71.1 F
Atlanta
Thursday, October 9, 2025
- Advertisement -spot_img

TAG

commentary

J. Pharoah Doss: Books can’t compete with the screen?

Getty Images Stock Photo Novelist Philip Roth told an interviewer: The book can’t compete with the screen. It couldn’t compete—beginning—with the movie screen. It couldn’t...

J. Pharoah Doss: Hold the Harris horses

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TOLD SUPPORTERS IN PITTSBURGH THAT VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT WILL BE THE BEST DECISION ONE COULD MAKE. (PHOTO BY...

J. Pharoah Doss: Cherry-picking James Baldwin on his centennial

The prolific black writer James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and would have turned 100 at the beginning of this month. Numerous...

J. Pharoah Doss: Anti-war protest, negative peace, and existential threats

Palestinian and Israeli flags fly in old Jerusalem. iStock / Getty Images Plus When World War II broke out in Europe in 1939, the United States...

J. Pharoah Doss: Only gifted students can correctly answer…How do you equalize a forest?

Adobe Stock Photo In the first half of the 20th century, educators assigned children who performed above grade level to higher grades. By the 1950s,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Misusing MLK moral authority

 Over the last decade, numerous riots have erupted in response to fatal encounters between unarmed Black individuals and police officers. Martin Luther King Jr....

J. Pharoah Doss: There’s lies, darn lies, and crime statistics

In April 2015, a Black man died in the back of a police vehicle in Baltimore, sparking weeks of protests and rioting. Black Lives...

J. Pharoah Doss: Cornel West and “lies that hide”

CORNEL WEST AND MELINA ABDULLAH (CornelWest.com Photo) Independent presidential candidate Cornel West chose fellow academic Melina Abdullah as his running mate. Abdullah teaches pan-African studies...

J. Pharoah Doss: Victim response to UN’s 30th commemoration of Rwanda genocide

Day of Remembrance of Rwandan Genocide Victims (Adobe Stock Illustration)   The Rwandan genocide stunned the entire world in 1994. The Hutu majority systematically exterminated around...

J. Pharoah Doss: Right-wing simpletons, self-immolators, and flame fanners

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST OWEI LAKEMFA Constance Garnett translated the majority of Russian literature into English in the first half of the twentieth century. After translating...

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img