December 23rd, 2024
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 (AP pic under a CC BY 4.0 license). In 2023, a fatal encounter occurred aboard a New York subway train when Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old White marine veteran, used a chokehold … Continued
December 22nd, 2024
Racism by Design: How Algorithms Shaped the 2024 Election and Endangered Democracy
Photo Credit: Getty Images By James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D. In the grand architecture of America, where freedom and democracy are enshrined as sacred principles, a dark shadow has emerged—an algorithmic code of oppression, insidiously weaving its way into the fabric of our digital society. As the dust settles on the 2024 election, the evidence is … Continued
December 18th, 2024
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 Regiment, one of the first all-Black regiments in the Union Army. The actor who played Robert Gould Shaw, the White colonel in command, narrated the film. Glory depicted the regiment’s … Continued
December 3rd, 2024
J. Pharoah Doss:  Does Biden’s Native American boarding school apology make a difference?
First- and second-grade students sit in a classroom at the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in Genoa, Neb. Researchers are now trying to locate the bodies of more than 80 Native American children buried near the school. National Archives/AP Few US presidents have formally apologized to Americans for the “sins” of previous administrations. In 1976, President … Continued
December 2nd, 2024
Why Trump’s HUD Pick Is a Red Flag for Housing Advocates
Photo Credit: Metro Centric – Queensbridge Houses, CC BY 2.0 By Jennifer Porter Gore This article was originally published on Word In Black. Over the weekend, President-elect Trump announced his nomination of Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Turner, a former NFL player and Texas legislator, would be the first … Continued
Bishop William J. Barber II Shares His Thoughts About What He'd Like to See at The 2024 DNC
