It’s just who they are. — The never-ending war waged by right-wing, mainly white male “conservatives,” against women’s psycho-physical autonomy is once again being considered by The Supremes. And, almost in tandem, Nebraska’s state legislature has, at last, and quite consciously and quite deliberately, let the proverbial cat out of the proverbial bag. Last week, Republican…

She Wouldn’t Even Say George Floyd’s Name — Killer-cop Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 270 months, or twenty-two and one-half years, in prison for the murder of George Floyd. However, all experts agree that with “good behavior,” he will likely spend no more than fifteen years behind bars. Today’s (June 25) sentencing hearing opened with “victim impact statements”…

In 1976, after finally winning his first Grammy for “Best Album,” folk songster Paul Simon gave one of the most astounding acceptance speeches of all time. After thanking his fans, his producers, fellow musicians and singers, musical engineers… and even his parents, he then said: “But most of all I…

The First One was the 400-Year-Long War and Not Quite Total Extermination of Native Americans — Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. They do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing, already given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And…

Why He is Running — The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates Long-time public philosopher, public intellectual, social, cultural, economic, and American political gadfly, Dr. Cornel West is running for president. Throughout his long academic and “activist” career, Dr. West has professed from the trifecta of America’s most prestigious Ivy League institutions of…

If Trump can do it, why can’t they? — Daniel Goodwyn of Texas is the latest domestic terrorist to plead guilty to partaking in the January 6, 2021 failed coup d’etat against the US government. As if to prove to the world that his mea culpa was disingenuous and force-fed down his throat, he immediately showed up on Tucker…

Is it “safe” to be black in Florida? — America’s oldest and largest civil and human rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is warning black people everywhere against traveling to Florida. This “advisory” is also inclusive of all other “minorities” because Florida is “actively hostile” in its “conservative” government’s putsch to eliminate altogether…

But he swears on a stack of Bibles he’ll do it if they stick with him — On January 20, 2021, President Donald Trump pardoned 74 people and commuted the prison sentences of 70 others. These pardons and commutations came a full two weeks after Trump and company directed and then leisurely but gleefully watched on television as thousands of his most rabidly loyal followers rampaged through…

… Or, Chasing, Catching & Punishing Yet Another Runaway Slave — while online fund raises over $1 million for slave-catching, slave-killing “hero” — “For her new documentary, Lynching Postcards: Tokens of a Great Day, filmmaker Christine Turner examined hundreds of black-and-white photographs that show how organized these events were and included chilling messages that shared the experience with those who weren’t there. …