July 24, 2025
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black Lives Matter started with a few sisters and a social media hashtag, and the rest is history.
With inflation, student loans, paying the bills, climate change, police violence and so many other problems we face, there is a tendency to feel helpless and…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
He didn’t light racism’s bonfire; he revved a leaf-blower, doused everything in jet fuel, and cackled like a frat bro torching the couch after homecoming.
Nothing announces “post-racial utopia” quite like a trust-fund TV landlord - bronzed to Slim-Jim brilliance - digging through Jim Crow’s attic for literacy tests, poll-tax receipts,…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
It was a form of patriotism that was deeply suffused with jingoism and nationalism as well as tinged with racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and misogyny.
Given the political, social, and cultural drama that has perennially saturated the nation for the better part of a decade, it should hardly come as a…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
With the deliberate aims to erase Black History, the unending attacks in Critical Race Theory, and the dismantling of all things associated with DEI, these museums preserve our rich stories.
If you thought there were no black people on Nantucket Island back in the day, other than Frederick Douglass delivering his anti-slavery speeches, you’ll quickly be…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Just as Sinclair Lewis predicted it’s wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
BC Guest Commentator Dr. Michael L. "Mikey" Weinstein, PhD is founder and president of the seven-time Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). Mikey was…
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