Move these projects forward and get Americans back to work By Bette Grande With more than 40 million Americans out of a job due to the coronavirus pandemic, states are scrambling to help the unemployed and laying plans to reopen the economy. Many of the proposed measures could take time to bring relief. In at […]
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Five Minutes Before the Klan Shows Up
By Dr. Kaye Whitehead As someone who grew up in Jim Crow South Carolina, my father likes to call himself a survivor. He looked White supremacy and racial hatred in the eye, and though he has not won, he wants to note that he has not lost, not yet. When I was in college, I […]
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Editorial Commentary: Search For Strength During Struggle
By Ariel Chrysann AFRO Intern Jac Ross is a timeless talent with a raw voice and a warm heart. He created wonderful songs like “It’s Ok to be Black,” “Saved” and “Questions.” Though these songs are great to listen to, they come from a place that has felt the stings of struggle and uncertainty. He […]
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OP-ED: Moving Forward with Police Reform
By Leonard Hamm, Richard Hite Jr., Wendell France, Henry Martin and Barry W. Powell Police departments across the country are caught up in the public outcry for police reform. Demonstrations have taken place in major cities, not only in the United States but also in other countries such as Canada and Germany as a result […]
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OP-ED: Eradicate Systemic Racism Together
By Robert F. Smith These past four months, and particularly the past few weeks, have been among the hardest we’ve experienced as a nation. These issues matter to all of us. Naturally, they’re personal to me – and I know they’re a priority for you. We must end systemic racism and lift our nation and […]
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Letter To The Editor: RETIRE THE REDSKINS”
By Jake Pickering The Washington Redskins National Football League franchise is a disgrace! In the year 2020, Washington team owner Daniel Snyder cannot possibly continue to rationalize keeping his ridiculously racist team name in the face of widespread, righteous public condemnation of Snyder’s racist recalcitrance. Our nation’s capitol’s team name “The Redskins” will be retired […]
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COMMENTARY: The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People
By Jerome Love, Special to the Houston Forward Times via BPUSA For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, […]
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National Wax Museum Marks 25 Years for Its Lynching Exhibit
By Dr. Joanne M. Martin It took a camera phone and shocked eye-witnesses to the in-plain-sight death of George Floyd to bring mass attention to the killing of countless numbers of mainly Black men in America by the police. It took ten minutes and nine seconds on her iphone for 17-year-old Darnella Frazier to seer […]
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White Hands, Blue Uniforms, Black Death
By Reginald Williams The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a state-sanctioned punishment imposed upon a person arrested, charged, tried and convicted of a crime deemed so serious that death is considered the appropriate sentence. A death row inmate waits, on average, 15 years from the day they are sentenced till the day […]
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Editorial Commentary: The Chi’s’ Yolonda Ross Talks Art, Creativity
By Jessica Dortch AFRO Production Editor jdortch@afro.com If you are a fan of one of Showtime’s top series, “The Chi,” then you are no stranger to Yolonda Ross who plays Jada Washington on the show. Watching her in her acting element, you might not know that Ross is also a quadruple threat as an actress, […]
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Commentary/Opinion: Atlas Must Go/ #CancelAtlas
By Sen. Jill P. Carter As a child, I awoke some mornings to news that police had arrested my father, Walter P. Carter, for sitting in protest in restaurants and apartment buildings that refused to serve and house Black people. Even after the passage of laws ending legal segregation, a fair number of private, white-owned […]
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Letter To The Editor: Conservative Black Sheriffs Are Dangerous To Race
Dear Afro Editor, Another Black sheriff has been exposed as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The latest is Clay County, Florida Sheriff Darryl Daniels. Like the mind Daniels, Clay County’s population is 75 percent White. Sheriff Daniels warned Black Lives Matter protesters to stay out of Clay County. In a recent video, Daniels warned protesters […]