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Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. These days, we all see an administration reflected back at itself: murky, expensive, badly managed, reflexively punitive and seemingly […]

Civil rights leader Muhammad Kenyatta with his grandson, future State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta (Credit: Malcolm Kenyatta) Muhammad Kenyatta’s fight for justice stretched from challenging discrimination in the U.S. Air Force to organizing in Mississippi, where FBI surveillance and intimidation forced his family to flee, and later activism in Philadelphia. His grandson, State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta, reflects on discovering that legacy only after his father’s death and the remarkable ways their […]

Dr. Jason Johnson, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and political analyst for MS NOW, joined Dr. James Peterson on Evening WURDs to discuss the National Association of Black Journalists conference and its “Thumbs Down” awards. Johnson backed NABJ’s criticism of The Washington Post, CBS News and Stephen A. Smith, arguing that accountability for poor journalism and treatment of Black journalists is not punishment. Dr. Tim Golden, […]