December 16, 2021
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
What we see is an unrecognizable movement around us. How did we get here? Who have we become? How do we get on track?
I have found this year to be one of extreme distress for the Black Liberation Movement. There were many warning bells going off that apparently were…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Whether people see Rittenhouse as a hero or a domestic terrorist will hinge on societal embrace of white supremacy, indifference toward racial injustice and dehumanization of racial minority groups and their allies.
Last month, a nearly all-White jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of murdering two White men - Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber - at a Black…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The more cities and states that have reparations conversations, the more awareness those at the top will have that this is an issue that is not going away.
The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced HR 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get cosponsors…
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Commentary
Columnist
The party of working people became just another party of the rich and Manchin is just another soldier among the troops that make up that party.
The U.S. likes to think of itself (if a nation can even do that) as fair and just (if we leave out its treatment of minority…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
How will Smollett's hoax affect public perception of hate crimes, significantly impacting people of color in the LGBTQ+ communities?
Former "Empire" actor, Jussie Smollett, was found guilty on five of the six counts of felony disorderly conduct for concocting an elaborate racist and homophobic assault…
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Commentary
Columnist
we are witnessing growing economic, political, and gender apartheid between America’s White and ethnic minority groups in all spheres of our national life.
Reconstruction déjà vu is upon us. Republicans at every level of government are zealously rolling back the civil and constitutional rights of ethnic minorities and other…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The coalition that brought Castro to power includes a nascent feminist movement as well as a new queer and transgender movement working alongside traditional activist groups like unions, as well as Black and Indigenous communities.
After more than a decade of violent repression and undemocratic rule that emerged after the 2009 ouster of Manuel Zelaya, a new leader takes the reins…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
I wholeheartedly believe we are living in what will be the prelude to America’s second civil war.
After White men come for Black women, it’ll be Black folk’s hearts, souls, and freedom. Why? Because they want to! Controlling and dominating via cruel, nasty,…
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