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J. Pharoah Doss

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J. Pharoah Doss: The generation after Robert L. Woodson Sr.

  by J. Pharoah Doss On May 20th, 2026, a New York Times headline announced the death of Robert L. Woodson Sr., leader of the Black...

J. Pharoah Doss: Solving the ‘clearance rate crisis’ is a fool’s errand?

  by J. Pharoah Doss Decade after decade progressives and conservatives argued over whether systemic factors or cultural dysfunctions were more detrimental to Black communities. The...

J. Pharoah Doss: What, to the modern-day slave, is the Fourth of July?

  by J. Pharoah Doss Over the last decade, just before Independence Day, Black intellectuals wrote opinion pieces about Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the...

J. Pharoah Doss: Black mother’s greatest fear—the conviction rate or the clearance rate crisis?

  by J. Pharoah Doss In 2025, Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old Black high school student, stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, a White 17-year-old high school student,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Would Black jurors have changed the outcome for Karmelo Anthony?

  by J. Pharoah Doss In 2025, Karmelo Anthony, 17, fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf, also 17, at a Texas high school track meet. The teenagers attended...

J. Pharoah Doss: Rick Chow fired one shot but so did the prosecution

  by J. Pharoah Doss Recently, a South Carolina jury found Rick Chow, a 61-year-old Asian store owner, not guilty of the murder of Cyrus Carmack-Belton,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Smear tactics aside—KKK describes GOP or Dems?

  by J. Pharoah Doss Last month, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht announced that he was leaving the Democratic Party because of its “acquiescence to...

J. Pharoah Doss: Feeding Black kids blue lies over historical facts?

  by J. Pharoah Doss On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais. The state’s new congressional map, which created two majority-Black districts,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Jim Crow 2.0 or Fearmongering 2.0

  by J. Pharoah Doss If the term “fearmongering” means “deliberately arousing public fear about a particular issue,” then “fearmongering 2.0” is “deliberately arousing public fear...

J. Pharoah Doss: SCOTUS Voting Rights Act decisions: Are we going back? 

  by J. Pharoah Doss The U.S. Supreme Court's recent 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais struck down the state's latest redrawn congressional map, which produced...

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