Category: Commentary

Unlike many of today's so-called leaders, he would not have sacrificed his people or political constituencies for his own personal gain but would have seen that, despite the progress made, there was still considerable work to do to "get to the Promised Land."

When that man who lives in the House Enslaved People Built claims that white people are discriminated against by civil rights laws, he is not offering a provocative aside. He is attempting to invert King's moral framework.

The outright falsehoods about the Minneapolis incident the Trump administration and the right-wing media echo chamber are manufacturing are problematic for many reasons

This is what voter suppression looks like in the 21st century: clean, quiet, and legally defensible - until you look at who it affects.

Thus, they have to live a life filled with hypocrisies and facades, participating in sham marriages while sheltering, disguising, and obscuring their sexuality, denouncing their fellows, and practicing self-hatred.

Predictably, a segment of Americans feel they have been granted permission to engage in unhinged behavior thanks to a commander-in chief who marginalizes, if not outright excuses, excessive and incendiary remarks from supporters.

We cannot celebrate the season while ignoring the message embedded in the manger. Housing insecurity is not a moral failure of individuals - it is a policy failure of government and society.

This entire ecosystem of discount culture is built on someone else being discounted. What do we really gain from chasing sales that were never sales in the first place?