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J. Pharoah Doss

J. Pharoah Doss: Rep. Jamaal Bowman faced the firing squad

Politics is the art of compromise. Activists, on the other hand, are uncompromising. What happens when an activist wins a seat in Congress but...

J. Pharoah Doss: Disturbing Black generational divide on the demise of Affirmative Action?

 The 1996 presidential election was expected to be a landslide victory for incumbent President Clinton due to the strength of the economy. Affirmative Action...

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

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

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?

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

 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

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

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

J. Pharoah Doss: The inglorious bastard boom on campus

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

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...
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