July 31, 2025
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Decades before Black Lives Matter, Black women were showing up, showing out, and showing us how to do it.
In recent years, there was the iconic photo of Ieshia Evans, a Black woman and a nurse from Pennsylvania who stood graceful and silent against a…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A month or so ago, the State Department destroyed $10 million worth of birth control supplies purchased by USAID for women in developing countries. Fraud, waste and abuse, anyone?
The dystopian man who lives in the House that Enslaved People Built campaigned that he would reduce inflation (not), eliminate “fraud waste and abuse” and address…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
This is not the first regime in history to consolidate state power, to silence the media, to dismantle internal checks on abuse of power, to legitimize the criminalization of sectors of society, to expand the police state and target dissidents.
Over the course of this MAGA regime, there have been memes posted on social media with the basic goal of disconnecting Black folks from the movement…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
The Trump administration has turned ICE into a federally funded street gang with badges, hunting for melanin like it’s contraband.
Trump and his squad of swaggering sycophants aren’t just above the law - they’ve gentrified lawlessness, franchised it, slapped their names on the side, and sold…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology.
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a popular, daily, drive-time program on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles and co-…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Real, authentic storytelling doesn’t just display Black faces on screen - it humanizes us, challenges narratives, and uplifts our culture. People of color deserve a more dignified portrayal.
Perhaps the multimedia producer Tyler Perry was a brutal White slave master in his past life. The reason for my tawdry assertion is that, for the…
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