September 10, 2026
Commentary
Loyalty is something Trump expects to receive, not reciprocate. We can now add Milo Yiannopoulos to the list of the disregarded allies who learned this humiliating lesson.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur who actively promoted fringe conspiracies and racial controversies during his tenure in America, was officially deported to Great Britain on August…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
He provides the reader with captivating aerial perspectives and close-up encounters which frame the complex relationships that both fueled and obstructed the infamous slave trade.
How I became the 443rd captive on the Zorg When I came across the title The Zorg several months ago, the ship’s name did not ring…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Racism, disappearing jobs, mass incarceration, bad public policy, and economic abandonment have done tremendous damage - but personal irresponsibility has collected a paycheck from the same wrecking company.
Considering the parlous, incendiary time we are living in, Black America should not belong exclusively to the loudest voices standing inside it. "Whenever you find yourself…
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Commentary
Columnist
The Freedom 250 Grand Prix did not create our $40 trillion debt, but it illustrates the hypocrisy of people who preach austerity while spending public money on spectacle.
The national debt has passed $40 trillion - that is $40,000,000,000,000, a number with more zeroes than most of us can comfortably count. The Congressional Budget…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
In African spirituality, and many indigenous cultures, the ancestors are among us and connected to us, part of the living and spiritual realms.
We live in a time, not unlike the entire history of this country, where the lives of Black people are undervalued, discounted, disregarded and ended through…
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