Ancestral Nana is back—with a history lesson we can’t afford to ignore. From the Black Codes and Jim Crow to fast-tracking white South African “refugees” while rejecting Black and Brown asylum seekers, Nana connects the dots between America’s past and its present. She’s here to say what needs to be said: This isn’t new. It’s […]
Flashback to the 1930s: Racism Rebranded, Democracy Unraveled—Where Do We Go From Here?
By Edrea Davis – In the 1930s, Germany didn’t collapse overnight or simply hand the reins over to Adolf Hitler. It crumbled slowly, legally, and with the consent of millions who watched democracy erode—believing their institutions were too strong to fail. Democracy gave way to dictatorship not through a sudden coup, but through laws, propaganda, […]
An Inside View of Donald Trump’s “Great America”
By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, Ph.D.- Pasadena, MD – During my tenure in Governor Mario Cuomo’s Cabinet as the first African American Commissioner of New York State Housing, I had first-hand knowledge of the management and rental tactics employed by Donald Trump’s organization and how he played fast and loose with black folks’ destiny in the early […]
