Mar 16, 2023
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
they are aggressively carrying out the calculated plan to derail the political and economic agenda of Black folks. All that cannot be taken back will be discredited or destroyed.
It’s intensifying. I’m referring to what Peniel Joseph calls the backlash to the Third Reconstruction. His latest book of the same name chronicles the cyclical and…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts.
On January 25, 1972 Shirley Chisholm, Member of Congress from New York's Twelfth District announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She became the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Schools teach slavery as a purely Southern phenomenon, and focus exclusively on white experiences, with scant attention to the impact on black people.
Another February has passed, and once again too many Americans view Black History Month as a footnote, impacting African-Americans but insignificant to the greater country. Slavery…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The late civil rights activist and author didn’t let elected officials off the hook, no matter how liberal. He understood the importance of intersectionality and what it takes to achieve progressive change.
In July 2015, when two Black Lives Matter activists challenged liberal candidates running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, the late Kevin Alexander Gray told me…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Developments in many countries like Peru, Brazil, Hungary and even the United States suggest that we cannot assume that once democracy exists, it will always last.
Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions that it rests on don't exist. Democratic governments have disappeared. Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Despite the characters being animals, the racial connections, innuendos, and slights were embedded, if you were hip to the racist jive hidden in plain sight.
This Spring Break, I’ll be smack, dab in the middle of one of America’s most combustible cultural battlegrounds, Disneyland. Now check this out; it’s going to…
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