When CNN host, Chris Cuomo contracted coronavirus at the very beginning of the pandemic, there's…
You know, sometimes a thing looks just like it is. Imagine an ordinary guy doing the things Trump did — -leading up to, during, and after the insurrection. No need to elaborate. We all saw it with our own eyes. What do you…
The Rage and the Sorrow are Bottomless: Thoughts on the Words of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr.
The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that slavery degraded the slaveholder as much as it degraded the slave. Of his kind-hearted mistress who had never before owned a slave, he wrote:
"My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul…
Biden Won't Save America.
The Truth Will.
Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden suggested that "through Civil War, the great depression, world war, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifices, and setbacks, our better angels have prevailed." …
February Is Black History Month Crossword Puzzle
Joe Biden, James Eastland, Just Getting Along, and Cutting Your Own Throat
"Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished…But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. …
Long Live Identity Politics: A Word to the Complainers
Here we go again.
Dems, identity politics will not defeat Donald Trump
Since former Vice President Joe Biden joined the race, some Democrats have complained that despite the most diverse…
Like 2016, here come the think pieces on the evils of identity politics aka talking about difference (race, gender, sexuality) and complaints about politicians crafting policies based on identity rather than adopting broad- based economic strategies.
And then there are the White folks making the case…
What Bernie and Friends (and the Media) Don't Get About Black Voters
USA. New York City. 1963. Malcolm X rally in Harlem
Here come the media pieces purporting to figure out what's going on with Biden and Black voters.
Here's one and here's one.
Almost all hand wring over why, given Biden's history of missteps (Anita Hill, busing desegregation, the war on drugs, me too, etc.), …
When Britain Had a Trump
Selman Design; photographs by Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press and Popperfoto, via Getty Images
On October 11, 2016, Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to."
Trump sees himself as being in bondage — -shackled by the GOP and a victim of…
Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, America, and the March of Time
Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the constitutional oath. (CNN)
The late historian Howard Zinn spent a lifetime writing from the margins — -illuminating the omissions, the mythologies, the hypocrisies, the dark America that remains unmentionable. In 2005, after Chief Justice John G. …
A native of of the great state of Mississippi and proud resident of New Jersey. Lecturer and Doctoral candidate in Media, Race, Class, and Politics @Rutgers.