May 23, 2025
Color of Law
Executive Editor
pleading to America for equal, just and fair treatment has been an elusive proposition for African-Americans.
May 19 marked the 100th birthday of Malcolm X, the man who articulated a message of racial justice that made him far ahead of his time.…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
If he was our “bright shining Black prince”, she was our Queen.
Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s “brightest hopes”, the “stormy, controversial ad bold young captain”,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
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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Commentary
Editorial Board
the military’s belief that service members who are transgender endanger “unit cohesion” only maintains a policy of segregation and fosters a climate of transphobia.
There will be parades all across the country this Memorial Day commemorating our U.S. service members who died while in the military. But not all service…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
There is nothing admirable about its sinister and rapacious history. There is nothing ambiguous or positive about its scurrilous message.
Recently, I was heading home from one of the local coffeehouses that I frequent on a regular basis. Along the way, at one specific intersection, there…
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