The Last Poets, the original rappers with a message and a purpose, said “It’s alright to die for a cause, but not just because.” Those words continue to have meaning […]
Tag: op ed
Posted inCounting the Cost, National
The dynamics of resistance
Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is Black Resistance. It is appropriate […]
Posted inNational
The politics of a sustained national craziness
Nations and societies hold together best when their populations collectively believe in those nation’s histories and national lessons. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, through its public schools, museums and […]
Posted inGovernment
‘Tis a time for political change
Locally in the State of California, we have a first with an African-American woman as the first female mayor of the City of Los Angeles. The significance of this is […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The politics of stealth youth politics
I’m feeling good today. Like I never lost it. Didn’t slip and skid it away to age or retirement along the way. I could and probably should wait for accolades […]
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 inOpinion, Opinion-OW, Practical Politics
The politics of cultural greatness in spite of
On Monday night, May 2nd of this week, almost a Black phantom artistic production was performed on the campus of the University of Southern California, since the vast majority of […]