In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working […]
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George Floyd five years later
None of us can forget the moment we saw the murder of George Floyd unfolding before our very eyes. The sight of a white officer’s knee squeezing the life from […]
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Practical Politics
This week’s article is a continuation of the effort to get reparations for Black Americans in the U.S.A. My mind, however, is still on Trump’s current attempts to wreck the […]
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The Heritage Foundation is the true public enemy
In many corners of the world, America is seen and respected as the greatest nation in the world. That level of respect doesn’t come only from being a nuclear or […]
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A tribute to Alexis Herman
May we take a moment to mourn the transition of the Honorable Alexis Margaret Herman (1946-2025), the first African American woman who served our nation as Secretary of Labor. Nominated […]
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Practical Politics
Donald Trump is an enigma in at least one sense. He’s not a very well educated man, nor is he overly bright. According to what college records have become available, […]
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Pope Leo XIV, MAGA agitator
The Vatican knew exactly what it was doing when Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected to replace the late Pope Francis. It gave the world a social justice warrior […]
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Defying Trump’s crusade to rewrite American history
“He can try to rewrite history, but we have the receipts. And as the Smithsonian’s exhibits magnificently illustrate, African Americans have survived — and overcome — much worse than the […]
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Practical Politics
The politics of downdrafting
a Black quarterback
