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Can we just say that Fox News is a white nationalist propaganda outfit cosplaying as a news network?

Can we just say that Fox News is a white nationalist propaganda outfit cosplaying as a news network?

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Fox “News” is not a right-leaning news organization but a propaganda network created to help the Republican Party. A threat to democracy, Fox News divides people and spreads white supremacist hate and lies for profit. Many already knew this, but the receipts coming from
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis knows exactly what he's doing with his war on books

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis knows exactly what he’s doing with his war on books

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

As we celebrate a Black History Month like no other, people are now faced with the reality that in places like Florida, books that discuss Black history or even mention Black people are now illegal.

Doing his best impression of a white segregationist from the 1950s South, Florida Gov. Ron De
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Why are people protesting Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’?

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Despite yearlong protests from environmental and anti-police activists in the Atlanta area, and right on the heels of the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Atlanta officials announced the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — dubbed “Cop City” by activists — will move forward.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and DeKalb County CEO Michael Thur
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John Sims, the artist known for burning the confederate flag, reminds us of the power of Black art

John Sims, the artist known for burning the confederate flag, reminds us of the power of Black art

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Of the many people we lost in 2022, one whose passing flew under the radar was multimedia artist, mathematician, Afrofuturist, writer, producer and activist John Sims, who died Dec. 11 at age 54. Sims — known for his ritual burning, burying and rethinking of the confedera
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Florida is America's insurrection capital

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Florida, that popular tourist destination with lots of sun, beaches and Mickey Mouse, has become a circus of white supremacist madness. A state with a long, unaddressed history of racial oppression and genocide is going back to the future and staking a claim for fascism. Welcome to the insurrection capital of America.

Those who need receipts need only look at the lates
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Perspective | America’s student loan crisis stems from a war on education as a public good

The United States is an outlier in terms of its prohibitively large student debt, which stands at $1.75 trillion and amounts to roughly 7.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and exorbitant college costs. Indeed, other countries such as France and Germany offer low-cost tuition, and in countries including Finland, Brazil, Norway and Panama, there is no tuition at all. But education did not always come at such a high cost in America, where public education was once treated as a publ
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How these Black families celebrate Kwanzaa in different ways

How these Black families celebrate Kwanzaa in different ways

Every year, from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, millions of Black people across the United States and parts of the African diaspora observe Kwanzaa — a celebration of family, community and culture. Born in the midst of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, Kwanzaa is a weeklong holiday of a cultural rather than religious nature. And while the holiday has core principles, values and symbols, families have formed their own traditions and ritu
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Black leadership can't behave like white leadership with a Black face

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Some in the Black community do not want to hear about any criticism of Black politicians, but here it goes. This is about transparency and accountability and ensuring that we have Black leaders as opposed to leading Blacks who take the money and run, and ask what these folks are doing in our name.

We should be proud of someone such as Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for assum
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Media reaction to Jerry Jones shows that white men suffer no consequences

Media reaction to Jerry Jones shows that white men suffer no consequences

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Will influential white men ever suffer consequences for the bad things they do? Do the news media even care?

When you look at those photos from the 1950s and 1960s of Black students integrating a school, you’ll undoubtedly see some white people — young people and adults alike — harassing, bullyi
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Justice Clarence Thomas needs to go

Justice Clarence Thomas needs to go

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is in the news again, and not in a good way — unless you are down for insurrection plots, corruption and conflicts of interest. And what we are hearing about the justice is more proof that it is time for him to leave the bench and take some of his colleagues with him.

The latest report from
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Meet Edward Blum, the man who wants to take down affirmative action

Meet Edward Blum, the man who wants to take down affirmative action

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday to decide whether to throw college affirmative action programs in the dustbin of history, and the highest court in the land appears poised to scrap the policy. We have the most diverse Supreme Court we have ever seen, yet it features an ultra-conser
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We have to talk about the white supremacist-adjacent, MAGA-loving Black folks

We have to talk about the white supremacist-adjacent, MAGA-loving Black folks

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

White supremacist-adjacent, MAGA-loving Black figures such as Kanye West would be dismissed as buffoons if they weren’t so dangerous.

As they say in Philly, Kanye West f’d around and found out when he lost his spot on the Forbes list of billionaires. This, after Adidas, Gap, Balenciaga and o
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Alabama planned to use a new, untested method for the death penalty. Even though the execution was blocked, here’s why you should care

Alabama planned to use a new, untested method for the death penalty. Even though the execution was blocked, here’s why you should care

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio

Bad habits are hard to break, and this most certainly applies to Alabama and the death penalty.

Alabama wants to execute prisoners with a new, untested method of capital punishment called nitrogen hypoxia. Death row inmate Alan Miller w
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Opinion | In the Pennsylvania Senate race, a familiar GOP strategy is at work

Supporters of Mehmet Oz — the Donald Trump-backed Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania — are going after Oz’s Democratic opponent John Fetterman with a new series of attack ads. The new spots, which are part of a $500,000 ad campaign from the pro-Oz group American Leadership Action, criticize Fetterman for a 2013 incident in which he pulled a gun on a Black jogger and detained him after mistakenly believing he had committed a crime.

Unsurprisingly, the 30-second version of the ad started a
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The 5 states with ballot initiatives to abolish slavery in 2022

The 5 states with ballot initiatives to abolish slavery in 2022

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

It’s 2022, and five states have ballot initiatives to abolish slavery.

Yes, you read that right.

In the “land of the free,” the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont have an opportunity to vote to abolish slavery, as part of an effort by the criminal justice reform movement effort t
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Will a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act help Black communities get environmental justice?

Will a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act help Black communities get environmental justice?

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Is a key to helping protect Black communities from climate change hidden in the Inflation Reduction Act?

In what is being hailed as a victory for the Biden administration and Democrats, the Inflation Reduction Act has been framed as a “game changer” for a country grapplin
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'The stakes are so high': Austin Davis and a new generation of Black leadership are running against a rising MAGA tide

‘The stakes are so high’: Austin Davis and a new generation of Black leadership are running against a rising MAGA tide

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

In this crucial midterm election season, democracy is on the ballot, and that’s real. Issues such as reproductive justice, voting rights and many basic freedoms hang in the balance as Trump acolytes hope to take power at the state and federal level, ga
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Democrats helped an election-denying, MAGA candidate win a primary. They better hope it doesn’t come back to bite them

Democrats helped an election-denying, MAGA candidate win a primary. They better hope it doesn’t come back to bite them

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Democrats think the best way to keep Congress is not only to run against the most extreme, election-denying, QAnon conspiracy-theory peddling, Trump-blessed candidates, but also to promote those candidates in Republican primaries and send them to the g
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Republican candidates who believe Trump's Big Lie are winning primaries

Republican candidates who believe Trump’s Big Lie are winning primaries

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Trump is no longer president, but the Trump cult continues to peddle his Big Lie—that the 2020 election was stolen from the former president. More than 100 Republican candidates for office—in statewide, U.S. House and Senate races—are drinking the orange Kool-Aid and promoting Trump’s bogus claims
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