Issue: 779
March 07, 2019
View from the Battlefield
The Chameleon of Patriarchy – International Women’s Day
Editorial Board
Women of color, and especially Black women, are leaning in, stepping up and growing into various leadership roles in our racial justice movement and beyond. I bear witness to their brilliance and to their resistance. I’ve seen their writings, their organizing, their passion to fight the stereotypes, practices, laws and policies that restrict or stop their professional and political growth.
I’ve been thinking a lot about patriarchal lately—how, when and where it raises its ugly head. Patriarchy is like a liquid that changes shape, can be…
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Commentary
The Congressional Black Caucus: Not Always in Headlines, But Never on the Sidelines
Editorial Board
In celebrating the Congressional Black Caucus, I'm not touting their perfection, because the collective caucus is flawed as any other organization. My biggest bone to pick with Caucus members is all of them won't sign or align themselves with HR 40, the reparations legislation that Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced thirty years ago.
What does the Congressional Black Caucus do? It takes Majority Whip James Clyburn to make it understandable. "It's not only what we make happen, but what…
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Commentary
When Warriors Danced – Lorraine and James
Editorial Board
The artist needs the support of the community, but society conspires against relationships that aren’t acknowledging the centrality of Wall Street and white supremacy, kinship, community. The artist is “removed,” one way or the other, like in any war. He or she “falls silent and the people have lost another hope.”
When Warriors Danced: Lorraine and James What about equality? Wanting to be equal within the white value structure? JB: “‘Why in the world...What makes you think…
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Commentary
Former Maine Governor Lepage Follows His Leader, Trump, in Attitude On Race – Solidarity America
Columnist
Early this month, as the Maine legislature was considering electing U.S. presidents by popular vote, rather than through the Electoral College, he called the move “insane,” according to the New York Daily News, and said that a popular vote system would allow minorities to elect presidents, even though whites make up about 61 percent of the U.S. population.
Paul LePage, two-term governor of Maine, is at it again and he has pulled no punches in determining that his support of the federal Electoral College…
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Cartoon
Don’t Let Donald Trump’s Comical Cartoon-like Looks Deceive You
Columnist
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Commentary
Sen. Cory Booker, Teachers, School Choice and 2020
Columnist
It is difficult to see how Booker overcomes Harris in the black community when so many of black professional women are teachers and public school administrators and have been savaged by his school choice policies. And their white counterparts are also being turned off by his past record of assaults on public education.
Sen. Cory Booker is in a bit of a quandary as he pursues the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Although heralded as an early favorite and a…
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Guest Commentary
Justice Thomas, Please Stop Comparing Yourself to Being Lynched
Guest Commentator
To claim that you are the victim of lynching whether high tech or otherwise is the height of foul behavior and the ultimate insult to those whose ancestors (perhaps some of your own) who were casualties of one of many intensely horrific forms of sadistic violence perpetrated on untold numbers of Black Americans (and a few non-Black people) in American history.
Those of us who are old enough remember the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas saga that took place in the fall of 1991. The hearings were a dramatic…
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