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J. Pharoah Doss: Are reparations supposed to right historical wrongs?

J. Pharoah Doss - June 23, 2024

Since Rep. John Conyers introduced H.R. 40, a bill to investigate and redress the impact of slavery on Black Americans, in 1989, the term...

J. Pharoah Doss: The Ayatollah adopts American students

J. Pharoah Doss - June 16, 2024

Close allies: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the man who was expected to succeed him, President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in...

J. Pharoah Doss: Only gifted students can correctly answer…How do you equalize a forest?

J. Pharoah Doss - June 9, 2024

Adobe Stock Photo In the first half of the 20th century, educators assigned children who performed above grade level to higher grades. By the 1950s,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Misusing MLK moral authority

J. Pharoah Doss - June 2, 2024

Over the last decade, numerous riots have erupted in response to fatal encounters between unarmed Black individuals and police officers. Martin Luther King Jr....

J. Pharoah Doss: Bad hair days and avoiding appearances

J. Pharoah Doss - May 27, 2024

Vanessa Sefa, a Black teacher in the United Kingdom, shared a story on social media in 2021 to highlight the need for more Black...

J. Pharoah Doss: There’s lies, darn lies, and crime statistics

J. Pharoah Doss - May 19, 2024

In April 2015, a Black man died in the back of a police vehicle in Baltimore, sparking weeks of protests and rioting. Black Lives...

Dr. Donald Suggs: Wake up, Black voters. Don’t let Trump’s lies fool you

Site Editor - May 12, 2024

by Dr. Donald Suggs ST. LOUIS AMERICAN—The fact that exit polls showed that Donald Trump received 9 percent of the Black vote in 2016, the...

J. Pharoah Doss: The inglorious bastard boom on campus

J. Pharoah Doss - May 11, 2024

The baby boom was between World War II and the 1960s. When baby boomers reached adulthood, their elders criticized them for being self-centered and...

J. Pharoah Doss: When the Black left treats you like an n-word in the street

J. Pharoah Doss - May 2, 2024

STEPHEN A. SMITH In 2002, the Arkansas Hall of Fame inducted former Democratic President Bill Clinton as an honorary member. The hall acknowledged Clinton as...

J. Pharoah Doss: Cornel West and “lies that hide”

J. Pharoah Doss - April 26, 2024

CORNEL WEST AND MELINA ABDULLAH (CornelWest.com Photo) Independent presidential candidate Cornel West chose fellow academic Melina Abdullah as his running mate. Abdullah teaches pan-African studies...

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