June 08, 2017
Cover Story
Editorial Board
We've been learning what we have to lose in these nearly five months of 45's 'leadership'. As of this writing, two days after a noose was hung in the Smithsonian Museum for African American History and Culture, he has not uttered a syllable of condemnation.
When he was running for President, 45 asked African Americans what we had to lose by electing him. Embracing the most dystopian view of the African…
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Commentary
Columnist
Acceptance and living as a repulsive person is a sickness. That sickness in the form of speech many times evolves into a repulsive action. Racial hatred combined with the repulsive speech usually amounts to racial violence that can only be deemed a hate crime.
If you are among the residents of the United States of America with a pulse, then you cannot feign ignorance regarding the alarming number of hate-inspired…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black people have been known to internalize the word and use it as a form of self-abuse and self-hatred, while also seizing it and flipping it, neutralizing it, and even using it as a term of endearment, as the subjugated sometimes do.
Should we talk about those who use the word n*gger out of turn, or those who treat black folks like n*ggers from the Oval Office? Let’s…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
the Black vote is now the balance of power in the Democratic Party.
This essay is the introduction to a larger political analysis that seeks to explain how the modern Republican Party has utilized political racism over the past…
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Commentary
Columnist
In recent years, the FAA has even tried to convince veteran expert controllers to stay on past their retirement dates, but who wouldn’t want to leave a place with such a burden of responsibility for thousands of lives and very little acknowledgment of their vital work or its importance?
Among the many catastrophes that Donald Trump has foisted on the battered people of the United States, he announced on Monday that he intends to privatize…
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Commentary
Columnist
In addition to the funding declines, public school teachers are being battered by the rapidly increasing number of charter and voucher schools which largely reject teacher unions, further eradicating teaching positions in public schools as individual schools’ budgets are reduced to pay for them.
The reduction of the nation’s public education teaching force is a silent tsunami that is insidious to K-12 education. Many of the warning signs are being…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
While it should come as no surprise that Trump's prescription to 'Make America Great Again' precludes Mexicans, Muslims, people of color, immigrants, women, the physical challenged, to name a few, he's waging a war against us, too.
Since Trump took office people -across the country as well as the world -have taken to the streets in protest. Social justice and pro-democracy organizations are…
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Commentary
Columnist
It is a very important, continuing effort, for us, as African people in America to educate and reeducate ourselves about our history and its relationship to the important ideas that shape how we see the world. We must continue this effort beyond African American History Month and carry it into the rest of the year.
It is a very important for African people in America to educate and reeducate ourselves about our history and its relationship to the important ideas that…
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