crisis or a sense of humiliation or victimhood.
The following is an adaptation of my remarks given at “How to Survive Fascism,” a recent teach-in at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information in…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
We can expect more deadly conflicts with ICE as the midterm elections get closer.
The news of the latest casualties from trump’s war came while he was chillin’ at the FIFA World Cup final. He promised retaliation. Since trump’s attack…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Had Obama taken home a classified White House lunch menu, federal agents would have descended upon his property in armored vehicles.
America has two presidential rulebooks. One is a leather-bound constitutional volume applied to Barack Obama with an electron microscope, written in concrete, wrapped in barbed wire,…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The bipartisan avalanche of selective amnesia to depict Graham as a congenial and amiable fellow who was never confrontational, even with those with whom he was politically at odds, is perversely disingenuous.
Senator Lindsey Graham’s abrupt and untimely death sent shockwaves throughout Washington and the Beltway establishment as well as the larger mainstream media, the pundit class, bloggers,…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
People who had little offered us coffee or water. Cubans spoke candidly about their frustrations. They did not resemble puppets in either Washington’s or Havana’s propaganda.
Fellow traveler” is a phrase dragged from the rhetorical graveyard of the 1950s, when accusation substituted for evidence and dissent became disloyalty. Its appearance in a…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Imagine generations of Americans encountering Tubman not only during Black History Month, but every day - at the ATM, the corner store and the kitchen table. That is why representation on currency matters. It is history placed into circulation.
As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money…
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