Independent since 2002 Issue No. 1102 Week of November 7, 2026 Get the free email dispatch →

Salim Faraji and Jahi Issa

Guest Commentators

Salim Faraji Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Jahi Issa Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Click here to contact the authors.

1 piece

Commentary

Breaking With Tradition: Why Two Young African American Professors Support Barack Obama – Think Piece

By Salim Faraji and Jahi Issa

As “Black” men who are ethnically, culturally and historically African American, meaning persons of African descent indigenous to the United States, Faraji from Philadelphia and Issa from St. Louis, we have traditionally supported, without question, veteran Civil Rights leaders and their unyielding demands that African Americans support the Clintons. We now believe that they are…

As “Black” men who are ethnically, culturally and historically African American, meaning persons of African descent indigenous to the United States, Faraji from Philadelphia and Issa…

Continue reading 4 min

$ $ Contribute $ $