Voices from the Battlefield: BC Roundtable July 1, 2026
David Love and Bill Fletcher, Jr. join Jamala Rogers as they discuss SCOTUS rulings, the Iranian-US war, the hypocrisy of July 4, and the shakeup within the Democratic Party.
David A. Love
Professor, Journalist and Commentator
Let's Choose the Fight for Global Reparations Rather Than the Diaspora Wars
The African diaspora wars are real, and in the end, the disunity is exacting a toll on Black people across the globe. The diaspora wars are cross-cultural conflicts based on disinformation, miseducation and misunderstanding, and they center proximity to whiteness and cause Africans and African descendants to compete over which colonizer is the best. These divisions come at a time when we can least afford them, and the only beneficiary of this distrust and disunity is white supremacy. It is far b...
Making Media a Healing Force - RJI Youth Summit
Decision Makers: Professor David Love Calls It "Dummymandering"
Rutgers University Professor in Journalism and Media Studies David Love says that the latest salvo at the Voting Rights Act could backfire on Republicans in terms of growing public backlash, potential boycotts and a sloppy look at Congressional district maps that he calls "Dummymandering." How well, really, was this thought out? And is public awareness around the critical Voting Rights Act growing?
The GOP Is Working Hard to Diminish Black Voting Power
American history is rife with examples of Black people making gains, making progress and gaining power, and white conservatives snatching it from them to maintain white supremacy. Today, the GOP under Trump is working in earnest to diminish Black voting power on the federal, state and local level, and erase Blackness from political, civic and ec…
American history is rife with examples of Black people making gains, making progress and gaining power, and white conservatives snatching it from them...
American history is rife with examples of Black people making gains, making progress and gaining power, and white conservatives snatching it from them...
Amanda Wallace Once Worked for Child Protective Services. Now She Wants to Abolish It.
Protesting against injustices done to Black people often means not speaking in polite language or striving for respectability. Like those who used ”fighting words” to push for the abolition of slavery—an institution that subjugated Black people and separated families—today’s modern-day abolitionists use rhetoric and actions to galvanize people and provide moral clarity against present-day forms of oppression.In Durham, N.C., Amanda Wallace is fighting the child welfare system, which abolitionist...
Voices from the Battlefield: BlackCommentator Roundtable Feb 4, 2026
Contributors to BlackCommentator.com discuss the state of Black history, culture, and institutions under the MAGA regime. They also tackle the contradictions of the Democratic Party that calls for reflection and action by the community.
BC Roundtable Voices from the Battlefield Jan 7 2026
This is the kickoff of the BC Roundtable, where contributors to BlackCommentators.com will discuss the important issues of the day. This discussion brings Bill Fletcher, Rev. Irene Monroe, and David Love together to talk about the U.S. invasion of Venezuela and the negative impacts of MAGA policy issues and actions on the Black community. The BC Roundtable will air on the first Wednesday of every month.
RJI Podcast - Meeting DEC 2025
Meeting of the Global Advisory Council of RJI in December 2025
We’re Not Going Back to the Way Things Were. Black America Needs a Vision for the Future
Speaking at Howard University’s Opening Convocation on Sept. 19, Sherrilyn Ifill, the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, implored new students to remake democracy and give birth to a new America. “We can choose to focus on the passing away of the world we have known, or we can get to work on the new world that will come quickly in its wake,” said Ifill, also the founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy. “Our faith and our b...
Capitulating to Trump Will Not Save You. History Has Taught Us How to Fight Back
Despite all the evidence around us, people haven’t learned that bowing down to the American dictator named Trump will not protect them. In the latest example, the tech giant Google is paying Trump $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed after the digital platform suspended him following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. It is reported that $22 million will go towards the construction of a new White House ballroom. No one plans that much home renovation unless they plan on sticking ar...
