Category: Color of Law

One hundred years ago, blacks had made substantial gains following the Civil War, including two dozen members of Congress, governors and state legislators. Suddenly, all of that disappeared, not because of black ineptitude, but because of white racism, the tyranny of the majority.

in a nation where the color of your skin can determine where you live, your livelihood and even your life or death, parents of color may feel the need to help their children navigate through a color-coded society fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.

Ultimately, the Occupation is the elephant in the room, a policy which deprives the occupied of their dignity and right to self-determination, and denies the occupiers their humanity and robs them of the opportunity to become a truly democratic state.

Israel is justice for Jews, and redemption from the ashes of the Holocaust. Jews were most certainly the victims of Nazi Germany, but they are not the victims now in Israel.

I wanted to see him grow up, But the Universe had other ideas, other plans for him, Perhaps I’ll never understand,

Decades before Black Lives Matter, Black women were showing up, showing out, and showing us how to do it.

Black Lives Matter started with a few sisters and a social media hashtag, and the rest is history.

In many ways, the public policy debate over weed has come full circle.

through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, the New York community experienced a cultural, intellectual, literary, musical, artistic, fashion and political explosion.

When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In reality, many Black people are among those who are deported, and some of them have served in the U.S. military.