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J. Pharoah Doss: With an intelligentsia like this who needs idiots?

Several Black political commentators consider themselves the "talented tenth." W.E.B. Dubois coined the term "talented tenth" at the turn of the twentieth century. Between 1865...

J. Pharoah Doss: No Great Surprise Harris Lost

Two days before the 2024 presidential election, an ABC/Ipsos survey found Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Republican challenger and...

J. Pharoah Doss: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Poor American Parallels

The Message, a new book by award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates, includes a contentious essay about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Coates concluded that the dispute isn’t...

J. Pharoah Doss: The Audacity of Accepting Trump’s Challenge

In 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump asked Black Americans a simple question: "What do you have to lose?" Trump initially posed the question during...

J. Pharoah Doss: The Breakfast Club’s Legal Illiteracy

US REPRESENTATIVE BYRON DONALDS  Recently, Republican US Representative Byron Donalds was on the Breakfast Club radio show along with former CNN political commentator Angela Rye....

J. Pharoah Doss: Westboro picketers, vigil for Gaza, and a license to kill

Pro-Palestinian protesters. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/The Conversation During the aughts, the Westboro Baptist Church gained national attention for picketing funeral services for American...

J. Pharoah Doss: Abortions, executions and crusaders against murder

MARCELLUS WILLIAMS Charlie Kirk, a co-founder of Turning Point USA, a non-profit organization that promotes conservatism among high school and college students, recently debated a...

J. Pharoah Doss: A battle lost in the global civil rights struggle of the 21st century

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, center, stands with four of the five young women she invited to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Books can’t compete with the screen?

Getty Images Stock Photo Novelist Philip Roth told an interviewer: The book can’t compete with the screen. It couldn’t compete—beginning—with the movie screen. It couldn’t...

J. Pharoah Doss: Hold the Harris horses

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TOLD SUPPORTERS IN PITTSBURGH THAT VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT WILL BE THE BEST DECISION ONE COULD MAKE. (PHOTO BY...

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