1064 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

White Nationalism and Antisemitism by the Ideological Right in America

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Racially coded messages - welfare queens, crime, forced busing - were widely disseminated by the Reagan campaign, which was also enormously successful in garnering the religious right’s fierce support.

Acerbic acrimonious verbal exchanges that have dominated sizable segments of the conservative right over the past several weeks demonstrate little, if any signs of abating. When…

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Cartoon

Climate Change

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Flexing Our Economic Muscles

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

We’re tired of being told patriotic duty looks like over-stuffing shopping carts. Consumerism is not freedom. Conscious spending is.

Every year, corporations expect us to line up, log on, and lose our minds for Black Friday. They expect us to stretch our budgets, drain our…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” Sounds Just a Tad Too Patient

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Lift is the morning prayer. Say It Loud is the afternoon march. Both sacred - one louder. We can carry a hymnal in one hand and a Bluetooth speaker in the other.

If these times we are living in had a soundtrack, I’d venture to say, it wouldn’t be a hymn. It wouldn’t be a slow gospel swell…

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Color of Law

Sidney Poitier: Hero on the Screen, Leader in the Movement

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

he was a true leader and hero for Black people who risked his life for racial justice.

Black celebrities have displayed their leadership and prowess in the arts, entertainment, music and sports, but also in terms of their commitment to the struggles in…

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Guest Commentary

Without Medicaid, How Many Rural Americans Will Die?

By Archbishop Marcia Dinkins, PhD Guest Commentator

The attacks on Medicaid aren’t just policy choices — they’re signing people’s death certificates before they ever see a physician.

This year, my adult daughter in rural Michigan was hospitalized multiple times with a raging infection of her pancreas, spleen, and gallbladder. Surgery saved my daughter’s…