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J. Pharoah Doss

J. Pharoah Doss: Trump revoked LBJ’s Equal Employment Opportunity Act?

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on, July 2, 1964. Photo: Cecil...

J. Pharoah Doss: The dangerous spending of insurrection currency

Republican President Donald Trump did not win reelection in 2020. Trump claimed the Democrats stole the election, but his legal appeals to reverse the...

J. Pharoah Doss: The new breed of MLK detractors, Part 2

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. became a global hero after his assassination in 1968, and President Ronald Reagan cemented his legacy...

J. Pharoah Doss: The new breed of MLK detractors, Part 1

Throughout his life, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had more detractors than allies. MLK became a global hero after his assassination...

J. Pharoah Doss: Confusing DEI with actual diversity

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was established in 1965 to eliminate job discrimination.  Guaranteeing equal opportunity for historically discriminated-against groups became the nation’s top...

J. Pharoah Doss: Republicans don’t think culture is a problem all of a sudden

In 2004, the NAACP invited Bill Cosby to speak on the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board school desegregation decision. Cosby...

J. Pharoah Doss: Biden’s lame duck death penalty one-upmanship

Getty Images Stock Photo Lame duck: an elected official continuing to hold political office during the period between the election and the inauguration of a...

J. Pharoah Doss: The Supreme Court, gender-affirming care, and weighing the risk

Anti-trans legislation adjudicates the bodily autonomy of those who do not conform to gender norms. Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Three transgender teenagers and their families have challenged...

J. Pharoah Doss: Did Good Samaritans deadlock the Danial Penny Jury?

Daniel Penny was arraigned on May 12 on a charge of second-degree manslaughter of Jordan Neely. Penny was acquitted of the crime this month...

J. Pharoah Doss: Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus

In 1989, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Andre Braugher starred in the American Civil War film Glory. The movie was about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry...
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