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BlackCommentator.com Commentator, Dr. Elwood Watson, Historian, public speaker, and cultural critic is a professor at East Tennessee State University and author of the recent book, Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press), which is available in paperback and on Kindle via Amazon and other major book retailers. Cotnact Dr.Watson and BC.
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To pretend otherwise is engaging in willful ignorance and denial.
Upon hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s six conservative justices had callously dismantled to the last vestiges the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), I, like…
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Mr. Carlson routinely misled more than 3.5 million viewers on his Fox News show.
While spending decades promoting and trumpeting blatant falsehoods about immigrants, declaring Black people as violent criminals and feminists as sadistic vixens, and heavily assisting in helping…
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Research indicates that Catholic voters are the United States' largest group of religious swing voters.
President Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo XIV has only become more acerbic since the commander-in-chief posted an AI-generated image of himself last week. The image…
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The abuse went on for several years of their childhood.
Weeks later, more than a few people on the political, social, and cultural left are still reeling from the recent disturbing allegations against Cesar Chavez: namely,…
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The more she worked to diminish the Epstein controversy, the more public interest grew.
On April 2, Pam Bondi became the latest Trump official to bite the political dust, so to speak. Admittedly, such news was hardly surprising. Those deeply…
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Afroman was exercising his rights as an American, and the court upheld the rule of law in this case.
First Amendment and free speech issues have been part of the American political mosaic since the nation’s dawn. Indeed, the founding fathers declared it the inaugural…
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Something despicable, dispiriting, demented, and deplorable is being unleashed and ungoverned.
Recently, the Miami Herald exposed the savage dialogue of a lengthy group chat for conservative students at Florida International University that the secretary of Miami-Dade County’s…
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The public needs to be assured that it can trust and verify the information being fed to them by the government. We have been in enough wars with no feasible exit strategy.
The undefined war the US and Israel are fighting in Iran has reached its third week, and social media continues to be dominated by riveting images…
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The crackdown exploded in Minneapolis with rampant and ruthless raids and releasing teargas in the streets.
Kristi Noem endured the blunt reality that she, too, was not immune from being terminated. President Trump gave Noem her walking papers when he dismissed her…
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