David A. Love, JD

On this Mother’s Day, it is fitting that we take time to think of all of the mothers, disproportionately poor, and disproportionately of color, who are behind bars in the United States. Victims of a failed war on drugs, pawns in a for-profit prison scheme that requires more and more warm bodies, locked up, to…

Meanwhile, conservative-turned-liberal commentator Arianna Huffington has criticized the “self-loathing” liberal media for placing “unabashed propagandists” on their payroll, deceptive individuals such as Karl Rove at Newsweek, Tony Snow at CNN, and Bill Kristol at the New York Times. To add insult to injury, one of the debate moderators, George Stephanopoulos, a former advisor to Hillary…

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To be sure, vast reservoirs of racism still exist in the United States. There are some voters in this country who do not like Black people, and will not vote for a person of color, nor anyone who is not a White man, for that matter. But given that those votes never were for the…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member David A. Love, JD is a lawyer and journalist based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to the Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, In These Times and Philadelphia Independent Media Center. He contributed to the book, States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). Love is a former…

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. In her quest for the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Hillary Clinton was more than willing to use the race card to attack Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor and mentor, for “controversial” statements he made about this country’s racist history and violent policies. “He…

In this so-called land of equality and opportunity, it seems, some people are more equal than others. Although it has been over half a century since the historic Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, America retains huge reserves of inequality of opportunity. The poor and people of color find themselves on the…