March 15, 2018
Cover Story
Editorial Board
The future must always be greater than the present, or there has been no progress. And, in the words of Frederick Douglas, “progress concedes nothing without a demand”.
All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is,…
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The African World
Editorial Board
This student movement–and it is a movement–needs to be supported. Yes, there were certainly other cases of gun violence that could have…should have started such a movement. But that is not the way that history and social movements work. Timing as well as contributing factors make for social explosions. One can rarely project as to when it will happen, though we can largely guess that an explosion will happen.
The mass walkouts by students in protest against gun violence has been tremendously inspirational. Just listening to clips from the speeches made me want to raise…
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Commentary
Columnist
The strike, which closed the schools across the state, was not the kind of strike that would have been expected to be organized by an industrial union in the heyday of unions decades ago. This one was more like an explosion of anger by teachers who have been abused for most of their working lives and weren’t going to take it anymore.
West Virginia’s teachers have shown the rest of the workers in the U.S. that solidarity can provide dignity and fairness, as it improves the lives of…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
why, even after achieving major civil rights victories, do progressives continue to find that injustices simply reconstitute themselves - returning not long after the “victory” is achieved.
While I was visiting with a group of fellow progressive activists, a man shared a story from his youth about his earliest memory of injustice. He…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Gun ownership in America has become a political identity, and the NRA has emerged as a part of the Republican Party coalition. This political identity is intertwined with race and the criminalization of Black people, creating a disaster for the African-American community.
The latest school mass shooting in Florida, and the unfolding debate over gun control and gun violence is a reminder of the complicated, contradictory history of…
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Commentary
The ripping up of the public sector is taking hold even as Trump distracts us with his attempts to cover up any discovery of his alleged collusion with Russia in order to win the 2016 Presidential election. As we are preoccupied with his sexual peccadillos, he and his administration are collaborating with the corporate Cartel of education reformers and its most prominent advocate, Eli Broad,
Trump fired Rex Tillerson, his Secretary of State, to take the focus off the investigation of his campaign’s collusion with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The ripping up…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
I believe their personal destiny and financial fate is tied-to White men, and out of pure self-interest they will let us all suffer, to save themselves and their privilege.
Only Trump’s treasonous Uncle Tom's can save Black America . . .. Let’s not jack around, for we’ve not the time. Look, I’m just going to…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, these powerful women writers have created a ripple effect, creating a regenerative role as they have inspired the future generations of Black women to pen their own powerful narratives. And decade after decade, emanating from Black women’s personal or collectively-shared experiences, there came a strong, resilient movement.
“It was November 1988,” Betty Winston Baye, recollected. “I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, being invited to be in the company of 27 other…
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