David A. Love, JD

local officials were unable and unwilling to stop Klan violence and were complicit, and federal troops rarely did anything to intervene.

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.

With “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” people of the African diaspora have been focused on returning home to Africa. This includes the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade in America, those who have shifted their attention to living outside the U.S.

Harry Belafonte truly left his mark as an activist, a civil rights and human rights leader, a humanitarian and a moral compass of our community.

America has a long history of removing Black lawmakers from office, quelling dissent and subverting the will of the voters — all for the sake of raw power, resisting demographic change and maintaining White dominance through antidemocratic and dictatorial means.

this race is proof that while politics is local, local politics can have serious implications on a statewide and national level.

Some would call it theft, as in the theft of billions of dollars in federal and state government money to Black institutions. This is systemic racism 150 years in the making - complete with receipts.

in a settler colonial state, there are two things the settlers fear—Black folks overthrowing the plantation state, and Black folks joining forces with the poor White folks. And they just can’t have that.

Ethnic studies present history from the standpoint of underrepresented groups in America, and acknowledges the pivotal role of race and racism in society, along with gender, class, sexual orientation, and other identities.