In an interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the couple told the Queen of television Oprah Winfrey that they endured severe racial turmoil that almost drove Markle to take her own life. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO It initially seemed silly to spend […]
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Don’t watch the steal of real democracy; resist
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO Thirty-three states have Republicans proposing laws to restrict voting. The proposals are intended to pacify the one-term, twice-impeached former U.S. president. It is a direct assault on […]
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‘Become foreign service leaders,’ VP Harris urged HBCU students
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday told HBCU students that America’s foreign service needs their passion and their intellect. “I know you learned about the African diaspora, WEB […]
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Commentary: Republicans flipped ‘Whigs’ and better soon get acts together
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO The GOP is having a nervous and mental breakdown. It has censured Republican members who had the morality and courage to point out the obvious, that the […]
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Commentary: Deranged to try excusing Trump crime everyone witnessed
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins, Special to the AFRO On Feb. 9 at former President Trump’s impeachment trial, House co-manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, promised he would not lecture U.S. Senate jurors about the commander in chief’s […]
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Op-ed: A.C. Powell’s treatment is cure for ‘loony conspiracy theorist’
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, has been all over the news because of her bomb-throwing conspiracy theories. If you somehow missed them, Greene says teenagers were […]
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A digital reminder that Capitol siege was an echo of Civil War
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO The nations’ Capitol was attacked and trashed by insurrectionists on Jan. 6. White supremacists and Confederates in the attic are still among us. Beliefs they have suppressed […]
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Op-ed: Time for healing, optimism, tempered with justice
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO It is a new extraordinary era. Joe Biden, the two-term vice president who served with President Obama during 2009-2017, is to be sworn in as the 46th […]
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Op-ed: Black Lives Matter; nuance matters too
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO A radio panelist and I were unintentionally amused last week by a caller’s scold. “Why are you being nuanced?” asked the caller during “Another View” on NPR […]
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Warnock, Ossoff, voters, democracy all win in Ga.
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO Raphael Warnock, winner of the Jan. 5 special U.S. Senate election in Georgia, overcame nakedly racist and undemocratic attempts to steal votes from a rainbow coalition of […]
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Commentary: Georgians must rise up again
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, and a professor of professional practice at Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO In a few days, Jan. 5, Georgians will choose both of their U.S. Senators to serve them from Washington. This is a special election. Because the top […]
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Attempted smear of Jill Biden, Black educators backfires
Wayne Dawkins is a writer, author and professor at Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism. (Courtesy photo) By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO On Dec. 12, the Wall Street Journal published the commentary by Joseph Epstein, “Is there a doctor in the White House? Not if you need an M.D.” Epstein, a former […]