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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

J. Pharoah Doss: The new breed of MLK detractors, Part 2

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. became a global hero after his assassination in 1968, and President Ronald Reagan cemented his legacy...

Fred Logan: Asante Sana Michelle Robinson-Obama, Thank You!

by Fred Logan                                           ...

J. Pharoah Doss: The new breed of MLK detractors, Part 1

Throughout his life, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had more detractors than allies. MLK became a global hero after his assassination...

Keith Boykin: The Blackest confirmation hearing

Keith Boykin This article originally published on Word In Black.  I’ve watched several of the confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet nominees, but the hearing for “the...

J. Pharoah Doss: Confusing DEI with actual diversity

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was established in 1965 to eliminate job discrimination.  Guaranteeing equal opportunity for historically discriminated-against groups became the nation’s top...

J. Pharoah Doss: Republicans Don’t Think Culture is a Problem All of a Sudden

In 2004, the NAACP invited Bill Cosby to speak on the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board school desegregation decision. Cosby...

J. Pharoah Doss: Biden’s lame duck death penalty one-upmanship

Getty Images Stock Photo Lame duck: an elected official continuing to hold political office during the period between the election and the inauguration of a...

J. Pharoah Doss: Did Good Samaritans deadlock the Danial Penny Jury?

Daniel Penny was arraigned on May 12 on a charge of second-degree manslaughter of Jordan Neely. Penny was acquitted of the crime this month...

J. Pharoah Doss: Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus

In 1989, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Andre Braugher starred in the American Civil War film Glory. The movie was about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry...

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