Commentary
Guest Commentator
Clearly, therefore, this was an act of sadistic violence.
Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old child from Mississippi, is dead because of a dispute about diapers. Let that sink in for a moment. Again, a child who…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
America's oldest fear remains unchanged: not crime, not chaos, not corruption, but equality arriving at the front door without asking permission.
I devoured Iceberg Slim’s slightly iconic “Trick Baby” paperback when I was in, check this, junior high school. Not “middle school,” that soft little rebranding project…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
When juries fail to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve, those biases emerge to the detriment of other non-White defendants, particularly Black defendants, who are often saddled with abnormally unjust sentences.
Nineteen-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder on June 9 and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for fatally stabbing seventeen-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Trump promised not to start any wars and to end existing ones easily and swiftly.
Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Juneteenth wasn't just about celebrating freedom, but also about searching for lost loved ones and lifting each other up in hard times.
Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of Black people and the end of slavery in the U.S. on June 19, 1865. Also known also as Freedom Day, Emancipation…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A budget that takes food from women and children tells us exactly whose lives are expendable.
They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers, and young…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Today's Democratic Party keeps telling itself it has a strategy problem, when what it really has is a lack-of-sheer-nerve problem.
An observation: The National Democratic Party’s deep-rooted, entrenched, velvet-rope “establishment” has more than enough top-shelf political résumés, gold-plated committee titles, donor-dinner polish, and framed certificates of…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
It doesn't have to be this way with the media, as media can become an agent for restorative justice.
The following are remarks I gave at the 2026 Restorative Justice International (RJI) Youth Summit on June 7, 2026, an online event in which hundreds of…
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