About Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist and author of “Spare The Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America” and the forthcoming “Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children In Jim Crow America.” You can find her on Substack.
Let’s not pretend that America’s literacy crisis began with this generation of teenagers when it has been documented for more than 50 years.
We must not dismiss the new rollback on childhood vaccines as just another fresh eruption of stupidity, "parental choice,” religious conscience, anti-science lunacy, or administrative incompetence.
During a panel focused on voting and civic engagement, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett argued that Black women have been disproportionately harmed by the Trump regime’s attacks on DEI in the workforce.
ICE has made legitimate law enforcement look so much like criminal abduction in broad daylight that private predators are now able to reproduce state terror almost perfectly.
Sandy Brondello’s apology to WNBA star Angel Reese was supposed to end the controversy. She said she was sorry multiple times, right?
Trump's top officials create a category of domestic enemies who can be blamed, surveilled, financially strangled, arrested, and prosecuted when people resist.
South Carolina officials decided that the best-qualified person to temporarily fill Lindsey Graham's vacant seat and represent the entire state was his sister, Darline Graham Nordone.
As soon as word of Graham’s death hit the political streets, Washington started the familiar work of embalming his reputation.
After the weather took a turn during their display of white patriot pride, MAGA had to take refuge inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
HBCUs are especially vulnerable because they enroll large numbers of students whose families depend on federal aid and Parent PLUS or Grad PLUS loans.
Before Kohen Wiley was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see there was a child in the car.
This wasn't about Oyelowo discussing the nuances of dialect; it was how he described his idea of Southern Black blackness that ticked folks off.