Reviving the blog — See the film on Feb. 13!
Over the past nearly four years, since the publication of “Slavery by Another Name,” this website has been the platform for an interaction with readers of the book that has been simply astonishing for...
View ArticleHistorical contortionism
My heartfelt thanks to all of you who tuned it to watch the documentary in February. I’ve received hundreds of emails and tweets in the past 12 hours and thousands of visitors to this website. It’s...
View ArticleWhy we will vote FOR the Georgia Charter School Amendment on Nov. 6
As two of the founders of Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, buy the second charter school to open in Atlanta, capsule 10 years ago this fall, we have spent a lot of time considering the arguments...
View ArticleWho will win the 2012 election? The evidence says Obama
President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney—along with their myriad surrogates, order advisors and official and unofficial campaign wingmen—worked deep in the final night of the contentious...
View ArticleWho powered the passage of the charter school amendment in Georgia?...
By Douglas A. Blackmon One of the most striking results of the vote on Amendment 1, which was approved by Georgia voters on Tuesday and creates an independent commission to authorize public charter...
View ArticleThe father of one of four little girls killed by KKK bombing in 1963 is...
Published in The Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2013 by Douglas A. Blackmon One of the first inmates to benefit from the Obama administration’s new, less stringent guidelines on the early release of...
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Is President Obama truly ready to release thousands of prisoners?
My American Forum Interview With Attorney General Eric H. Holder by Douglas A. Blackmon Attorney General Eric H. Holder made some remarkable comments to me recently about the inequities of the...
View ArticleA Race of Whiners and Deniers
Nicholas Kristof gets it right in his NY Times column today, about how hard it is for us white folks in America to admit what enormous advantages we were born with because of the abuses of the...
View ArticleWhy must the Confederate banner come down? Because it is the battle flag of...
By Douglas A. Blackmon When I was a Boy Scout in Leland, Mississippi, my patrol in Troop 42 called itself “the Rebels” during 1976. I still have locked in a trunk somewhere little wooden blocks I...
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Which America Do We Want?
One in which the sea of anger is no longer rising? Or one in which a tide of fear and anger covers everything? OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES, without ever really intending to, I’ve become a student...
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