Viewpoints

VIEWPOINTS: UGA Teaching Assistant Shouldn’t Pay for Pointing out Racism

An African-American teaching assistant at the University of Georgia continues to face a backlash for his social media posts about…
African-Americans’ Economic Setbacks From the Great Recession are Ongoing – And Could Be Repeated

The financial crisis of 2009, the worst since the Great Depression, was hard on all Americans. But arguably no group…
Immigration, Legislation, Investigation and Child Poverty: Four Scholars Respond to Trump’s State of the Union

Editor’s note: In his second State of the Union address, President Donald Trump ranged from generous to combative, eloquent to…
In Northam Case: Should Sen. Kaine and Others Retrieve Their Stones?

As we ferret out truth from reality in the ongoing accusations against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, where do we draw…
VIEWPOINTS: Reflections on the Super Bowl LIII and the Soul of Atlanta

As a historian who studies W.E.B. Du Bois – and as someone who once lived in nearby Athens, Georgia –…
VIEWPOINTS: There’s a Wider Scandal Suggested by the Trump Investigations

There’s a wider scandal suggested by the Trump investigations The New York district attorney dropped a financial fraud investigation of…
VIEWPOINTS: Black Americans Mostly Left Behind by Progress Since Dr. King’s Death

On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back…
VIEWPOINTS: Keeping Your Resolutions and Goals For 2019 

In high school, one of my greatest passions was playing basketball. During my senior year, as the new season approached,…
Trump’s White Evangelicals Are Nostalgic for an American Past That Never Existed For Blacks And Others

In 2013, I received an email from Rev. Ray McMillan, the pastor of Faith Christian Center, a conservative evangelical and…
Viewpoints: White Churches Have A Moral Responsibility To Stand Up

In 2019, we will commemorate 400 years since the first 20 slaves were transported by ship from Africa by white…
Fascism: Deep in the Soil of the United States

He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never…
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VIEWPOINTS: With Two Years Until the 2020 Elections, Time to Get to Work

Most readers will be familiar with this scenario.  A white politician that you have not heard from in two years…
Why Politicians Were the Real Winners in Amazon’s HQ2 Bidding War

Now that Amazon has announced the winners of its competition to host its second headquarters, a question on many minds…
Stacey Abrams Outlines Future Fight for Fairer Elections in Georgia; Remains Committed to Fight for Voices of Georgians to be Heard

After running an historic campaign to be Governor of Georgia, former House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams addressed members of the media…
BlackPAC: “Stacey Abrams is an Extraordinary Leader for These Times”

BlackPAC’s mission is to galvanize the political power of Black voters. Driven by opinion research and in-depth conversations with voters…
Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Words are Unacceptable

Holding Our Political Leaders Accountable When Cindy Hyde-Smith made the statement that she would attend a “public hanging”, her statements…