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J. Pharoah Doss: The Tennessee 2…Realistic radicals or beautiful troublemakers?

Activists and legislators have different functions, but what happens when an activist becomes a legislator and continues functioning as an activist? Headlines like this appear:...

J. Pharoah Doss: ‘The View,’ double standards, and concentration camp denial

Last year, ABC suspended Whoopi Goldberg from hosting The View after Goldberg insisted the Holocaust wasn’t about race. Goldberg’s television co-hosts told her that...

J. Pharoah Doss: Uganda’s anti-gay law: when human rights and traditional values clash

Uganda decided in February to close the UN human rights office that was in their country. This office was set up in 2006 to...

J. Pharoah Doss: Woke, equity, and anti-concepts

Getty Images Recently, HBO talk show host Bill Maher was interviewed by CNN. Maher expressed that wokeness, regardless of how it’s defined, is a collection...

J. Pharoah Doss: Has African American Studies strayed off course?

Getty Images Last year, Kanye West was embroiled in controversy over statements deemed antisemitic. Then he was written off as another anti-intellectual celebrity. Still and...

J. Pharoah Doss: AP African American Studies—Can Florida be wrong but not wrong?

Getty Images In 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that said federal contractors couldn’t use Critical Race Theory in racial sensitivity training. Most Americans...

J. Pharoah Doss: Lowered police standards, diversity, and shortages

Getty Images by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier  In 2015, Seattle University had a panel discussion about race and policing. The panel featured conservative...

J. Pharoah Doss: Diversity is essential in lowering police violence?

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier By now, the name Tyre Nichols is synonymous with police brutality. Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was accused...

J. Pharoah Doss: ‘Cop City’— martyr or cautionary tale?

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In September of 2021, the Atlanta City Council leased forested land to the Atlanta Police Foundation to...

J. Pharoah Doss: Scrutinizing football’s violence often adds insult to injury

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Recently, professor Tracie Canada wrote an article in Scientific American called: Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence...

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