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Dr. West’s campaign: A Spoiler in the Making Dr. Cornel West entered the 2024 race fully aware of the damage a third-party run could do. Ralph Nader spoiled Al Gore’s chances in 2000, and Jill Stein spoiled Hillary’s in 2016. But West naively believed he could attract voters who never touched a Democratic or Republican… Read more.
So Taylor Swift is risking fame and fortune to champion democratic values and stand on the right side of history. But Patrick Mahomes doesn’t have the balls or public consciousness to do the same. Any self-respecting Black man in his position would take pride in doing all he can to stop Trump and his MAGA confederates… Read more.
Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all enslaved people in the Southern States. But Union soldiers took two-and-a-half years to inform Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Enslaved Blacks there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates this unconscionable delay. Yet, that… Read more.
Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, shattering racial barriers. He was the brilliant mind behind the strategy that eradicated state-sponsored segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. He founded The Legal Defense Fund to aid the Civil Rights… Read more.
It seems we’re observing this MLK Day in a time warp. Because America today looks so much like the Jim Crow America MLK spent his life fighting to change. Observing MLK Day in Jim Crow 2.0 America America is on a schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of MLK’s famous dream. On the one hand, America elected the first Black man as… Read more.
Tennessee legislature expels Black lawmakers On Thursday, the Tennessee legislature expelled two Black lawmakers. But it spared a White one. Why did Tennessee expel lawmakers? They have earned the moniker the “Tennessee Three.” That’s for protesting a flawed bill to combat gun violence. It said nothing about guns. And, of course, they were protesting in the wake of… Read more.
Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. … On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end… Read more.
Yes, this is cause for celebration. Saudi Arabia was the only country still denying women this basic human right. Granted, women there are still living in a time warp. But they are getting their panoply of civil rights with more “deliberate speed” than women, to say nothing of blacks, in America got theirs. Saudi Arabia has… Read more.
I have always been a bigger fan of the politics The Beatles advocated than of the songs they sang. I especially admired their anti-war views which, to their credit, they actually sang about in songs like Revolution and Give Peace a Chance. But it seems I may have just cause to become an even bigger… Read more.
