Askia Muhammad, a renowned journalist, photographer, poet, and Black Press columnist, has died. “With deep sadness, the family of Askia Muhammad announces his passing of natural causes today at the age of 76,” WPFW-Radio in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. “A private service will be held with a memorial planned for a future date. […]

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Robert Smith's latest gambit is to become an owner of a National Football League team. Ha!

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The handwriting is clearly on the wall.

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Exactly one year after Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. became the 46th president of the United States, yet another Great White Hope has begun his descent from the heavenly expectations of Black folks in this country, into the reality of increasing levels of race hatred being shown by more and more and more white people every day.

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Poor Democrats. Poor Congress. Those folks are left clinging to the belief that the changing demographics in this country which will render a white minority population in a couple of decades will make a difference.

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For weeks and weeks, I've been warning that calamity and war are on the horizon in this country.

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I would certainly think that, in a town with a Black female mayor, a Black chief of police, and where the only recent chief who wasn't Black was a woman, such a jurisdiction would be a poster child for how to treat women in the police department's ranks. That's what I would have thought until recently.

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By every possible, by every imaginable, by every conceivable metric possible — digital, analog; stereo, mono; in living color, black and white; sweet, tart, savory; historic, astrological, meteorological — by every objective standard there is, it's evident for all to see, that this white, tribal enclave called USA, which imposed itself in the Western Hemisphere 500 years ago, is doomed. Doomed!

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Unless something unexpected and dreadful befalls him going forward, expect to see Kyle Rittenhouse — the cherubic-looking kid who sobbed his way into eternity on the witness stand in his own murder trial — morph into the 21st century's Folk Hero Extraordinaire — the new-age Mickey Rooney.

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Ujamaa Shule is perhaps the oldest independent Black school in the country but it faces daily challenges in 2021 — including harassment by D.C. city officials, some believe — to drive the legendary African-centered school out of the centrally located Shaw neighborhood.

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