The 1619 Project
byThe August 18th issue of the New York Times Magazine dedicates itself to slavery with The 1619 Project, featuring profound, investigative reporting style articles…
Black America
Mood N’DIGO – Putting Our Paper To Bed
byOne day Julieanna Richardson, who created the HistoryMakers, called me and asked what was I doing with my almost 30 years worth of N’DIGO…
America Is In A Dangerous Place
byFirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the…
Democrats Dilemma
byBlues legend Bobby Bland often played a tune called Keep it a Secret. It has to do with a married man and his outside…
Reparations
byAfricans were stolen from African shores to arrive in America in 1619. For hundred years later we still fight for citizenship rights. In the…
Why Juneteenth? – By Delmarie Cobb
byEvery so often I go looking through my files for an old article to see if it’s still relevant. The following column appeared in…
Manhandling
byIt is unbelievable that old white southern men are passing restrictive legislation on abortion. Why, you’d think? The white population is shrinking. Women are…
Talking Legal Weed With Rep. Sonya Harper
byTo legalize or not to legalize marijuana is the question for the state legislators in Illinois. Governor JB Pritzker is ready to sign Senate…
Zora & Langston
byZora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal By Yuval Taylor Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (March 26, 2019) Hardcover: 304 pages,…
Mikki, The Photographer
byThis is graduation time and I want to tell you about my friend Michelle “Mikki” Agins, who is being honored with a Doctorate of…
We Should Stop Saying “People of Color” When We Mean “Black People” – By Joshua Adams
byI understand why people in society use the term “people of color”: it replaces the outdated term “colored people” with one that is more…
What Would John Johnson Do Today?
byThe iconic Johnson Publishing Company, home to Ebony and Jet magazines, the Ebony Fashion Fair and Fashion Fair Cosmetics, filed for bankruptcy last week,…