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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.

633 pieces

Color of Law

Why Not Blame It on a Black Man?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

in a nation where the color of your skin can determine where you live, your livelihood and even your life or death, parents of color may feel the need to help their children navigate through a color-coded society fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.

I just read a pilot study that CNN released on the racial attitudes of children. And nearly 60 years after the watershed Brown v. Board of…

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A World Where We Treat All Children As Our Own

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Ultimately, the Occupation is the elephant in the room, a policy which deprives the occupied of their dignity and right to self-determination, and denies the occupiers their humanity and robs them of the opportunity to become a truly democratic state.

When the family of kidnapped and lynched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir recently grieved together with the family of abducted and murdered Israeli teen Naftali Fraenkel,…

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Jewish Atonement for the Genocide in Gaza

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Israel is justice for Jews, and redemption from the ashes of the Holocaust. Jews were most certainly the victims of Nazi Germany, but they are not the victims now in Israel.

The following are remarks I gave on an August 27, 2025 panel discussion entitled: “Atoning for Gaza: North American Jews and the Work of Teshuvah.” The…

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Please Excuse Me While I Grieve for My Son, Ezra

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

I wanted to see him grow up, But the Universe had other ideas, other plans for him, Perhaps I’ll never understand,

(Note: Ezra Malik Katz was born sleeping August 39, 2008) Please excuse me while I grieve for my boy… The other day I was walking through…

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Who Were the Sisters Who Stood Up to the Police?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Decades before Black Lives Matter, Black women were showing up, showing out, and showing us how to do it.

In recent years, there was the iconic photo of Ieshia Evans, a Black woman and a nurse from Pennsylvania who stood graceful and silent against a…

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Black People, Be a Part of Something Greater Than Yourself

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Black Lives Matter started with a few sisters and a social media hashtag, and the rest is history.

With inflation, student loans, paying the bills, climate change, police violence and so many other problems we face, there is a tendency to feel helpless and…

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Should Cannabis Be a Form of Reparations?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

In many ways, the public policy debate over weed has come full circle.

Cannabis has emerged as a racial justice issue for Black people in America, and it makes sense. After years of atrocious marijuana policies that criminalized and…

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The Great Migration of Black People Transformed America

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, the New York community experienced a cultural, intellectual, literary, musical, artistic, fashion and political explosion.

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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Black Veterans Are Deported After Serving America

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In reality, many Black people are among those who are deported, and some of them have served in the U.S. military.

When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In…

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