Independent since 2002 Issue No. 1102 Week of November 7, 2026 Get the free email dispatch →

Issue: 714

October 05, 2017

Cover Story

Blacks are Under Attack in Academia – In-Depth BlackCommentator.com Report

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Black academics face a 'a uniquely racialized form of anti-black public harassment' that is quite different from that of their non-black counterparts, and is intended to terrorize black progress.

October 05, 2017 - Issue 714 "Black academics face a 'a uniquely racialized form of anti-black public harassment' that is quite different from that of their…

Continue reading 1 min

Tackling Racism

Cartoon

Tackling Racism

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

Continue reading 1 min

Commentary

This Flag is Drenched in Blood

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

How could the men who have been hauled out of their cars, pushed down to their knees, forced to justify the reasons they are driving high-end cars be on the same page with the men who “own” them, who may or may not support them, may or may not kneel with them, have fealty with their masters?

I am not sure why the “National Anthem” and the so-called American flag are part of our nation’s sports pageantry. Before 2009, while the National Anthem…

Continue reading 4 min

Commentary

LGBTQ History Month’s Emerging Canon

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

LGBTQ History Month is young, too. It’s a public month-long celebration and acknowledgment of our contribution to American History. Just twenty-three years old it was first celebrated in 1994, as an outgrowth from National Coming out Day (October 11) founded in 1988.

Winston Churchill once said that “History is written by the winners.” When the Stonewall Riots occurred in 1969 the history of more than a century-long oppressed…

Continue reading 6 min

Commentary

Public Worker Unions on the Block

By John Funiciello Columnist

As union power dwindled, so did America’s middle class, because, when unions were at full strength and about 35 percent of workers were in unions, the gains made in pay, benefits, and pensions were passed along to the other 65 percent of workers who were not in unions.

The oligarchs of America are about to set fire to the straw man that they have created to show that unions are somehow separate from the…

Continue reading 8 min

Commentary

The Cartel’s Dismantling of Public Education and ‘Badass Teachers’

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Eli Broad, the Cartel of corporate education reformers’ minister of education has been engaged in a long term dismantling of public education with a systematic substitution of traditional and corporate charter schools in small, medium, and large urban school districts from coast to coast.

Political Updates: Eli Broad’s new school board majority is in the Los Angeles Unified School District is secretly devising a plan to force and/or buy out…

Continue reading 7 min

Jones Act

Cartoon

Jones Act

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

Continue reading 1 min

$ $ Contribute $ $