September 19, 2017 Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects | Black Perspectives Policymakers assumed that if men were in the home, poor women on welfare would inevitably have more children and cost taxpayers more money. So by 1959, women headed the majority of households in Pruitt-Igoe. African American Families, African American Lives, African American News, African American Politics, Economics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
September 11, 2017 The First White President | The Atlantic The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. African American News, African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Politics, President Obama
August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 Let’s Try This Again: Yvette Simpson Runs for Mayor of Cincinnati; Will Black Voters Rally? | The Root Cincinnati has never had a woman directly elected mayor. This city has never had an African-American woman elected mayor. This city has never had a black woman with even a chance of getting elected mayor. African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Politics
August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Were Black Progressives Wrong to Not Support Clinton, Opening the Door for Trump’s Victory? | Atlanta Black Star “I would rather have Trump be president for four years and build a real left-wing movement that can get us what we deserve as a people, than to let Hillary be president and we stay locked in the same space where we don’t get what we want.” - Marc Lamont Hill African American News, African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 A C-SPAN caller confessed his racism to a black guest. A year later, he called back to say how he’d changed. | The Washington Post A year ago this week, a white man named Garry from North Carolina called C-SPAN to talk to a black guest about his racial prejudices. African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Politics
August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 Forget Bernie Bros: Meet the Young People of Color Leading the Country’s Socialist Revolution | Splinter But erasing people of color from the narrative is deeply ahistoric at best and intellectually dishonest at worst. African American News, African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Politics
August 11, 2017August 17, 2017 After Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis | Slate In 2008, Barack Obama squeaked out an unexpected win in Indiana thanks in part to his huge margin of victory in Marion County, which has a large population of black Democrats. African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, Voter Suppression
July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 Michelle Obama Says Racist Attacks She Faced as First Lady ‘Cut the Deepest’ | The Root Former first lady Michelle Obama was a breath of fresh air Tuesday at a live armchair conversation with the Women’s Foundation of Colorado President Lauren Casteel in Denver. Poised and graceful as always, Obama still touched on some tough topics and spoke out frankly about the hurt she felt from the racist attacks she received while in the White House. African American Families, African American History, African American Politics, African American Women, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 26, 2017July 26, 2017 A Bold Sista: Move Over, Bernie Bros. Nina Turner Is the New Head of Sanders’ Our Revolution | The Root Nina Turner is not hard to describe. She’s that other black woman on MSNBC and CNN talking about workers rights, fighting back and pushing for a progressive agenda, even during President Barack Obama’s administration. African American News, African American Politics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 4, 2017 Director Damani Baker Tells the Story of Grenada and Black Migration Through His Mother’s Eyes – The Muse The year was 1983. Fannie Haughton—a name unfamiliar to most—was living in Oakland, California, under a poisonous Reagan regime, in the middle of a drug war. African American History, African American News, African American Politics, African History, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine, US Military
