Color of Law
Executive Editor
Over a century-and-a-half after his death, John Brown resonates in a nation that still has not addressed slavery, racial injustice and white supremacy.
At a time when white supremacy poses an existential threat to society, we need the spirit of Malcolm X, and we need more white co-conspirators like…
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Editorial Board
I wanted to tap into the Cape Verdean experience to show the expansive and complicated nature of racism and that the experience with British and “American” oppression in North America was not the only experience of racism,
When I wrote my first published novel, The Man Who Fell From the Sky, I encountered considerable skepticism from a number of friends and colleagues. Why,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Communities may concede the painful loss of one round, but there are still rounds left in this battle.
In the post-Ferguson Uprising period, urban communities across the country began changing the political landscape by electing prosecutors with an agenda for fairness and justice. In…
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Editorial Board
The attacks on poor people are recurrent. Extremist Republicans seem to have contempt and antipathy for those hard-working people who live with low wages and challenging working conditions.
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a tumultuous election to his post as House Speaker in January. It took him fifteen votes and innumerable compromises to secure his…
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Guest Commentator
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Video below is Mr. Belafonte talking about how he became an activist and used his craft to express himself. Freedom Forum Speaking Freely: Harry Belafonte Originally…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
America has a long history of removing Black lawmakers from office, quelling dissent and subverting the will of the voters — all for the sake of raw power, resisting demographic change and maintaining White dominance through antidemocratic and dictatorial means.
As shocking as these expulsions were to many, America has a long history of removing Black lawmakers from office, quelling dissent and subverting the will of…
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Editorial Board
Anyone can offer thoughts and prayers. Who is willing to change policy to protect our students?
The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school, locked and loaded…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Some would call it theft, as in the theft of billions of dollars in federal and state government money to Black institutions. This is systemic racism 150 years in the making - complete with receipts.
A prime example of HBCU underfunding is among the nation’s land-grant institutions, which Congress established with the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The federal government…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
in a settler colonial state, there are two things the settlers fear—Black folks overthrowing the plantation state, and Black folks joining forces with the poor White folks. And they just can’t have that.
America is a settler colonial state. It was created based on the evil triplets of racism, poverty and war, as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,…
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Guest Commentator
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the…
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