July 22, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
So this is my plea to woke, progressive Black folk. Please run for school board. There are tens of thousands of Black women who have retired from education. Would you please run for the school board?
Critical race theory (CRT) asserts that racism is woven into the very fabric of our nation’s institutions. This is not new information for those who have…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
UCW intends to bring a social justice unionism model able to push for higher education that is consistent with the expansion of democracy, and opens a discussion on what it means to unionize the South, and how public sector unions can fight against white supremacy.
UCW intends to bring a social justice unionism model able to push for higher education that is consistent with the expansion of democracy, and opens a…
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Commentary
Columnist
Humanity is a very destructive species and it’s done that work well.
All of the tortured debate in the world’s political life and all of the desperate vying for attention on social media will be as nothing, compared…
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Commentary
Columnist
While pressing issues continue to burden and assail Democratic base voters, especially its rising New American Majority of ethnic minorities, Democrats are doing little to address them.
Perhaps unintentionally, the Democratic Party is failing its base constituents after they handed it thrilling victories in the 2020 elections to gain control of the Oval…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The least of the Olympics’ concerns should be that of swim caps for Black hair. But the International Swimming Federation of the IOC said the design of the swim caps does not fit “the natural form of the head,” a statement eerily reminiscent of the eugenics movement’s propaganda to substantiate Black anatomical and intellectual inferiority.
The Olympics begin Friday in Japan. There is a lot on the International Olympic Committee’s docket to be concern about in this pandemic: 83 percent of…
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