June 19, 2025
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The trump administration’s big lie is that only the most vicious and violent of those in the country without proper documentation would be rounded up.
Recent activities by the Trump administration singularly and collectively sent powerful messages to the world. The dueling fronts were in full motion. The Democracy Defenders and…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that…
Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
racial justice activism was dangerous, risky, life-threatening work when you were trying to change society and crazy angry white men were rolling up on you with guns and Lord knows what else. And very often, the armed vigilantes and the police were one and the same.
But Black people have been down this road before. Decades earlier, even before the Black Panthers, there was an important chapter in the Civil Rights Movement…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
most of these people are not the “dangerous criminals” that our very dangerous president rails about.
Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town where all…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
The architects of this new era of terror are mainstream, buttoned-up, Bible-waving, regulation-cutting, golf-club Republicans.
Why doesn’t Trump just cut the crap, rip off the red hat, and call it what they really call it behind closed MAGA doors? Operation Wetback…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
if Christian nationalism were successful in becoming the norm, it would abolish our current constitution and fragment our democracy.
Some of you are probably aware that Christian music legend Michael Tait, whose hit song “God’s Not Dead (Like a Lion)” became a symbolic tune for…
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