March 02, 2017
Color of Law
Executive Editor
under the new President, white nationalists and their enablers such as ex-Breitbart chief Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller are crafting policies out of the West Wing and writing speeches laced with Islamophobia and evoking the "America First"
The recent desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia and St. Louis, nearly 100 bomb threats made against Jewish day schools and community centers across the nation…
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Commentary
Columnist
His recent comment that the American press is not his enemy, but is the “enemy of the American people” is one of his more dangerous pronouncements, for he is running counter to many presidents who came before him, nearly all of whom recognized the importance of a free press to a free people and a free country.
Keep in mind in the coming months that Donald Trump has absolute contempt for the U.S. Constitution and many of the laws that it has produced…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The Trump election reminds us of the limitations of politics, and the need to focus on the economic aspects of our lives. Political involvement is necessary, but not sufficient for Black progress. Every single economic indicator shows African American people lagging.
The unfortunate election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States speaks volumes about the limits of African American involvement in the political…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Over the past decade or so, I have watched us running to protests from one city to the next. We may get a cop fired here or there or temporarily stop a pipeline. Where’s our vision for state repression? We don’t have a national strategy on one of the most persistent and rampant issues in the U.S.
This is the second article of a 7-part series that will focus on the issues in our radical movements that I think need our immediate and…
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Commentary
Columnist
There is an increasing racial and cultural disconnect between those who fund public education and those who consume it. An emerging view is that publicly-funded corporate-led school choice will meet the needs of non-minority students, allowing for profits to be made, while a selective population of students of color will be added to make it look like America.
Unions and other public education supporters need to take stock of how they will react to President Trump’s and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s all-out school choice…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
The "Right" was due a "you lie" but the "glee club" alumni masquerading as civil servants didn’t have the guts, brains or balls to give these SOB’s a piece of their own medicine. It’s like momma's boys and little ladies went out in the back yard to get their ass kicked by the guys on the football team and in the rifle club.
As Emperor Trump addresses the world . . . It was so quiet in the great room . . . you could hear a rat piss…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The work at True Colors builds confidence, and acceptance of self and others. The power derived from sharing their stories and publicly holding them up as models of activism empowers the troupe and informs communities struggling with LGBTQ-acceptance.
The next night following “Moonlight’s” win for Best Picture at the Oscars, a first for a black LGBTQ film, True Colors Out Youth Theater - the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
They cannot destroy matter, They cannot destroy energy, They cannot destroy truth, They cannot destroy love, And Malcolm is all of the above!
Brooklyn, New York February 21, 2005 Six o’clock A.M. Last night they tried to kill Malcolm But they failed They firebombed his home Hoping that he…
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