Not only is it clearly evident that American public school education has not been paying enough attention to teaching American government (generally called Civics) for the last 20 years or […]
Category: Opinion
Posted inCounting the Cost, Opinion
Black Buffalo is hurting from more than the massacre
I was invited to join folks from Black Lives Matter to meet some of the affected in Buffalo, N.Y. — people who have been traumatized by the awful May 14 […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The Politics of racial in-fighting during political campaigns
As some of us remember well from public school days, some of our chums seemed to like to stir things and people up, so they’d regularly start any trouble they […]
Posted inPractical Politics
The politics of increasing our options
Without question we have put in the time, the patience, the Christian struggle, the military volunteerism, and anything else we thought would win the day of full acceptance as American […]
Posted inPractical Politics
The politics of doing what you want and need
I’m full of relatable experience this week and the heft is weighing me down. I’m just returning from a very important Pan African conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that begs […]
Posted inCounting the Cost, National
If White supremacy is poison, Ethnic Studies is the antidote
By Julianne Malveaux oped contributor President Joe Biden was uncharacteristically, but appropriately, angry and firm when he described White supremacy as “poison.” He spoke from Buffalo days after a putrid […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The politics of beginning anew
The Jen Psaki era as U.S. Press Secretary is now over (Friday, May 13 was her last day), and by the bulk of comments which have come and are coming […]
Posted inCounting the Cost, Opinion
Our disappearing rights
When the Supreme Court overturned Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, it struck a blow to voting rights. No longer did states with a history of discrimination have to […]
Posted inNational, Practical Politics
The politics of never giving up
Though the racial riots which occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Greenwood District right after Memorial Day in 1921 have been studied, exasperated and prayed over, and even included in 21st […]
