Color of Law
Executive Editor
Lawmakers will band together to ban an app, raise their salaries or bomb Brown babies in a foreign country, but they will not lift a pen to end hunger, stop mass shootings or make college free.
The reelection of Donald John Trump to the highest office in the land - following two impeachments, leadership in an insurrection and all sorts of criminal…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
I know that the struggle against racism that King talked about is only legitimate if I am also fighting anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, and classism - not only out in the world but also in myself.
MLK Day 2025 marks the 40th holiday observance. The theme, “Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom, Justice, and Democracy in the Spirit of Nonviolence365,” is challenging in this…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
In 2005, an Advocate reporter asked him why he had no problem with gays and lesbians like many Christians. “I’m a worshipper of Jesus Christ, who never mentioned homosexuals in any way - certainly not in a deleterious fashion,” Carter replied.
Jimmy the Baptist Carter grew up as a Southern Baptist and was the first U. S. president to announce unabashedly he was a “born again” Christian.…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
You can almost hear him now, lounging at Mar-a-Lago, doodling crude sketches of “Mount Trump” on a cocktail napkin between rounds of Diet Coke and grievance tweets.
Manifest Destiny: the original delusion of grandeur. A cocktail of American exceptionalism and Romantic White nationalism, it was based on the absurd belief that White men…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
This is our teachable moment to take a hard look at these practices and make meaningful changes.
When a bombastic trump was on the campaign trail in 2016, he boasted he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Global retaliation is sure to follow trump’s short-sighted tactic.
Not sworn in yet as the 47th president, trump is already bragging about what he will do on Day One of his presidency. The announcement of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
For the second time this century, Americans rejected a woman to lead the nation. If they weren’t ready to trust a woman for the job, they were even more apprehensive to trust a woman of color.
An avalanche of political commentary on Donald Trump’s notable presidential win erupted on the morning of November 6th. The media blogger sphere unleashed itself as politicians,…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Millions of people are now at risk, including the white folks who voted for the pain.
The Mango Mussolini is back. And it is possible to say that the comeback of Donald Trump is both shocking and a quintessentially American phenomenon. We…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
While it’s true that black men are a vital voting bloc, they are not a monolith.
The last time I saw a huge gathering of Black men was the Million Man March in 1995. They came to the nation’s capital to voice…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
every single one of us holds power in our hands.
I love election season! I love the act of voting. I’ve been loving it since I was seven and my mom let me pull the lever…
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