May 16, 2025
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Our current President does not value history. He makes it up as he goes along,
Critical thinking has taken a leave absence. Reality is unreal. History is inverted, so the villains become the victims, and the victims the villains. Shakespeare captured…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
It had all the makings of a race riot, a lynching.
Never could one imagine the police doing this in a white neighborhood. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police engaged in a race riot when they…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
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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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Apprehension about engaging in racially inflected behavior has all but evaporated for many individuals who inhabit this political and cultural sphere.
Earlier this month, Shiloh Hendrix, a White woman from Rochester, Minnesota, was caught on camera in a local park playground using the N-word toward a five-year-old…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Black hairstyles are not criticized when they are appropriated by white culture.
"Jaja's African Hair Braiding" has come to Boston. It is a tragicomedy and once again, Jocelyn Bioh brings another thorny issue to the stage at a…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism.
President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s…
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