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.
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.
If you don't read anything else this weekend, read this column from Dr. Stacey Patton, which outlines how quickly Jeff Metcalf's racism jumped out once the gag order was lifted.
The recent cases of Karmelo Anthony and Cyrus Carmack-Belton feel like a get-back or a snapback, backlash that has been waiting underneath the Black Lives Matter movement.
Once again, the legal system has reminded Black America that our children can be murdered in the marketplace and their killers can be afforded reasonable doubt.
Days after the sixth anniversary of George Floyd's public murder, the Minnesota Republican Party held a moment of silence for his killer, Derek Chauvin.