Jan 7, 2021
Color of Law
Executive Editor
the implications of these Democratic wins speak to the hope of multiracial democracy and progressive change, and whether Americans can have nice things.
The future of American democracy, should the country ever choose to practice that form of government, is in Georgia. In the much-anticipated Georgia Senate runoffs, the…
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Commentary
Columnist
None of this would have happened without the exemplary leadership of women who organized voters on the ground and turned them out in record numbers for a run-off race:
The results are in. Georgia’s voters of color have delivered the two Georgia U.S. Senate seats to the Democrats, giving them the Senate majority. Biden especially…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Our task is to intensify the organizing work over this last year and get to the source of the massive oppression and suffering.
If you’re reading the column, that means you survived COVID-19 and that you still have some wits about you. What a year! The forced isolation severed…
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Commentary
Columnist
His poisonous, narcissistic personality and mental health problems, along with his con-man modus operandi, were something that had not been seen in American politics before.
The fabric of the U.S. has been irreparably damaged and much of it has been destroyed by the antics of a very sick individual that we…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Americans cannot be blamed for the misinformation we have absorbed from our culture, but we are responsible when we repeat that misinformation and unexamined racism after we have learned otherwise.
The year 2020 has been a stressful one. With George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis, Minn., police officer as an inflection point about…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Darkness ruled day Dark thoughts abound It was the cumulative Conjuncture of “Himism” Compounded by a Coronavirus,
2020 was a horror poem Un poema en desarollo En la oscuridad de la mente Darkness ruled day Dark thoughts abound It was the cumulative Conjuncture…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
By now, though, enough white people have had the vaccination that by some wicked irony, they are my guinea pigs. Get the vaccination if you can, medical racism notwithstanding.
People who don’t know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in the last month than they have in their whole lives.…
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