This commentary was first published in October of 2019. But we must not let down our guard as certain segments of America want a white nationalist, fascist society. For people of color, the past three and one-half years of slogging through Donald Trump’s America have brought many new realizations about…

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash: This officer is not one mentioned in this commentary. This commentary was first published in October of 2019 when white supremacist were supporting the police no matter what they did. …

This commentary was first published in April of 2019 when Donald Trump was running for the presidency. Donald Trump is trying his best to demonize Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota’s 5th congressional district by unfairly castigating her for public remarks she has made in recent weeks. …

This commentary was first published in February of 2019 when we were living through a time when the occupant of the White House wanted to shoot peaceful Black protesters but called Skin heads and Nazis “very fine people.” It’s time we stop lying to ourselves. The lying has gone on…

This commentary was first published in June of 2019. It seems like every day we learn about another facet of the cruelty of the American criminal justice system. Ava DuVernay’s blockbuster documentary on Netflix, When They See Us, has heightened the furor over the fact that, in America, law enforcement…

This was first published in 2019, but there is still a lot of work to do to eradicate prison gerrymandering. Almost every high school student in America knows about the compromise reached during the drafting of the U.S. …

This Commentary was first published in May of 2019, and some of the facts are dated since the death of George Floyd. But parallel to the recent attacks on teaching the truth about America’s racist past, there has been a resurgence of false narratives about a an idyllic South with…

This commentary was first published in July of 2018 when Trumpism was riding high. This was when it became evident that America was taking an ugly turn that would be around for years. There was a reason Ku Klux Klan members wore hoods that hid their faces. Anonymity allows people…

This commentary was first published in August of 2018, but we still have a lot of rot arising from white supremacy in many of the law enforcement agencies in America. In June of 1994, Minister Lewis Farrakhan came to speak at the Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. …