Elwood Watson
Earlier this month, during an event in Philadelphia supporting Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Florida Representative Byron Donalds made the attention-grabbing assertion that Black families were stronger and more conservative under the Jim Cr..
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg deserves to take a bow following his undeniable victory...
Right-wing politicians have made no secret of their disdain for the rule of law as well as our current state of democracy....
To state the 118th Congress is an exercise in debasement, dereliction, and dysfunction would be an understatement. House Republicans were advocating for holding Attorney General Merrick B...
Last week, right-wing commentator Ann Coulter told former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to his face she would not have voted for him because he’s Indian...
Editor's note: This column have been updated to include the correct name of an individual identified as shouting racial epithets. Ghosts of Mississippi...
To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. The result was a public relations disaster, shortly after which both Gay and Magill resigned...
For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. But it's nothing new for the Grand Old Party...
For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...
Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s...
Leave it to the right to make a cheap attempt to capitalize off human tragedy. Americans across the political spectrum expressed their sorrow and prayers toward the victims and their families...
From the minute President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense scrutiny. She can hardly sneeze without someone analyzing and dissecting her every move...
Full Archive
- 06/10/2024 Black Republican doesn’t know his Black history
- 06/03/2024 After Trump conviction, Bragg becomes the target
- 05/28/2024 On flags and fascism
- 05/21/2024 A troll in Congress
- 05/13/2024 Republicans of color aren’t standing up to racism
- 05/07/2024 The ghosts of Mississippi
- 04/30/2024 Republicans have no real interest in protecting Jewish students
- 04/23/2024 Trump’s vileness on race is hardly new among Republicans
- 04/17/2024 What you might have forgotten about OJ Simpson and his trial
- 04/09/2024 Defending higher education against cynical politics
- 04/03/2024 One again, Republicans are politicizing a tragedy
- 03/26/2024 Kamala Harris and the twin evils of ‘Jim Crow and Jane Crow’
- 03/19/2024 Meghan Markle doesn’t have to help Princess Kate
- 03/13/2024 Katie Britt and the cult of the kitchen
- 03/05/2024 The creep of Christian nationalism
- 02/27/2024 Black voters aren’t buying Trump’s racial pandering
- 02/19/2024 Women and the future of politics
- 02/16/2024 Congressman shows we still have a long way to go on race
- 02/06/2024 Taylor Swift and the Republican love affair with conspiracy theories
- 01/30/2024 Historic Miss America sidesteps controversy
- 01/23/2024 In his lust for power, Trump once again turns to xenophobia
- 01/16/2024 Trump and his dangerous ideas offer a mirror to too many Republicans
- 01/09/2024 The real reason Republicans are cheering
- 01/04/2024 What’s driving Nikki Haley?
- 12/28/2023 Generation X is almost 60
- 12/19/2023 Where are the Republicans criticizing Trump’s repulsive comments?
- 12/12/2023 When Trump says he’ll be a dictator, believe him
- 12/07/2023 The continued hypocrisy of so-called family values conservatives
- 12/05/2023 The end of the Republican Party
- 11/28/2023 Trump words speak to the dark side of his supporters
- 11/21/2023 The Confederate flag remains a symbol of hate
- 11/16/2023 Congress has become a wrestling ring
- 11/13/2023 For Republicans, it’s deja vu all over again
- 11/07/2023 Israel and free speech at our nation’s universities
- 10/30/2023 Matt Gaetz is right about the new Republican Speaker
- 10/23/2023 A really, really bad week for Trump’s election lies
- 10/17/2023 Republicans have their own war to contend with
- 10/10/2023 The pull of racism in America
- 10/04/2023 History in the House
- 10/03/2023 Conservatives are picking a fight with Taylor Swift they have no hope of winning
- 09/26/2023 Academic freedom is under assault in America
- 09/18/2023 The puppet of the House
- 09/11/2023 Black women deserve better
- 09/05/2023 Why should we care if a politician is unmarried?
- 08/31/2023 Jacksonville and the continued assault on Black people
- 08/28/2023 Popular country song leads to confusion on the right
- 08/22/2023 No surprise that Black judges are targets of the MAGA movement
- 08/15/2023 Lizzo and the peril of celebrity culture
- 08/08/2023 Racists don’t like to be called racists
- 08/02/2023 Trump indictment over Jan. 6 a pleasant surprise
- 08/01/2023 Men suffer from mental health issues, too
- 07/28/2023 Conservatives are the latest in a long line of Barbie critics
- 07/24/2023 Visit Florida, where you’ll learn about the benefits of slavery
- 07/20/2023 Country music star learns critics have freedom of speech, too
- 07/18/2023 Republicans had a pretty racist week
- 07/11/2023 Teaching about racism without discussing race?
