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Editorial Board

Jamala Rogers

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Jamala Rogers, founder and Chair Emeritus of the Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis. She is an organizer, trainer and speaker. She is the author of The Best of the Way I See It – A Chronicle of Struggle. Other writings by Ms. Rogers can be found on her blog jamalarogers.com. Contact Ms. Rogers and BC.

272 pieces

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The Breach Heard ‘Round the World’

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

They’re more concerned about the leak than the overturning of a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is outraged by Justice Samuel Alito’s leak of the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade. He decreed that the court…

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Can Earth Day be Relevant Again

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Along the way, the day devoted to saving our only habitat became a day of meaningless slogans and actions that make the general public and the guilty polluters feel good.

Earth Day was born on April 22, 1970. It was the brainchild of a liberal senator in Wisconsin who went on to become the governor. Gaylord…

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The Judicial Collusion in the Attack on Voting Rights

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

It is still a conservative court and with civil and constitutional rights laws under unprecedented assault, we are poised to witness legislative and judicial decisions that will take us backward real fast.

We celebrated the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the new US Supreme Court Justice. Jackson’s endurance of the GOP’s venom had little to do with…

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Lessons of the African Liberation Support Committee

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

America as we threw off the shackles of oppression—one with the gun and the other with direct actions. Incredible strides were made and African Liberation Day lives on.

You can tell things were popping in the late sixties and early seventies by all the anniversaries we’ve been celebrating over the last couple of years.…

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Understanding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

In addition to showing compassion for those victims of Russian military aggression, Black folks seem to be clear that Ukraine is between a rock and a hard place.

I have been intrigued at the interest and concern that Black people around me are expressing towards Ukraine. Not movement folks, the usual suspects. I’m talking…

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An Anniversary Unworthy of Celebration

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We know that masks (any mask) and isolation are deterrents to viruses. Yet we still are acting like neophytes as people continue to die.

For most of the country, this is about the time COVID-19, two years ago, when cases start turning up. To date, we’re closing in on 950,000…

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HBCUs Under Threats of Violence

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

It may be driven by a rabid, white extremist movement but it also enjoys the complacency of a silent majority of all racial and ethnic groupings.

Last year, African American actress Taraji P. Henson feared that the COVID-19’s impact on the Black community would be “trauma on top of trauma.” Henson was…

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Attica, the Documentary

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

This is the human toll it took to break open the prisoners’ rights movement and simultaneously create the blueprint for the imminent prison industrial complex.

If you have an interest and the intestinal fortitude, I encourage you to experience Attica, the documentary. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson brings the Attica massacre to the…

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Dr. King, Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

I can hear his emotional plea to provide people with the necessary information to make rational decisions about COVID-19 vaccinations, to transcend race and class in the name of saving lives.

The full quote of Dr. Martin Luther King is “There is nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” The quote comes to mind as…

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