It’s Story Time
As we approach the mid-terms, more than one commentator has framed the key question as “who controls the narrative.” One might think that...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 26, 2022
The White Dream of Safety
Like everyone else, white people dream of safety. The desire for safety, in fact, may be as strong if not stronger than other primal...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 4, 2022
Whose History is Upon Us?
Whose history is upon us? Right now, the history of white America seems to have gained control of the Supreme Court and much of public...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Mar 1, 2022
Ukrainian Resistance and American Memories
What does watching the pain and resistance of Ukrainian civilians trigger for you? What do you remember? American memory, of course, is...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Nov 17, 2021
How Should We Share the Crop?
Sharecropping has a bad reputation not because it’s a bad idea, but because it was not protected from exploitation. In fact, it’s a good...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Sep 14, 2021
The American Legacy of Reproduction
To understand the motives for the expansion of State control over women in Texas and elsewhere, it may help to see how the legacy of...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 27, 2021
Critical Race Theory and Coherence
The challenge of Critical Race Theory is not so much about canceling culture but rather about deciding what we should emphasize in...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 14, 2021
Resetting our American Thermostat
Did you ever wonder what prevents us from moving closer to a climate of justice—a social predisposition for fairness? Could it be a kind...
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Marvin T. Brown
- May 4, 2021
The American Tragedy
There are different kinds of tragedy, but the American one follows a rather typical pattern. Unknown or denied past events cause one’s...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jan 27, 2021
Better or Different
If something is going in the wrong direction, the worst thing you can do is to “make it better.” Ok, “Build Back Better” Is better than...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Nov 17, 2020
71 Million and National Unity
We elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That’s majority rule! Yet, seventy-one millions of us voted for a racist predator who has...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Aug 4, 2020
Why we should cancel the Presidential debates
If you were visiting from almost anywhere, you would want to know why we have over 154,000 coronavirus deaths. One answer is the lack of...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 22, 2020
Does America have a Soul?
There’s a battle going on, that’s for sure, but is it for the “Soul of America” as Joe Biden has suggested? Let’s do what we can to get...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jun 1, 2020
Trump’s America
True, the deaths of over 100,000 persons offers us a good picture of Trump’s America, especially when we know that thousands could have...
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Marvin T. Brown
- May 12, 2020
Language matters: Should we say “plantation” or “slave farm”?
What does the term “concentration camp” bring to mind? What about “Internment camp” or “re-education center”? Is the word “plantation”...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Apr 27, 2020
Why has the Environmental Movement failed us?
It’s not clear what question Michael Moore’s new film, “Planet of the Humans” is trying to answer, but a good guess would be that it is a...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Apr 14, 2020
Creating a Climate of Justice and Limiting American prosperity
If there is one thing we must, absolutely must, learn from this epidemic is how to accept limits. This is not the land of “unlimited...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Feb 25, 2020
The Clash of Stories on the National Mall
The Museum for African American History and Culture has six floors, and most people start their visit, as I did, by taking an elevator...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Feb 17, 2020
The Tailwinds of American Prosperity
The tailwinds are strong They carry our wrongs, If things don’t change, we’ll get where we’re going. Some suffer, some don’t Some go with...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Feb 9, 2020
The Atlantic Climate of Injustice
Sometimes a picture is actually worth a thousand words. This may be one of them. The climate of injustice caused by the Atlantic...
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