October 23, 2025
Cover Story
Editorial Board
When “diversity” and “ethnic” become code for “non-white,” they stop being tools for inclusion and start serving the very hierarchies they claim to challenge.
Language is not neutral. Every word carries the fingerprints of power — who gets to define it, who gets to use it, and who gets erased…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The danger isn’t just what they say when they think no one else is watching. It is what they do and say when they think everyone around them quietly concurs.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Avid and astute consumers of national politics who stay abreast of current events were possibly aware…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
At a time when Black America faced a reign of terror and racial violence from the white mob, this dynamic Black woman used journalism as a weapon to wage a one-woman campaign against lynching.
We must lift up the legacies of Black women who preceded us, and praise trailblazers such as Ida B. Wells-Barnett. A journalist, civil rights activist, NAACP…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The truest patriots are those willing to critique their country because they believe it can live up to its promise. Black people have always done that work.
We don’t hate America. We built America. Brick by brick, cotton bale by cotton bale, invention by invention, we shaped this nation while it denied our…
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