June 29, 2023
Cover Story
Editorial Board
our President must ask how we get past the history to compensate the descendants of enslaved people who still experience generational trauma from enslavement.
Just two years ago, in 2021, The Senate unanimously passed legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19) a federal holiday. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
How can we hope to cure, repair, mitigate the centuries of damages done by racism when we cannot even officially and unequivocally make the diagnosis?
Maybe my decades of activism on this have begun to frustrate me a bit but I've been wondering - exactly what are we celebrating? If hearing…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim,” Douglass said. Black people need reparations for centuries of intergenerational trauma, forced labor, theft and torture.
On this Fourth of July, a day of independence for some but not for Black people, there is no better time to reflect on Frederick Douglass’…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
such forces have been very astute to playing on the fears, resentments, hatreds, fragilities and insecurities that have rankled the psyches of their listeners, readers, voters, and congregations.
Last week, after understandable outrage, an Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty, a nonprofit organization that advocates for “parental rights” in education, ended up apologizing and…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Steely-eyed, rapacious capitalists engaging in unscrupulous, predatory practices, honed by formidable corporate titans from esteemed institutions - what does that tell us, my friend?
Let’s walk and talk through the madness gripping this ball of confusion, mass confusion. Raised as an only child, my paternal grandparents crafted me into an…
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