- 07/06/2023 It’s time to seriously consider reparations
- 06/30/2023 Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is very revealing
- 06/27/2023 Quoting Hitler an example of the shift on the right
- 06/18/2023 Why Juneteenth is more important than ever
- 06/13/2023 Trump is a victim of his own making
- 06/08/2023 NAACP should focus less on symbolism, more on action
- 06/02/2023 Tina Turner was simply the best
- 05/24/2023 Marjorie Taylor Greene is at it again
- 05/17/2023 Biden’s white supremacy comments hit the mark, and one Republican senator
- 05/09/2023 Being disturbed doesn’t grant you the right to kill
- 05/04/2023 An argument for Kamala Harris?
- 04/27/2023 In America, knocking on the wrong door will get you shot
- 04/18/2023 We don’t need to mandate ‘trigger warnings’ in college
- 04/11/2023 The racism of Tennessee Republicans
- 04/04/2023 The white privilege of protesting Trump supporters
- 03/28/2023 Trump playing the old, racist hits
- 03/20/2023 Not ‘woke’ enough to understand its meaning
- 03/13/2023 Tucker Carlson is fake news
- 03/07/2023 ‘Dilbert’ creator shows racial progress is needed in America
- 02/27/2023 Depression and the expectations of men
- 02/21/2023 The final days of yet another Black History Month
- 02/13/2023 Underestimate Biden at your own political peril
- 02/06/2023 A police interaction with a young, Black girl had a happy ending
- 01/30/2023 Tyre Nichols’ death shows how racism even impacts Black officers
- 01/23/2023 DeSantis goes after Black history
- 01/16/2023 What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of our America?
- 01/10/2023 Amid McCarthy drama, Republicans tried to play the race card
- 12/30/2022 Can the Miss America pageant survive in today’s culture?
- 12/13/2022 The Right’s reaction to Brittney Griner’s release is telling
- 12/06/2022 Republicans still afraid to call out Constitution-shredding Trump
- 11/30/2022 Donald Trump’s appeal to racists
- 11/23/2022 Club Q massacre is sadly not shocking
- 11/17/2022 The latest target of right-wing media? Young voters and unmarried women.
- 11/10/2022 Knives finally come out for Trump
- 11/04/2022 The racist truth behind ‘poll watchers’
- 10/26/2022 Kidnapping of Black woman roils community near Kansas City
- 10/19/2022 Stop hating on liberal arts majors
- 10/12/2022 Will no Republican criticize racism within their party?
- 10/10/2022 Herschel Walker and Republican hypocrisy
- 10/03/2022 Dealing with the issue of male masculinity
- 09/23/2022 Disney’s latest remake a window into race in America
- 09/16/2022 The NBA and the N-word
- 09/08/2022 Biden angers MAGA Republicans. But he isn’t wrong.
- 09/01/2022 Violent threats in the wake of Mar-a-Lago search
- 08/15/2022 Mar-a-Lago and the kerosene right
- 08/08/2022 Conservatives embrace far-right ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semite’
- 07/26/2022 Justice remains elusive in Emmett Till’s murder
- 07/07/2022 Another Black casualty at the hands of police
- 06/26/2022 Conservatives ended Roe v. Wade. Now they want more.
- 06/23/2022 The new violent right
- 06/12/2022 Liberal admiration for Liz Cheney
- 05/29/2022 U-turn desperately needed on guns in America
- 05/18/2022 Racism and violence in Buffalo
- 05/10/2022 Madison Cawthorn has become a problem for Republicans
- 04/27/2022 The plight of Black conservatives
- 04/19/2022 Abortion debate centers around power and control
- 04/12/2022 Republicans are playing a dangerous game
- 04/06/2022 Some Republicans now saying quiet racist things out loud
- 03/29/2022 Will Smith’s actions solely a reflection on Will Smith
- 03/22/2022 Correction: The hatred of Jussie Smollett
- 03/08/2022 Racist attacks continue against Biden’s Supreme Court pick
- 02/28/2022 The ‘freak of nature’ problem
- 02/22/2022 There are no cancel culture winners
- 02/14/2022 Correction: One NFL story that won’t go away
- 02/07/2022 We need to fight right-wing censorship
- 01/30/2022 A Black women on the Supreme Court is long overdue
- 01/23/2022 Misquoting MLK not just a Republican problem
- 01/18/2022 The right to vote must be preserved
- 01/10/2022 Sidney Poitier: Class, Wit, and Dignity
- 01/06/2022 Sadly, former Judge’s racial slurs are nothing new
- 01/03/2022 In Defense of the Miss America Pageant
- 12/21/2021 ‘We Can’t Overstate Her Influence’: Remembering bell hooks
- 12/14/2021 Democracy Itself Is At Stake
- 12/07/2021 Critics Using the ‘Politically Correct’ Playbook on ‘Woke’
- 12/02/2021 Why Conservative Media Didn’t Latch on to the Ahmaud Arbery Case
- 11/23/2021 Kyle Rittenhouse is the New Darling of the Right
- 11/11/2021 Ahmaud Arbery and the Limits of Justice
- 11/02/2021 Conservatives Cling to Faux Outrage Over Critical Race Theory
- 10/14/2021 Jon Gruden is Just the Tip of the NFL’s Racism Problem
