The country is braced for the imminent Supreme Court decision that is expected to overrule race-conscious admissions in higher education. The rupture in racial progress that this will cause will only begin at the campus gates. This impending opinion will likely upend the watershed decision of Brown v. Board of…

Our racially and economically stratified society is not in a slow descent into a dystopian hell. We have arrived. And hell here is not a lake of fire. For Jordan Neely, hell is being strangled to death in a subway car as onlookers watched in a detached resolve all because…

As I watched the president emerge from Independence Hall in Philadelphia last night to address the nation on the rising scourge of fascism and those that have been called MAGA Republicans, I could not help but take note of the irony of the spectacle. Biden and the Democrats sought to…

We are still living out the consequence of European conquest and colonization of the Indigenous peoples and lands of this continent. The very law they raise up to defend their right to bear arms was a law born out of their will to protect what they stole and to defend…

You were Our Blackness Reinvented By the necessary of our condition A pride chiseled in your flesh Defiant as a mountain and as abrasive You put the diss in dissonance A sonic boom clash of dissent Bombarding our senses with an incessant chant of right and exact A pariah to…

bell hooks saved me. I say that in all sincerity. …

Earlier this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report in which 11 women accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. In his videotaped defense, Cuomo suggested that his behavior was “cultural” and not gender-specific. He displayed photos of himself kissing the cheeks of other…

Earlier this week the Congress passed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, and, somehow we are supposed to see this as an act of progress and cause for celebration. Yet, when placed within the context of our current condition as a people and placed within the context of the history…

A year ago the whole world witnessed one of the most glaring and repulsive acts of police violence captured on video when Derek Chauvin, with the active support and cooperation of his fellow officers, put the full weight of his body on the neck of George Floyd as he lay…