November 5, 2024

DEI Must Go

In 1968, author Shelby Steele was working in East St. Louis, as a “proud warrior” in President Johnson’s War on Poverty. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Johnson’s Great Society unleashed a wave of optimism for black Americans th...

May 9, 2024

The Cruelty of Woke Compassion

In the film The Shawshank Redemption, inmate Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman) says: “There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret…I look back at the way I was then. A young…stupid kid who committed that t...

April 3, 2024

Farewell, Columbus Drive

According to CBS Chicago, Alderman Lamont J. Robinson wants to rename Columbus Drive to Barack Obama Drive. "We need to honor more Black men, and this is one small way we can do that," Robinson wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Chicago...

June 14, 2023

Black Comedians Told Uncomfortable Truths That Came to Naught

In 1996 comedian Chris Rock performed an HBO special called, “Bring the Pain” (full video here). His most memorable routine began with: “Who’s more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. Because everything white p...