Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
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BlackCommentator.com Publisher Peter Gamble is the recipient of a national Sigma Delta Chi award for public service in journalism and numerous other honors for excellence in reporting and investigative reporting. The "beats" he covered as a broadcast journalist ranged from activism in the streets to the State Department and White House. Contact Mr. Gamble. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
White Americans often may not feel as if they have to worry about talking to their children about such matters. Parents of color, however, don’t have that luxury.
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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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
In African spirituality, and many indigenous cultures, the ancestors are among us and connected to us, part of the living and spiritual realms.
We live in a time, not unlike the entire history of this country, where the lives of Black people are undervalued, discounted, disregarded and ended through…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
If Black leaders are not improving the material conditions of their people, they are worthless. Vibes are not enough and will not put food on the table.
Rula Jebreal is an Afro-Palestinian woman whose people have been in the middle of a genocide these past three years. She recently became embroiled in controversy…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
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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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
It seems that the state never separated itself from its deadly past of racial violence and racially violent laws.
The future of the nation is in the South, the former Confederacy and ground zero of America’s civil rights struggles. We need only look to a…
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Cover Story
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
In her quest for the presidency, the U.S. Senator from New York has presented herself as a qualified expert on civil rights and a participant in the civil rights movement.
Now Senator Hillary Clinton (D, NY) has some explaining to do. BlackCommentator.com has learned that Bill Clinton, while president, repeatedly praised the United Daughters of the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
many would be surprised at the high odds of innocent people being executed, which speaks to a criminal justice system riddled with problems, including witness misidentification, prosecutorial misconduct, incompetent lawyering, raw racism and class bias.
In the past four decades, 142 men and women were liberated from death row because they were innocent. Given that 1,328 people have been executed in…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor and Peter Gamble, BC Publisher
So, what do you make of a country where a third grader brings a gun to school to ward off bullies? In Inkster, Michigan an 8-year old boy brought a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun to his elementary school two days in a row for protection, and to scare off three girls who were bullying him.…
So, what do you make of a country where a third grader brings a gun to school to ward off bullies? In Inkster, Michigan an 8-year…
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