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Executive Editor

David A. Love, JD

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David A. Love, JD - Serves BlackCommentator.com as Executive Editor. He is a journalist, commentator, human rights advocate, a Professor at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information based in Philadelphia, a contributor to Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, The Washington Post, theGrio, AtlantaBlackStar, The Progressive, CNN.com, Morpheus, NewsWorks and The Huffington Post. He also blogs at davidalove.com. Contact Mr. Love and BC.

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US Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery and America Pays the Price

By David A. Love, JD 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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Years After Trayvon Martin Killing, Two Women’s Lives Intersect

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Myrlie Evers-Williams and Sybrina Fulton are two great women whose achievements demand our attention. Although their personal stories are separated by five decades, these women share parallel lives.

When people are faced with overwhelming trauma in their lives, some become consumed by their difficulties, while others emerge stronger for it. In special circumstances, they…

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Can We Just Say That Fox News Is a White Nationalist Propaganda Outfit

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

A threat to a multicultural democracy and the rule of law, Fox News is a real threat to Black lives and other people of color.

Fox “News” is not a right-leaning news organization but a propaganda network created to help the Republican Party. A threat to democracy, Fox News divides people…

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Malcolm X and the Black Lives Matter Movement

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

As the nation grapples with the seemingly intractable nature of institutional racism and inequities in the justice system, the slain leader resonates with a Black Lives Matter movement born decades after his death.

February 21 marked the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, just over a half century ago. Malcolm X articulated a message of racial justice that…

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Why the Black Press Is More Relevant Than Ever

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

It’s been 190 years since the creation of the black press, and it’s as relevant as ever.

For years, newsrooms across America have had a problem with a lack of diversity and inclusion. People of color are underrepresented among news organizations, which do…

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Why Are People Protesting Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Protesters maintain that Cop City will allow the police to continue to kill Black people and thwart and suppress community protest and responses to that police violence.

Despite yearlong protests from environmental and anti-police activists in the Atlanta area, and right on the heels of the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis,…

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John Sims, the Artist Known for Burning the Confederate Flag, Reminds Us of the Power of Black Art

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

His ritual burning and burying of the confederate flag every Memorial Day was an example of the artist engaged in protest. But he did not leave it there.

Of the many people we lost in 2022, one whose passing flew under the radar was multimedia artist, mathematician, Afrofuturist, writer, producer and activist John Sims,…

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Florida Is America’s Insurrection Capital

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

This decision to block the teaching of Black history is par for the course for DeSantis, who is waging a full-scale war on racial justice, civil rights and voting rights in the Sunshine State.

Florida, that popular tourist destination with lots of sun, beaches and Mickey Mouse, has become a circus of white supremacist madness. A state with a long,…

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Media Reaction to Jerry Jones Shows That White Men Suffer No Consequences

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Will influential white men ever suffer consequences for the bad things they do? Do the news media even care?

When you look at those photos from the 1950s and 1960s of Black students integrating a school, you’ll undoubtedly see some white people — young people…

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