April 25, 2024
Color of Law
Executive Editor
The exodus North has become the exodus to the South, where the weather and the grits are better.
The South is home for the majority of Black people in this country. There was a time during the days of Jim Crow segregation when millions…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
If the concept of authoritarianism is coming to your mind, you are normal and understand the dangerous erosion of civil rights in a so-called democracy.
DeRay Mckesson is a controversial person in the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mckesson is at the center of a legal battle that went all the way…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
They want to be able to purchase, online from Sam’s Club, personal tanks for home protection.
Today it’s arming teachers in Tennessee and banning abortions, nationwide; only God knows what’s next, or how far their meanness will go. Black people to the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
New reforms have made it easier and cheaper to make calls to and from incarcerated people. But corporate profiteering will continue until we abolish the system.
I recently saw the face of a friend whom I had never met before. In a video call to a California state prison facility, I was…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
AIPAC’s bullying may help, not hurt, these progressive legislators as their supporters are rallying around them.
Let me begin with the obligatory statements. What happened on October 7, 2023, was horrible. Hamas launched an attack on Israel that some describe as “unprovoked.”…
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