Category: Color of Law

We have a problem here if Black citizens have to rely on the federal government to fight for voting rights in federal court. What if the attorney general is appointed by a president who is hostile toward Black voting rights?

In America, watermelons were a symbol of Black freedom and self-sufficiency when the formerly enslaved grew and sold them after emancipation. For the white supremacist power structure, this was a threat to the racial order and white power.

speaking of criminals, Trump — who has caught more cases than a mob boss — is running for the White House once again, promising to go full fascist with mass deportation raids, a purge of thousands of federal employees, an end birthright citizenship, and a return to the Muslim travel ban.

while Black people are always told to mind their business and keep quiet about foreign affairs that supposedly don’t concern them — the way they told Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to shut up about the Vietnam War and stick to civil rights — we should know and we should care.

Much like American civil rights icon Rosa Parks - who was arrested six decades ago by breaking the law for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man - Tamimi has become the face of a nonviolent movement against injustice.

The U.S. comes in first place in guns per capita, and has the highest firearm homicide rate of the most advanced countries in the world. Our firearm murder rate is 25 times higher than 22 other developed nations, and our gun suicide rate is eight times higher.

It is common among families who own communal land through heirs’ property for developers to entice relatives to sell their share, opening the door for developers to auction off all the land at a profit.

there has been a major realignment, and long story short, the GOP has emerged as the party of white American fascism, anti-Blackness and domestic terrorism.

It is not enough to declare what we abhor. The question is, what do we wish to uphold, and who do we hope to uplift?

Just as America is being forced to address its legacy of enslavement, segregation and systemic racism, the nation must confront the genocide of Indigenous people — who are rendered all but invisible in society — and the role of settler colonialism in building the country.