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J. Pharoah Doss: Politically motivated violence and the lack of honesty

This year, Minnesota Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered at their house, while prominent conservative spokesperson Charlie Kirk was shot...

J. Pharoah Doss: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.: What is justice?

We are all familiar with that pivotal moment when Pilate asked Christ the most fundamental question for enlightened people: what is truth? But the...

J. Pharoah Doss: Looking for a lynching while ignoring high rates of Black suicide

September 15—Campus personnel found the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi, hanging from a tree. Following...

J. Pharoah Doss: National divorce and dangerous illusions of division

Following the assassination of Turning Point USA’s conservative founder, Charlie Kirk, Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between conservatives and...

J. Pharoah Doss: Charlie Kirk…No country for young men who “corrupt the youth”

Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, an organization that promotes conservative politics in high schools and colleges, was fatally shot during...

J. Pharoah Doss: From Cleveland to Chicago to Trump to ‘violence to the constitution’

When John F. Kennedy became president, he preferred an inner circle of thinkers above partisans. Kennedy then appointed Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

J. Pharoah Doss: Black conservatism fails to meet the needs of the working class? 

Amanda Seales, an actor, comedian, and self-described Black radical, recently took part in a Jubilee Surrounded debate. Surrounded is a web series produced by...

J. Pharoah Doss: Are Black Americans raising kids who don’t understand blackness?

Lawarence Ware, a philosophy professor at Oklahoma State University and co-director of the Center for Africana Studies, wrote an opinion piece for The...

J. Pharoah Doss: Kamala Harris, the governor’s office, and the elephant in the dark

Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, wrote a classic fable called The Elephant in the Dark. One evening, Hindus transporting an elephant stopped in...

J. Pharoah Doss: Does polite society prefer pepper spray for noncompliance with police?

On February 19, 2025, police stopped William McNeil Jr., a 22-year-old college student, for "not having the headlights on during inclement weather" in Jacksonville,...

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