May 7, 2026
Cover Story
Guest Commentator
To pretend otherwise is engaging in willful ignorance and denial.
Upon hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s six conservative justices had callously dismantled to the last vestiges the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), I, like…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
He sits on the highest court in the land like a thundercloud over Black America's hard-won progress, using the robe not as a symbol of justice, but as camouflage for betrayal with a law degree.
Clarence Thomas has played the role of judicial undertaker for modern voting rights, standing at the edge of hard-won Black political power with a shovel in…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A project delayed, a program underfunded, a priority shifted. The fight over maps is, at its core, a fight over whether under-investment will persist.
Elections aren’t supposed to stop midstream, but in Louisiana, they did. After the Supreme Court stepped into the state’s redistricting fight, Governor Jeff Landry halted congressional…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Facing threats to their land from climate change, hurricanes and rising sea levels, Black folks in the Sea Islands and Lowcountry are hoodwinked and bamboozled by gentrification and corporate interlopers.
Systemic racism takes many forms, not the least of which is land theft. Simply put, Black people have lost a staggering amount of property over the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The citizens of Brazil, Poland, and South Korea defeated the dragons threatening their democracies. What can Americans learn from their examples?
The best way of preventing authoritarian leaders from overthrowing democracies is to make sure that they never get into power in the first place. That’s what…
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