May 6, 2021
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Ironically dubbed “anti-riot” laws, these bills are anti-protest, anti-free speech, anti-democratic and, unfortunately, very American.
The murder of George Floyd gave rise to the largest social justice movement in U.S. history, with 15 to 26 million Americans participating in protests. It…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The same ships brought enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese to this country for the purpose of economic exploitation. The Southern economy was built upon the forced, free labor of Black people while the Chinese were paid pennies to build the transcontinental railroad under brutal working conditions.
For a fleeting moment, it seemed like the conditions of Asian-Americans would get some overdue and deserved attention—even if prompted by a national tragedy. On March…
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Commentary
Columnist
Unexpectedly and contrary to robust predictions, the Democrats lost 13 House seats in the 2020 election. Republicans need to flip five seats to regain control of the House in the 2022 midterms, while only needing a net gain of one seat to return the Senate, which is tied 50 to 50, to a Republican majority.
The turnout of the emerging The New American Majority of voters of color will determine whether Democrats continue to control three branches of the federal government—House,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
in the time of a pandemic, it makes no sense to approve a military budget that is 90 times the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A month before the vote on the federal budget, progressives in Congress declared, “We’ve studied President Biden’s proposed $753 billion military budget, an increase of $13…
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Commentary
Columnist
From time to time, small groups inside and outside of Israel had warned that the oppression of Palestinians was not just a temporary condition, but beginning to be set in stone.
For years, it had been said that Israel was slipping into being an apartheid state, similar to South Africa before the success of the majority-black Africans…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
In my heart, I cannot find it in me to give up. If we want to win, we cannot meet hate with more hate. Nonviolence is not an ideology, as much as it is a way of life that can be both confrontational and invitational.
While most of America breathed a collective sigh of relief at the historic April 20 verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Portland Oregon, saw its most…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
These men ought not be accepted into any traditionally Black environment, from church to family dinners they should be unwelcome and unwanted, they should be "Whitelisted" - branded, banned, eternally barred from participating with Afro-Americans.
“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual…
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