CAN WE COUNT ON THE COURTS?

Thoughts from Sia Tiambi Barnes

Whilst the world mourns the deaths today of Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh and Earl “DMX” Simmons — royalty in his own right — President Joe Biden set a somber tone for his campaign trail promise to “see what recommendations” may be made for an “out of whack” U.S. court system.…  

15,000 years in America — will the Redskins migrate again?

The idea of race is an antiquated one — not quite old enough to persist, perhaps, yet pervasive enough to discuss.  This Spring, for example, the United States Supreme Court will consider the revocation of the Redskins trademark, held by the National Football League Team based in Washington, D.C. bearing that name.  At play is the decision of whether or not this word is disparaging to some, and the underlying message it sends to persons who do not self-identify as “Red” thus raising a classic conflict between the First Amendment and the right to profit greatly from its use.…  

A Reason to Sit With Colin Kaepernick

We are all on the bench for the opening of the 49ers first game this season. These United States are in the throws of a heated conversation about what an “insider” like Hillary Clinton and an “outsider” like Donald Trump may bring to the table in November. Polls show Trump’s open and candid approach is divisive, as is Clinton’s alleged hidden information.…