June 3, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Today the reality for Black Tulsans is grim, and their lives are besieged with nonstop policing, poverty and prison.
The struggle for Black Tulsan survivors and their descendants to receive reparations has been a century-old controversy, one that is a pox on this country’s unwillingness…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
We are reliving the past with a vengeance because America refuses to grapple with its past. America placated the Confederates, and they returned as the Klan and segregationists, as lynch mobs that massacred Black people and destroyed their communities in Greenwood, Rosewood and so many other places.
A full century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, justice remains elusive for the victims of Greenwood and all Black victims of racial violence and systemic racism.…
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Commentary
Columnist
After Trump prevailed, he led the Republican Party on a sojourn to the dark side of politics as he openly courted and championed the most extreme elements of White supremacy.
In the wake of the 100-year-old anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race pogrom, it is apparent that Whites—this time Republicans--are fixated on removing Democrats and citizens…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
I believe, if Trump is handcuffed and perk-walked out of Mara-Logo… millions upon millions of “his” White folks would lose their tobacco-chewing minds.
The obvious question arising from this week of remembering the Tulsa Massacre, recalling Rosewood and the bloody Red summer of 1919 is “are White folks capable,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Funds from the American Rescue Plan are coming to a city or county near you. We need to have something to show for it after this $2 trillion is spent.
There’s something about tax dollars that many working people feel disconnected from. It’s like once it leaves their hands, they feel like they lose total ownership.…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Early in the Biden administration, the White House announced that it was undertaking a review of Cuba policy. But to the surprise and disappointment of many Cuba watchers, and despite the fact that most of Trump’s policy changes could be reversed with a single executive order, Biden has not moved an inch.
Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for "Syringes to Cuba" as Carlos Lazo promotes the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Pipelines leak. That fact is as inevitable as greenhouse gas emissions fueling climate change. The United States has the largest number of pipelines, both existing and planned, than any other nation on the planet.
A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade sparking fierce resistance from Indigenous communities…
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