J. Pharoah Doss Archives

Jan. 6: When does ‘Never Forget’ also mean ‘Don’t Remember?’

Courier Newsroom - June 28, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Right now, you can go online and buy a tee-shirt that says: "Never Forget January 6, 2021." That’s...

J. Pharoah Doss: Events before Juneteenth that are worthy of recognition

Courier Newsroom - June 21, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Right before Juneteenth was made a federal holiday last year, a Forbes columnist wrote, “On June 19,...

Check It Out …The Walmart Juneteenth controversy

Courier Newsroom - June 11, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In January 2021 headlines announced 20 must-have items from Walmart’s MLK day sale, and there were no...

J. Pharoah Doss…What money can’t buy?

Courier Newsroom - May 24, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow along with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Chair of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard...

J. Pharoah Doss…BIPOC: Empowering the marginalized?

Courier Newsroom - May 17, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Last week, I mentioned a press conference in 1988 when Rev. Jesse Jackson stated “Black” no longer...

African American: In defense of the term

Courier Newsroom - May 9, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 1988 Rev. Jesse Jackson urged Black Americans to drop the adjective “Black” and replace it with...

Check It Out … The BLM activist who shot by the door

Site Editor - March 6, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier For years Black Lives Matter demanded the elimination of cash bail because its negative impact on people...

Defunding public schools to ‘Save American History?’

Courier Newsroom - February 16, 2021

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Recently, Angela Burks Hill, a Republican state senator in Mississippi, introduced a bill called, “Saving American History...

MLK, the Kerner Report, and the Fourth Estate

Courier Newsroom - January 25, 2021

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier First, let me explain the terms in the above title that might be unfamiliar to some. The Kerner...

President-elect Biden’s ‘unrelenting’ commitment to diversity

RTMNews - December 20, 2020

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier President-elect Joe Biden told the American people, “My administration’s going to look like America, not just my...

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