Commentary
Guest Commentator
Reactionary populists have made their intentions clear to resist compromising their culturally exclusionary agendas compared to their more fair-minded conservative forebears.
For people who believe that only straight, heterosexual White men should be in charge of running powerful agencies or even a country, these are interesting times.…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The history of American democracy teaches us that administrative mechanisms are rarely neutral.
Frederick Douglass did not know the day he was born. Like many enslaved people, he was denied even the dignity of documentation. Birth dates were approximations.…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Such mistreatment manifested itself in the form of Jim Crow, chattel slavery, lynching, wanton violence, and other abominable forms of marginalization.
Pretty much anyone with a pulse is aware of President Donald Trump’s social media account where he shared a clip of former President Barack Obama and…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A ten-hour reduction in a workweek does not register as unemployment, but it can mean the difference between rent and eviction, medication and delay, food and scarcity.
Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February,…
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Commentary
I'm gonna check up. I'm gonna check up on this Freedom Train.
Note: This is a poem Langston Hughes wrote about the Underground Railroad which Harriet Tubman conducted. I read in the papers about the Freedom Train I…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Without an honest reckoning, the nation's ability to heal, reconcile, and move forward remains compromised.
This year, Black History Month marks its 100th anniversary. At this pivotal moment - on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary - Black History Month stands…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Anyone who has a pulse and is socially and culturally aware recognizes the current challenges facing Black Americans and other BIPOC.
To paraphrase the UK’s, late Queen Elizabeth II when she referred to 1992 in a speech delivered at Guildhall on November 24th as “a year that…
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Cover Story
Guest Commentator
Photos of Liam's eyes, filled with fear and confusion, emotions no child should ever endure, have sent chills down many Americans' spines. Americans are distressed and horrified.
On January 24, federal agents murdered a registered nurse, Alex Pretti, 37, working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Black Americans are told this is none of our concern. That is precisely why it should be.
Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant - something for diplomats, generals, and elites in places most of us will never see. We…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
History teaches us that unchecked state power - especially when fueled by rumor, fear, and racialized suspicion - rarely stops with its first target.
The United States insists it cannot afford housing, jobs, or care. Yet it can always afford cages. Immigration enforcement is not a response to crisis; it…
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