The Social Media, Nikolas Cruz and The Code of Terror
By DONALD JONES Like a recurring nightmare we have witnessed, now at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the spectacle of yet another mass …
The Trump effect
By DONALD JONES At Fenway Park when a young Kenyan woman sung the national anthem a middle aged white man remarked that she had “ni***d …
Sumner Mississippi comes to Charleston: the case of Walter Scott
By DON JONES The deadly confrontation between Walter Lamar Scott, a black forklift operator, and Charleston police officer Michael Slager began as a daytime traffic …
High Court, except Thomas, sees injustice in conviction of Foster
photo courtesy of theshadowleague.com On August 28, 1986, in the foothills of Alabama, in a town called Rome Georgia police found Queen Madge White dead …
Why we are losing the war against racism on campus
On President Obama’s inauguration day back in 2009, Fox news proclaimed, “America has transcended race.” For a generation born in the 1990’s who had grown …
Sandra Bland’s death is a wake up call
Sandra Bland still smiles from her Facebook page. Her family says the 28 year old was full of hope. But on July 9 officer Brian …
The ghost of Dred Scott still haunts
Slavery was America’s original sin. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” In fact in the original draft …
Can black men ever be victims?
In Richard Wright’s Native Son, Bigger Thomas kills a white woman and is later captured by a mob. As they drag him through the snow …
Callous disregard for the life of a man
“Good gracious! Anybody hurt? No’ ma’am, killed a nigger Well its lucky, cause sometimes people do get hurt” Quote from Aunt Sally and Huck Finn …
“Soldier’s Son” fought for Civil Rights
In his Letter from the Birmingham Jail Dr. King wrote, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it …