April 28, 2022
Cover Story
Editorial Board
If you can’t work, you can’t repay your student loans, but if you can’t repay your student loans, you can’t work. While this situation is challenging for everyone, it is much worse for Black women.
Graduations are an exciting time for most families. They will throng to auditoriums, gymnasiums, churches, or outdoor settings bearing flowers, balloons, and other goodies. They’ll likely…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Democracy is eroding, as people are losing faith in an open society and a country that is not working for them — and a government that is not meeting their needs or serving their interests.
The signs are all around us. Something is not right in America. The country is a traumatic place for millions, triggering stress among wide swaths of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Studies have shown that when there are ample resources for community services such as mental health care, crime goes down.
The New York City subway shooting in Brooklyn on April 12 miraculously resulted in no deaths, although about 30 people suffered injuries, including 10 from gunshot…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
So far the California task force has begun the work of documenting the scope of harm. In hundreds of pages of reports, members have shown how the brutal legacy of racism became enshrined in laws, court decisions and government policies in California.
Over the past 10 months, a panel of experts has undertaken a historic and long-overdue task in the nation’s most populous state — examining, documenting and…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The U.S. military “takes people off the battlefield” rather than killing them, blowing them up, and so on.
The language of war fascinates me. I was reading President Obama’s response to Donald Trump on whether Obama “gets it” when it comes to the threat…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Sadly, they know their historically assigned place on the local/national/global stage.
This Carter G. Woodson quote from his book “The Miseducation of the Negro” has never rung more true and loud than right here and right now…
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