Issue: 898
February 10, 2022
Color of Law
Black Artists Should Join India.Arie and Leave Spotify
Executive Editor
Know your value and do not subsidize your own oppression.
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for Black America and the streaming entertainment industry. It is time for all Black artists to join India.Arie and send a…
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Art
Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters
Artists
Artists Felix St. Fort and Gabe Tiberino joined forces in a mural honoring the Cecil B. Moore Freedom Fighters. St. Fort and Tiberino used a mixture of portraits and graphic elements, such as Adinkra symbols, to create a unique mural. Adinkra symbols represent different concepts or ideas and originate from West Africa, specifically a region…
Artists Felix St. Fort and Gabe Tiberino joined forces in a mural honoring the Cecil B. Moore Freedom Fighters. St. Fort and Tiberino used a mixture…
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View from the Battlefield
HBCUs Under Threats of Violence
Editorial Board
It may be driven by a rabid, white extremist movement but it also enjoys the complacency of a silent majority of all racial and ethnic groupings.
Last year, African American actress Taraji P. Henson feared that the COVID-19’s impact on the Black community would be “trauma on top of trauma.” Henson was…
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Commentary
The Congressional Black Caucus Is the Conscience of Congress
Editorial Board
The Congressional Black Caucus members are agents of progress. Criticize them, if you will, but embrace them. They are the conscience of Congress. They are our champions.
All too often, the Congressional Black Caucus gets a bad rap. What do they do, many ask? What have they recently accomplished? Are they leaning on…
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Commentary
Black History Month – From Negro History Week to Pan-African Historical Context
Guest Commentator
While schools highlight leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas and several others, rarely is the celebration used to thoroughly reflect on the ethics, political vision, and philosophical insights of these leaders.
The need to once and for all embrace a reasonable and comprehensive interpretation of African history that inspires and uplifts Black people is evident when examining…
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Commentary
Whoopi Goldberg’s Confusion about the Holocaust Is America’s, Too
Editorial Board
how we view race today in America is very different than how it was viewed in Europe during the Holocaust.
Conversations about race in America are our third rail. It trips us all up. Whoopi Goldberg proved that last week on the television talk show “The…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
In the Name of Democracy
Columnist
if Black Americans don’t make a united stand in the face of a racist, sexist, elitist, and overtly xenophobic White Nationalist movement, we’re going to find ourselves, our children, and unquestionably our children’s children facing a harder, crueler, meaner white-male-governed world.
If not for America’s half-hearted attempt at “democracy,” where would Black Americans be? Honestly, if not for Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, A.…
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