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J. Pharoah Doss: Larry Elder, fatherless homes, and executive decisions

LARRY ELDER In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon Johnson, published The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, which...

J. Pharoah Doss: The cleanest whitewash of history

Fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad - Getty Images stock photo Following the publication of Florida’s new history standards, two sentences from the 216-page document...

J. Pharoah Doss: Prioritizing history is hard — a tough experiment

Vintage portrait features the first African-American Senators and Representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States, 1869-1873. Getty Images Stock Illustration History...

J. Pharoah Doss: The opposite of Stockholm syndrome 

Vintage illustration represents the emancipation of Southern slaves at the end of the American Civil War. This image contrasts the life of a slave...

Did microaggressions undermine Affirmative Action?

Getty Images  by J. Pharoa Doss Affirmative Action proponents have always considered it a form of racial justice. These policies were supposed to make up for...

Did ‘positive discrimination’ kill Affirmative Action?

by J. Pharoah Doss Political theorists make distinctions between negative and positive rights. A negative right is when a person can freely do something without...

J. Pharoah Doss: California reparations … remission or restitution?

Over the last decade, Americans have debated the necessity of a racial reckoning. This impulse led to puzzling attempts to make amends for the...

J. Pharoah Doss: Obama bum-rushed Tim Scott over racism, but what signal did that send?

During the 2000 Democratic primary, Illinois state senator Barack Obama challenged Congressman Bobby Rush. Rush was a former Black Panther who transitioned into a...

J. Pharoah Doss: BLM was always bankrupt regardless of its finances

According to reports, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is on the verge of bankruptcy. According to other accounts, Black Lives Matter has...

J. Pharoah Doss: Jim Crow déjà vu or ‘am I oppressed?’

Thurgood Marshall spoke to many NAACP youth groups before the United States Supreme Court overturned segregation in 1954. Marshall, an NAACP lawyer, asked the...

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