Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Trump was not on November’s ballot, but the Congress capable of restraining him certainly was. Who will tell the man in the White House, No, Mr. President, you cannot do that?
President Barack Obama is telling the truth and shaming the devil. And judging by his latest speech he’s finished pretending the devil deserves the customary courtesies…
Continue reading 17 min
Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
In African spirituality, and many indigenous cultures, the ancestors are among us and connected to us, part of the living and spiritual realms.
We live in a time, not unlike the entire history of this country, where the lives of Black people are undervalued, discounted, disregarded and ended through…
Continue reading 6 min
Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
If Black leaders are not improving the material conditions of their people, they are worthless. Vibes are not enough and will not put food on the table.
Rula Jebreal is an Afro-Palestinian woman whose people have been in the middle of a genocide these past three years. She recently became embroiled in controversy…
Continue reading 5 min
Cover Story
Columnist
Beatty’s is righteous audacity: the moral nerve to confront illegitimate power and refuse to be muted.
Standing up to a bully requires more than slogans, press releases or carefully staged outrage. It requires looking power in the face, refusing intimidation and saying,…
Continue reading 5 min
Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
It seems that the state never separated itself from its deadly past of racial violence and racially violent laws.
The future of the nation is in the South, the former Confederacy and ground zero of America’s civil rights struggles. We need only look to a…
Continue reading 5 min
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
You cannot keep asking Black women to save the house while reminding them to use the service entrance.
But I suspect she also rattles certain Democrats who love diversity dearly - as long as it doesn’t sign their checks, direct their priorities, or tell…
Continue reading 8 min
Cover Story
Executive Editor
It is important for Black children and young people to see their future selves reflected at the front of the classroom - Black teachers as living examples of their future potential.
Kathleen McElroy a Black woman, a preeminent professor and journalist - was hired to revive the journalism program at Texas A&M University. Then came the backlash…
Continue reading 9 min
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Fascists appeal to a frustrated middle class, and capitalize on an economic crisis or a sense of humiliation or victimhood.
The following is an adaptation of my remarks given at “How to Survive Fascism,” a recent teach-in at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information in…
Continue reading 5 min
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Imagine generations of Americans encountering Tubman not only during Black History Month, but every day - at the ATM, the corner store and the kitchen table. That is why representation on currency matters. It is history placed into circulation.
As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money…
Continue reading 5 min
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Their presence was not random theater. It was a message, polished in menace and wrapped in cowardice: we are here, we are organized, we are not afraid, and we believe this country belongs to us by blood title.
At some point, at some point, when push comes to shove, a socially/economically polarized decadent empire like the good ol’ US of A has to, I…
Continue reading 6 min