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J. Pharoah Doss

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J. Pharoah Doss: Lindsay Clancy and Latarsha Sanders: similar isn’t the same

Similar (adjective): Looking or being almost, but not exactly, the same —Cambridge Dictionary *** By now, everyone has heard of the Lindsay Clancy multiple murder case, which...

J. Pharoah Doss: Are we now in ‘post-literate’ America?

Are we now in ‘post-literate’ America? The Atlantic’s August cover story was “The End of Reading Is Here,” authored by Rose Horowitch.  She pointed out that...

J. Pharoah Doss: Lindsay Clancy and the burden of sanity

Lindsay Clancy, 35, strangled her three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, after sending her husband out to buy items for their infant...

J. Pharoah Doss: The race realist, the plagiarist, and the irreversible damage

This tragedy begins with two scholars, one White and the other Black, hired a year apart at the University of Cambridge in England. The White...

J. Pharoah Doss: We need to talk about Tasia Fortune

by J. Pharoah Doss On August 3, Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black mother of four, was found hanging from a tree in the backyard of...

J. Pharoah Doss: El-Sayed: For the working class, regardless of the facts

by J. Pharoah Doss Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary over U.S. Representative Haley Stevens. This contest was a major battle between...

J. Pharoah Doss: Trey Reed, exposing Ben Crump, and failed suicide attempts

by J. Pharoah Doss Last year, I wrote a piece called “Looking for a lynching while ignoring high rates of Black suicide.” It was about...

J. Pharoah Doss: Nolan Wells and the Emmett Till comparisons

  by J. Pharoah Doss Between 2012 and 2015, if you asked high school students, “Who was Emmett Till?” They would tell you that he was...

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...

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