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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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Jailyn R. Smith, who is scheduled to graduate later this month, certainly demonstrated herself to be the mature, decent human being in this sordid encounter.
History on the rerun? Ghosts of Mississippi? Mississippi burning? Magnolia State maintains its horrendously racist image? Any of these statements could be used to describe the…
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A university’s role is to teach students how to think critically and courageously.
To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. When Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the…
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His popularity was such that whenever he walked into restaurants, athletic or other public events, many people stood up and cheered at his presence! And that intense admiration was reciprocated by him.
It did not take long after his death on April 11th that Orenthal James Simpson (better known as OJ Simpson to the public), became the immediate…
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These heroic men who lost their lives were not “poisoning the blood of our country,” rather, on the contrary, they were rejuvenating it!
Leave it up to the political right to attempt to make a cheap attempt to politically as well as perversely capitalize off human tragedy. For most…
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one would be hard pressed to think of a vice president in recent memory who has been placed under such a political microscope.
From the minute President Biden selected her as his running mate in 2020, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense gossip. Indeed, there has been…
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One thing is for certain, Katie Britt was successful in one manner. She had people talking about her.
It was The Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid’s Tale. For anyone regularly tuned into the world of American politics or popular culture, you are aware of…
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the fact remains that the former commander-in-chief embodies a record on racial issues that is far from admirable.
Being the ever-menacing carnival barker that he is, former president Donald J. Trump, in a speech to a Black conservative group on the night of February…
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Taking such a shameful position is classic political double speak, and a prime example of cowardice.
Most Americans who are routinely plugged into the news cycle are aware of the fact that much ado was made about something (yes something) when Nikki…
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the cold, hard reality is that the current dilemma that Republicans are facing is that the problem lies within the party itself. Period.
Waterloo? The apocalypse? The Titanic? These are just some of the terms that observers are employing as they describe the current state of the Republican Party.…
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