j. pharoah doss

3 min read 2022-01-18 21:19:13

Check It Out…Oxford School shooter and ‘urban terrorists’

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Last November, a mass shooting occurred at Oxford High School in Oakland County, Michigan.

3 min read 2022-01-11 22:28:02

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Gloria Jean Watkins, best known by her pen name bell hooks, died last month at the age of sixty-nine.

3 min read 2022-01-04 22:26:06

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier After a White Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, riots broke out

3 min read 2021-12-28 22:00:38

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In the 1890s White mobs lynched dozens of Black men for raping White women. Investigative journalist

3 min read 2021-12-21 22:00:07

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier During the 1990s the term— White supremacy—was either a historical description of America’s

3 min read 2021-12-14 22:50:38

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 2012, Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old, was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a Hispanic

3 min read 2021-12-07 22:00:25

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In March 2020, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed he would select a woman as his

3 min read 2021-11-30 20:47:34

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 1988, Peggy McIntosh, a White feminist scholar, wrote a paper called “White Privilege and Male

1 min read 2021-11-23 22:30:11

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and filmmaker Ava DuVernay co-produced a Netflix miniseries

3 min read 2021-04-27 23:34:46

by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier During the trial of Derek Chauvin, the White Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering a Black

3 min read 2021-04-19 23:41:02

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Right now, the Derek Chauvin trial is still in progress. Chauvin is the White Minneapolis police

3 min read 2021-04-13 23:31:45

by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier During high-profile cases involving White police officers and Black men, in which the former caused the

3 min read 2021-04-06 23:53:17

by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier I went to a high school that was 98 percent Black. I had Black classmates that were in a predominately

3 min read 2021-03-30 22:45:01

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The book, “The Great Debate,” chronicled the philosophical dispute between Thomas Paine and Edmund

3 min read 2021-03-23 22:57:20

by J. Pharoah Doss For New Pittsburgh Courier A reader—initials “GJ”—responded to a column I wrote last month. I stated the first Black