July 30, 2026
Cover Story
Executive Editor
It is important for Black children and young people to see their future selves reflected at the front of the classroom - Black teachers as living examples of their future potential.
Kathleen McElroy a Black woman, a preeminent professor and journalist - was hired to revive the journalism program at Texas A&M University. Then came the backlash…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Conservatives such as Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro, and Ron DeSantis have been bitter critics of the brothers and have chastised their fellow conservatives who have embraced the duo. By contrast, others on the conservative right have adopted a “hear no evil, fear no evil, see no evil” non-partisan stance.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the far-right social media influencers and self-described misogynists who command a following of young, angry men on the internet, were arrested in…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Motown delivered Black performers into White America’s living room with such elegance that racism had to tap its foot before remembering it was supposed to object.
Tuskegee University - arguably the flagship of historically Black higher education, founded in 1881 because White America considered an educated Black population an absolute threat to…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
In the twisted logic of this political moment, counting racial inequality is treated as a form of racial discrimination, while actual discrimination is rendered invisible.
The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts. On July 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposed abolishing the EEO-1…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
From ICE raids and protest prosecutions to attacks on universities, journalists, and historical memory, authoritarianism is being embedded in American life.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently – Rosa Luxemburg Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable…
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