March 20, 2025
Commentary
Guest Commentator
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get worse? Study Germany and Italy in the nineteen thirties.
There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
After serving the empire and serving their purpose for Uncle Sam, these Black vets are cast aside.
When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
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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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the Trump administration is disingenuously exploiting anti-Semitism in an effort to further enact a right-wing agenda that is largely characterized by anti-Semitism.
Anyone who has a beating heart and is astute enough should be conscious of the fact that debates over free speech, cultural appropriation, intolerance, and numerous…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
More than a century later women can vote, hold office and have equal rights in theory, but that has not changed the reality that men claim almost total political power.
International Women’s Day had its origins in great social unrest, turbulence and critical debate among women in Western countries regarding their oppressive working conditions in factories…
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