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J. Pharoah Doss: Prioritizing history is hard—a tough experiment

Vintage portrait features the first African-American Senators and Representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States, 1869-1873. Getty Images Stock Illustration History...

J. Pharoah Doss: LeBron’s school didn’t promise miracles  

In this July 30, 2018, file photo, LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Phil...

J. Pharoah Doss: The opposite of Stockholm syndrome 

Vintage illustration represents the emancipation of Southern slaves at the end of the American Civil War. This image contrasts the life of a slave...

J. Pharoah Doss: Don’t say African American History Standards 

Vintage illustration features portraits of African-American heroes, including Blanche Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Rhoades Revels, surrounded by scenes of African-American life in...

J. Pharoah Doss: Affirmative Action, statute of limitations, and historical burdens

Getty Images In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld Affirmative Action in college admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger. The Court ruled 5-4 that admission processes that...

J. Pharoah Doss: Did ‘positive discrimination’ kill Affirmative Action?

Political theorists make distinctions between negative and positive rights. A negative right is when a person can freely do something without interference from the...

J. Pharoah Doss: California reparations…remission or restitution?

Over the last decade, Americans have debated the necessity of a racial reckoning. This impulse led to puzzling attempts to make amends for the...

J. Pharoah Doss: Obama bum-rushed Tim Scott over racism, but what signal did that send?

During the 2000 Democratic primary, Illinois state senator Barack Obama challenged Congressman Bobby Rush. Rush was a former Black Panther who transitioned into a...

J. Pharoah Doss: BLM was always bankrupt regardless of its finances

According to reports, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is on the verge of bankruptcy. According to other accounts, Black Lives Matter has...

J. Pharoah Doss: Jim Crow déjà vu or ‘am I oppressed?’

Thurgood Marshall spoke to many NAACP youth groups before the United States Supreme Court overturned segregation in 1954. Marshall, an NAACP lawyer, asked the...

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