Color of Law
Executive Editor
these images only reinforce racist and homophobic stereotypes and stigmas and undercut the public health response to diseases.
As the monkeypox virus spreads—and the media hype up this outbreak into the new COVID pandemic—news organizations are racializing and colorizing this new virus du jour.…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Is there a way to keep racist white men from legally buying guns and using them on us at will? I think there is.
The safe places for Black folks are dwindling. In America, we’ve been shot down in cold blood in our places of worship, our homes, our schools,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The Buffalo massacre has once again placed freedom of speech and tech industry accountability in the spotlight.
The Buffalo, N.Y, shooter used tech platforms to plan his mass murder of 10 Black people in a Tops supermarket. Now is the time to hold…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
This massacre provides President Biden with an opportunity to embrace Ethnic Studies and encourage it as an antidote to hate.
President Joe Biden was uncharacteristically, but appropriately, angry and firm when he described white supremacy as “poison.” He spoke from Buffalo days after a putrid young…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
They’re more concerned about the leak than the overturning of a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is outraged by Justice Samuel Alito’s leak of the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade. He decreed that the court…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commetator
One of the most striking things about the Alito draft is its rage. These judicial moles have watched, and waited, and bided their time, pretending to be sober jurists until their moment came around. Now, the fury is unleashed.
I can’t imagine what it is like to be a woman in the United States of America today. If I feel the blow of Samuel Alito’s…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
If you can’t work, you can’t repay your student loans, but if you can’t repay your student loans, you can’t work. While this situation is challenging for everyone, it is much worse for Black women.
Graduations are an exciting time for most families. They will throng to auditoriums, gymnasiums, churches, or outdoor settings bearing flowers, balloons, and other goodies. They’ll likely…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Along the way, the day devoted to saving our only habitat became a day of meaningless slogans and actions that make the general public and the guilty polluters feel good.
Earth Day was born on April 22, 1970. It was the brainchild of a liberal senator in Wisconsin who went on to become the governor. Gaylord…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
It is still a conservative court and with civil and constitutional rights laws under unprecedented assault, we are poised to witness legislative and judicial decisions that will take us backward real fast.
We celebrated the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the new US Supreme Court Justice. Jackson’s endurance of the GOP’s venom had little to do with…
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