During a speech last week declaring opioid addiction a national public health emergency, President Trump made the extraordinary claim that 64,000 American lives were lost last year due to drug overdoses. “More people are dying from drug overdoses today than from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined,” he said. Trump continued to embellish his case, […]
Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson is a Pulitzer-finalist journalist and in 2021 was the recipient of the Scripps-Howard opinion writing award and the Gold Award for Teen Nonfiction for The Puffin Plan in the Benjamin Franklin Awards of the Independent Book Publishers Association. He is a member of the Prospect’s board of directors.
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White Nationalist Bigotry Is the Official Policy of Trump’s White House
Conservatives who indignantly hounded African Americans from government jobs during the Clinton and Obama administrations haven’t batted an eye at the overt racism of Donald Trump’s appointees.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Race and Representation in the Twilight of the Obama Era
Will the eight years of America’s first black president lead to more political voice for black citizens—or less?