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Uninvited, Unwanted, Unstoppable: America’s ‘Welcome Mat’ Is Still Missing

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We will continue to rise, to build, to demand a place at this table - even if they keep pretending it’s not set for us.

Ah, 2025. Still the unwelcomed house guests in a nation that built itself on our blood, sweat, and tears. Still marginalized, still the afterthought in the…

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A House Divided – Diversity or Dominance? The Battle for America’s Soul

By Desi Cortez Columnist

It’s time to either confront this country’s demons or allow them to destroy what remains of this so-called “house.”

Let’s be real, let’s be brutally blunt, but for a fleeting moment - if we’re honestly able to, as a fractured and disjoined, decadent empire. We,…

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Burn, Baby, Burn!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I find any plantation where my ancestors were enslaved - now serving as event centers for lavish antebellum-themed galas - disgusting and morbid.

A fire engulfed the Nottoway plantation house last week, devastating much of the building along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Flames ripped…

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Money Isn’t God, and God Isn’t Money

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If your version of God is reduced to a walking, talking Wall Street banker, that says far more about you than the Almighty.

Well, here we be — the timeless blasphemy of equating paper and coins, cold cash to divinity. Money has become the planet’s favorite deity-by-default. It answers…

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Trump’s Devil’s Island: A Warden in Chief and the Cellblock Called America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Yep, it’s so quiet, so, so quiet, you can hear America tiptoeing away from democracy.

Donald Trump isn’t just King again. He’s the warden, the judge, the jury - and let’s be honest, the guy smuggling contraband into the prison yard.…

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Oh My God, a Black Pope? The World Would Lose Its Preconceived Mind!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Their predictable reaction would be a mix of horror, confusion, and rage, all wrapped up in a shiny, “we need to protect tradition” package. Translation, save White dominance.

After Pope Francis’ death, debates begin over his successor. And yes, oh my God, a Black Pope? This world would lose its little small, simple, preconceived…

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Only a Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children

By Desi Cortez Columnist

far too many white teachers — especially the MAGA-flavored, culture war crusaders hiding behind an apple and a flag pin — don’t respect Black children.

And yet here we are — generation after generation — dropping our babies off at the feet of an institution that, more often than not, doesn’t…

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The Emperor Is Naked, Sunburned, and Carrying a Flamethrower

By Desi Cortez Columnist

He’s back on the world stage, rumblin’, stumblin’, bumblin’ through summits and trade talks like a chainsaw juggler on a unicycle,

You can call it “International Deal Making” or, you can call it what it is — Global Gaslighting! As the world he’s helped drag to the…

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Stephen A. Smith Is Using His “Black Power” To Challenge MAGA Mad-Men—I Wish More Would

By Desi Cortez Columnist

ESPN’s resident thunderstorm has thrown down the gauntlet, calling out Donald Trump and his Vice Presidential hand puppet, J.D. Vance, for their latest pet project: scrubbing Black heroes from America’s history books.

Un….blanking-believable! So we’re just deleting history now? Just casually erasing the blood, sweat, and tears, from over the last 400 years of Black people, kind of…

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When the Obamas, Clintons, Bidens and Harrises Are Imprisoned, What Will the “Left” Do?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Will it be so eerily still, from coast to coast, Alaska to Nebraska, Fargo to Key Largo, that you can hear the rust flaking off America’s moral compass?

King Trump has decreed that all pardons issued by Joe Biden are “void” due to the alleged use of an autopen for signatures. He’s warned House…

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