Nov 12, 2020
Commentary
Editorial Board
If someone is going to treat this as a serious piece of work, devoting themselves as the publishers of BlackCommentator.com do every week, they simply cannot do that on a shoe-string or as volunteers.
Many people who know me know that at some point, in discussing the financial future of movement organizations and institutions I ask: “How do we expect…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black voters, particularly young Black voters, turned Georgia blue. Now it is time to flip the Senate, not for Democrats or Joe Biden, but for ourselves.
Election Day has passed, but the election isn’t over, at least not in Georgia. There are two Senate runoff elections taking place Jan. 5 in the…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Civic engagement is not a seasonal thing, it’s an all the time thing. We get the government that we choose to participate in.
It took five days for the 2020 election to be called for former Vice President Joe Biden. Five days with me peeled to the television and…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Black women have paved the way for women and other underrepresented demographic groups in U.S. politics,
The struggle to get president-elect Joe Biden to the finish line first with 270 Electoral College votes was unquestionably an epic battle. However, Joe’s battle wasn’t…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
There’s a reason to discredit activists for justice, to disseminate ignorance, to ignore the presence of armed militia groups. It is to deny white violence and at the same time, justify white violence.
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manor of our revolution. But more usually we must do…
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Commentary
Columnist
The four years that the American people have suffered under the regime of Donald Trump is just an inkling of what could come under the full flowering of plutocracy.
There are many examples of the corporate state crushing an individual or a movement and the American people can see it happening just about any day,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Trump isn’t going to prison or the poor house without kickin’ n’ screamin’... he’s more than willing to burn this divided house down, to stay in the White House and out of the “Big House.”
Lord Trump, as I pen this, is purging the Department of Defense and the FBI of men and women with any loyalty to anyone or anything…
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Commentary
Columnist
like Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid in South Africa, the Republican leadership is fearful of the changing demographics and committed to keeping America’s minority groups, who will make up a collective American majority by 2040, in their place
The Democrats have won the presidency but have not yet won the political power they need to carry out a center-left agenda. Although departing President Trump…
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