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age. By Rob Eschmann. University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 312. $95.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 3
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2025 08 27 - RECIP - Atoning for Gaza
"Get Back To Work" Is The Clarion Call Of White Nationalism
Black Migrants Brace for Intensified ICE Raids and Mass Deportations Under Trump
When the Trump administration announced it was terminating the temporary protective status of the more than 500,000 Haitian migrants as early as Sept. 2, it was a reminder that ICE raids have everything to do with Black people, both migrants and citizens. While a federal judge blocked Trump’s order—which would have prematurel…
When the Trump administration announced it was terminating the temporary protective status of the more than 500,000 Haitian migrants as early as Sept. 2, it was a reminde...
When the Trump administration announced it was terminating the temporary protective status of the more than 500,000 Haitian migrants as early as Sept. 2, it was a reminde...
How the Growth of AI is Endangering the Health of Black People
A battle is brewing across the country involving AI technology, the environment and the health and well-being of Black people. As demand for AI technology grows, tech companies are building large data centers to power and operate their AI products. And these data centers — powered primarily by fossil fuels that pollute the environment with toxic chemicals — are being built disproportionately in Black neighborhoods with long histories of health problems stemming from environmental racism.
5 Years After George Floyd: Will We Ever Get True Police Reform?
Trump is making good on his promise to sic the police on Black America and allow the paddy rollers to run roughshod over us. Trump’s recent executive order on law enforcement brings clarity to policing’s role in a white supremacist fascist regime. Long story short: Trump will allow police to brutalize us with no accountability, provide legal pro bono representation to cops who brutalize, prosecute state and local officials who pursue DEI policies in law enforcement, and unleash the military in t...
How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress
As Trump’s MAGA administration proceeds with the mass firing of thousands of government workers — a federal appeals court recently paved the way for Trump to fire roughly 25,000 probationary employees — what is missing from the discussion is that this war on the government is a war on Black progress. After all, government jobs built the Black middle class.The federal government is the nation’s largest employer, with around three million workers. Black people are nearly 14% of the U.S. population...
Trump Is Already Trying to Undermine the 2026 Elections
Trump is signing these executive orders as fast as the Christofascists at Project 2025 can draft them in White Jesus’ name. And this latest executive order on elections is some Jim Crow shit on steroids, all designed to keep the dictator and his party in power in 2026 and beyond. We would expect nothing less from those who are heavily and messily engaged in the Devil’s work.The order, which Trump signed on March 25, claims to “protect the integrity of American elections.” When MAGA Republicans p...
The ICE Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Step in Dismantling Free Speech in America
Mahmoud Khalil was snatched up by the feds. And we should all be concerned about this because we are next.A Palestinian man who was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year, Khalil was illegally abducted by ICE agents and sent to an immigration facility in Louisiana. A recent graduate of Columbia University with a master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, Khalil is a permanent U.S. resident whose pregnant wife is a U.S. citize...
Recognizing Black History in Journalism
During Periods 11 and 12 on Wednesday, February 27, Journalism and Media students along with Eagle’s Eye staff members and Black Student Union officers flocked to the auditorium to hear journalist and Rutgers Professor David Love speak about Black history and the importance of journalism. An alumnus of Harvard University, UPenn, and Oxford, Love’s presentation was full of details that reflected his extensive education.
“We first met him at GSSPA, and it was clear he had a passion and a significa...
“We first met him at GSSPA, and it was clear he had a passion and a significa...
Sankofa: How the History of Black Liberation Movements Prepares Us for This Moment
Sankofa is a term packed with a lot of meaning, and it means a great deal for Black people today as these MAGA folks are working in earnest to erase us — from history, society, politics, civic life, the economy and all aspects of America. But we have been here before. A Twi word from the Akan people of Ghana, Sankofa means “go back and get it,” or as my Gullah-Geechee folks would say, “Go bak and fetch it.” Aterall, like the proverb says, if oonuh ent kno weh oonuh dah gwine, oonuh should kno we...
America, You Are an Extremely Unserious Country
The reelection of Donald John Trump to the highest office
in the land - following two impeachments,
leadership in an insurrection and all sorts of
criminal indictments and convictions - is not
an American crisis, but rather a symptom of a
crisis that is called the United States of
America....
in the land - following two impeachments,
leadership in an insurrection and all sorts of
criminal indictments and convictions - is not
an American crisis, but rather a symptom of a
crisis that is called the United States of
America....
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