Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Respect is not silence. Patriotism is not obedience. No flag gets to demand worship while standing over that much unfinished business.
Upside Down for a Reason July in America arrives wearing Polyester plaid, borrowed honesty, historical amnesia, and a “Made in China” flag pin. Every year, this…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
White Christian nationalists are exporting their American culture wars to Africa and getting people killed with "kill the gays" laws, and we see what they are doing.
White Christian nationalists are exporting their American culture wars to Africa and getting people killed with “kill the gays” laws, and we see what they are…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Congress can act. The administration can halt deportations. Communities can protect their neighbors.
Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose labor is welcomed when…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Clearly, the nation's first Black first lady - glamorous, accomplished, and unapologetic - still lives, rent-free, in the minds of Trump and his MAGA supporters.
The, abhorrent comments directed at former First Lady Michelle Obama by a UFC fighter a few weeks ago, were not only offensive and inappropriate, but they…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The world's richest man embodies an oligarchic system that turns exploitation into achievement, racism into political spectacle, and unchecked private wealth into a weapon against democracy.
You can't have capitalism without racism.—Malcolm X Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue,…
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Cover Story
Staffer
Seek good advice and set a good example for other young men and women and the US as a whole.
The joy, of course, was for the unbounded joy of every minute of the day. The speeches were uplifting. Views of the Center showcased amazing architecture,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Our ancestors gifted us with the concept of Sankofa, which translates to "go back and get it." This means that we must examine the past to inform, build, and guide our future.
Coming out of jubilant Juneteenth celebrations, most Black people in the U.S. are feeling far less celebratory towards the 4th of July in 2026. We have…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
In a nation in denial over systemic racism, freedom is elusive for the descendants of the enslaved.
On this Fourth of July, a day of independence for some but not for Black people, there is no better time to reflect on Frederick Douglass’…
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