Watching “The Batman” on mute. Plans of installing a jail at Donda Academy. Pretending to “please” himself. Threatening to punch a staffer. Ranting about the greatness of Hitler. Treating white staffers better than his Black staffers. Grammys 2022: 10 Black Artists Who’ve Won Album of the Year Off English These are all things Kanye West […]
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Donald Trump’s Hate Has No Place in Black America. Let’s Remind Him in November.
We are seven months out from the most consequential election in our nation’s history, and Black voters know what’s up: A recent survey conducted by Black pollster Cornell Belcher’s firm asked 800 Black voters in battleground states to identify the single greatest threat to the Black community. Can Donald Trump Serve As President From Prison? […]
Read MoreThe American Right’s Dictator Fan Club
In some cases the fans were intellectuals or writers. Buckley excitedly led the charge to defend Francoist Spain and apartheid South Africa (his 1957 pro-Franco missive, “Letter From Spain,” remains nauseating reading seven decades years on). In other cases, the dictators’ cheerleaders were people in positions of real power. Reagan-era fixture Jeane Kirkpatrick worked behind […]
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