Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD

Many bloggers were posting feverishly protective defenses of their use of the N-word, simultaneously questioning why it was permissible for Black people to espouse the word while other people could not.

No one can deny that Jesse Jackson, who died last week at the age of 84 was a larger than life figure. Whether it was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s gut-wrenching assassination in 1968, Barack Obama’s initial address as president-elect in November 2008, or any other historic moment relating to Black history over…

Reactionary populists have made their intentions clear to resist compromising their culturally exclusionary agendas compared to their more fair-minded conservative forebears.

Such mistreatment manifested itself in the form of Jim Crow, chattel slavery, lynching, wanton violence, and other abominable forms of marginalization.

Anyone who has a pulse and is socially and culturally aware recognizes the current challenges facing Black Americans and other BIPOC.

Unlike many of today's so-called leaders, he would not have sacrificed his people or political constituencies for his own personal gain but would have seen that, despite the progress made, there was still considerable work to do to "get to the Promised Land."

The outright falsehoods about the Minneapolis incident the Trump administration and the right-wing media echo chamber are manufacturing are problematic for many reasons

Thus, they have to live a life filled with hypocrisies and facades, participating in sham marriages while sheltering, disguising, and obscuring their sexuality, denouncing their fellows, and practicing self-hatred.