Nov 19, 2020
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.
America may well be divided about Donald Trump, but the rest of the world isn’t. The soon-to-be-former president has gotten high marks in the Philippines and…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Biden will have a lot on his plate when he steps into the White House, and the needs of Black people must be on his agenda.
What should the Biden-Harris agenda for Black America be for the first 100 days? The victory of President-elect Joe Biden over incumbent President Donald Trump -…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Original national ancestry, from here or elsewhere, is not a ‘race.’ And the sooner we can get rid of this old order category in our thinking, the easier a more democratic class and national consciousness can emerge
Hypothesis No. 1. One cannot understand this election unless one begins with a recognition of voter suppression: Since 2008, the Republican strategy has increasingly focused on…
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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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Commentary
Editorial Board
The tension is between two concepts: race-neutral public policy and race-conscious public policy. Is it possible, though, to be race-neutral in the face of unconscious bias and anti-black attitudes?
President-elect Joe Biden has included working toward racial equity in his administration’s agenda. They outline how he will expand opportunities for Black folk and other people…
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Commentary
Columnist
He has to try to bring together two huge factions of the American electorate across a wide chasm that is made wider every day that Trump remains in the White House.
Some believe that the national nightmare is over, now that President Trump has been shown to be what he has been most of his life, a…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
I suggest that when people tell and show you who and what they are, what they are made of and what they believe, well, then believe them.
I can only ponder what Trump’s people would do if they could wave a magic wand, twinkle their noses and have the country turn into the…
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Commentary
Columnist
This perilous educational period demands someone who is equipped with a broad skill-set and professional experience, who can hit the ground running and salvage the educational futures of generations to come.
The most progressive House Democrats must realize that the Democratic incumbents they defeated in primaries - e.g., Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez v. Joseph Crowley (Inc.), Jamaal Bowman v.…
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