February 27, 2025
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Our history is a canon for survival and an archive for future generations to pass along because our lived experiences are sacred texts.
Frederick Douglass is dead. In 2017, President Donald J. Trump didn’t appear to know this fact. However, in 2025, he may still not know. In kicking…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X The Official Website of Malcolm X Malcolm X The Official Website of Malcolm X Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
No amount of Super Bowl rings should make a Black-dominated team bow at the feet of a man who has spent years making life harder for Black Americans.
Ah yes, the grand tradition of Super Bowl champions trotting up to the White House, flashing smiles, and pretending it’s all about sportsmanship, not politics. But…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
This is a vivid example of how a dictator takes a ludicrous accusation and twists it into a dangerous policy.
The trump administration plans to kick out a half million Haitians in Black August. The decision follows an earlier one by the oligarchy to send about…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Using their states as laboratories for neo-Jim Crow policies, White reactionaries are cementing power through gerrymandering and voter suppression.
On April 6, 2023, the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Black freshman lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for exercising their First Amendment rights, protesting…
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