May 11, 2023
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Communities may concede the painful loss of one round, but there are still rounds left in this battle.
In the post-Ferguson Uprising period, urban communities across the country began changing the political landscape by electing prosecutors with an agenda for fairness and justice. In…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
He did not live to see the many fruits of his tireless labor, including the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, perhaps the greatest piece of civil rights legislation in history.
When he took his place behind the podium at Brown Chapel AME Church and began his address to young civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama, Malcolm…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
there are all too many signs of America’s decline, ranging from mass shootings to mass incarceration to mass hysteria about voter fraud and “stolen” elections to massive Pentagon and police budgets.
I turn 60 this year. My health is generally good, though I have aches and pains from a form of arthritis. I’m not optimistic enough to…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The nation is now divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed and encouraged to vote and those who yearn for an anti-democratic system in which an extremist white minority has unchecked control over everyone else.
In the US, the right-wing voter suppression efforts reached a level not seen since the era of segregation, when white supremacists in the South had passed…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
It seems unimaginable that we are backsliding into the era of exploiting child labor. But that’s precisely what the GOP appears to be doing.
Two recent exposés about child labor in the United States highlight how prevalent the once-outlawed practice has become. In February, the New York Times published an…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
we’ve created a culture in which people imagine that militarism is praiseworthy, that violence solves problems, and that revenge is one of the highest values.
It’s been two years since I wrote on this topic. At that time, at least 36% of U.S. mass shooters had been trained by the U.S.…
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