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J. Pharoah Doss: Achievement test and junk excuses for failure

Getty Images  The difference between achievement tests and aptitude tests is that achievement tests measure what students have learned, whereas aptitude tests evaluate their potential...

J. Pharoah Doss: Cherry-picking James Baldwin on his centennial

The prolific black writer James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, and would have turned 100 at the beginning of this month. Numerous...

J. Pharoah Doss: Kamala Harris, Black identity, and Republican defectors

When California’s Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris was elected to the US Senate in 2016, an Associated Press headline boasted: California’s Kamala Harris becomes...

J. Pharoah Doss: Anti-war protest, negative peace, and existential threats

Palestinian and Israeli flags fly in old Jerusalem. iStock / Getty Images Plus When World War II broke out in Europe in 1939, the United States...

J. Pharoah Doss: Harris’ presidential nomination…From the grassroots up, not top down?

Vice President Kamala Harris with supporters in Jacksonville, Fla., May 1, 2024. AP Photo/John Raoux/File  On July 21, President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential...

J. Pharoah Doss: Swearing to tell the “post-truth”

In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary's international word of the year was "post-truth." The term prioritizes what psychologists refer to as "emotional truths"—what one "feels"...

J. Pharoah Doss: Reasons for running mates…Biden, Kaine and Harris

After President Barack Obama’s two terms, the next Democratic nominee for president wasn’t Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, but his secretary of state, Hillary...

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...
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