She didn’t just play the race card — she actually lived it!

Commentary with Carol Boyce-Davies (Miami Hearld) Let’s agree that Rachel Dolezal is a learned performer in blackface, an authentic one-woman minstrel show. But let’s also agree that black womanhood cannot be captured in a performance or in body image, skin tone,...

Black youth: Let them be recognized, not radicalized.

(Orlando Sentinel) Black youth protesting on the streets of America should be recognized and celebrated, not demonized. For four centuries, black youth have been the moral compass of the U.S. Black youth have borne the brunt of violent oppression fighting enslavement,...

Obama’s strategy for Syria is unwise, alarming and illegal

(Orlando Sentinel) Why is President Obama provoking war with Syria? It’s not because the U.S. State Department has designated Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1979 or because the government of President Bashar Assad is evil or may have used chemical weapons...

Embrace gun laws to stand ground against violent racism

(Orlando Sentinel) George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford has sparked national debate on several issues, from racial violence and race relations to the “stand your ground” self-defense law and gun control. The killing of Jordan Davis, an innocent and...

A new form of Jim Crow arises from Roberts Court

Guest Commentary Yohuru Williams (Orlando Sentinel) In light of its recent decisions in critical cases involving voting rights and affirmative action, it appears that the U.S. Supreme Court is waging legal warfare on America’s well-settled civil-rights landscape. In...

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