Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
This is no longer about liberty. It's about legacy - White legacy.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore…” Golly gee, you’re right - the…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The situation would be different if these young men had collectively decided for themselves to initiate this sports boycott.
Considerable controversy and commentary have continued to cascade through various political, educational, economic, and financial venues ever since the NAACP publicly announced its multilayered “Out of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The purpose of the boycott is to inflict economic damage and cause wider public disapproval of the gerrymandering plans that have been awarded the green light by the enabling SCOTUS decision.
The NAACP has launched a campaign called “Out of Bounds” whose aim is to counter the race-based gerrymandered maps being drawn all over the South, that…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Repression, racism, and war are features of imperialism that have consistently raised their ugly heads under the trump administration.
The historic events and themes gently came together in poetic power. The memorial service for Assata Shakur was held recently at Riverside Church. The space was…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
What kind of people continue offering hospitality when scarcity shapes nearly every aspect of life?
Imagine having electricity for only four hours a day. Now imagine not knowing which four hours. Can you make coffee? Refrigerate medicine? Charge your phone? Will…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
The ongoing weakening of the Department of Education sends a chilling message about national priorities.
Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
When African-Americans begin to view their plight with a human rights lens, they are able to link their predicament with that of people of African descent in Latin America, Europe and throughout the diaspora.
May 19 marks the 101st birthday of Malcolm X, the man who articulated a message of racial justice that made him far ahead of his time.…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The sadistic practice has a long and ugly history. Its cruel, rapacious, and vile legacy is nothing to joke about.
Many people have reacted to “the recent roast of Kevin Hart” - and not exactly positively. The raucous event publicly released on May 10 included acerbic…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
MDS-666 patients become dog tired, drained by the ritual theater of performative America-love: the giant flags, the bald eagles, the truck decals, the AR-15 Christmas cards, and the "freedom" speeches from people who want to ban books, movies, shows, entertainers, and comedians.
I’m writing about MAGA Derangement Syndrome Simplex 666 because apparently, Trump shouldn’t get to have all the imaginary illnesses named after him. If MAGA can diagnose…
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