6 pieces
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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Commentary
A conversation about resistance, coalition, political education—and why progressive movements cannot build lasting power while leaving race at the margins.
When I sat down recently with longtime organizer Eric Mann, I expected us to talk about movement strategy. We did. But before we got very far,…
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