Dear Black men, This past week revealed the undiminished ugliness in American society’s perception of you. It was apparent when former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez described a 2 year-old Black boy as a “little monkey” while fantasizing about giving the toddler a “beatdown.” And we saw it…

A retraction is one thing; it prevents any further damage from being done. But we as a justice-driven organization recognize that when harms are suffered, recompense for those injuries must be pursued. In this regard, the American Descendants of Slavery Advocacy Foundation (ADOS AF) expresses its unequivocal support for the…

The American Descendants of Slavery Advocacy Foundation (ADOS AF) feels the woefully familiar churn of emotions — sorrow, rage, disgust and dismay — in the wake of Saturday’s anti-Black massacre in Buffalo, New York. To the victims’ families we extend our most profound condolences, and alongside them we mourn all…

The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) has quietly deleted a research project from its website after questions surfaced about the project’s legitimacy. The research initiative, Disinformation Creep: How Breaking News Stories are Used to Engage in Online Voter Suppression, was undertaken by PACS Practitioner Fellow Mutale Nkonde…

As members of the editorial board of Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review, your presence is meant to confer credibility and legitimacy upon the journal. However the journal’s evident disinterest in the truth, and its vehement hostility to debate, naturally precludes any such effect. You have likely heard that, earlier this…

It appears I’ve garnered something of a reputation as a writer of “hit pieces.” I would object. I think labeling my articles as hit pieces diminishes the actual level of artifice and cunning that the genre demands of its writers. Hit piece writers are extremely self-conscious about their motives being…