Peniel E. Joseph, The Dallas Morning News

Peniel E. Joseph

The Dallas Morning News

Austin, TX, United States

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Past articles by Peniel:

The shooting in Buffalo belongs to a long history of racist terrorism in America

The racist shooting massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., by a teenagewhite supremacist that left 10 Black people dead and injured three others is part of a deeper... → Read More

John Lewis knew civil rights did not end with voting rights or Barack Obama

The Georgia congressman’s life was more complex than tributes might make out. His embrace of Black Lives Matter shows he knew racist oppression never came close to ending → Read More

The only way to live up to America’s founding ideals is to end systemic racism

With the Fourth of July just days away, it’s encouraging that many Americans are realizing that ending systemic racism is the only way we as a nation can... → Read More

Chicago '68: The 50-Year Lessons America Still Hasn't Learned

Fifty years ago, anti-war protesters swarmed the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to reject the Vietnam War, state violence, and injustice. In the process they turned the city into a veritable battleground over the fate of American democracy. | By Peniel Joseph → Read More

A Presidency Built on Racial Divisions

Racial violence that gripped Charlottesville, Va., causing the governor to declare a state of emergency represents a case of what Malcolm X famously characterized as “chickens coming home to roost.” President Donald Trump’s bluntly facile appeal to deep-seated racial divisions would be comical if it weren’t so dangerously effective. → Read More

As Summer Ends, Tensions Remain High Between Black Community and Police

The summers of 2014 and 2015 were marked by police shootings, hashtags and unrest. The summer of 2016 has been no different. → Read More

President Obama Defends Phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ in Unprecedented Town Hall

Taking a muted tone, the president tried to thread the needle between the anguished needs of African Americans and defending the police as imperfect public servants. → Read More

50 Years Ago Stokely Carmichael Called for ‘Black Power,’ Galvanizing a Movement

Fifty years ago this Thursday, the call for “black power” by Stokely Carmichael in Greenwood, Miss., transformed the black freedom struggle. → Read More

Bill Clinton Speaking at Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Is the Corporate Co-Optation of an Icon

In life, and now in death, Muhammad Ali cut a swashbuckling, larger-than-life figure. Three days of celebration for Ali will culminate in a public funeral service led by former President Bill Clinton Friday in Louisville, Ky. → Read More

Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Comments Cross a Moral Line

The GOP front-runner’s religious intolerance is akin to the scapegoating of Jews in Nazi Germany. → Read More

Black Student Activists Stand Against Racist Cultures on Campus

From Yale to Missouri, college campuses are becoming ground zero in challenging white supremacy and institutional racism. → Read More

Hip-Hop’s Nas Joins Eric Holder as W.E.B. Du Bois Honoree

The third annual Hutchins Centers Honors convened Wednesday evening at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. The event honors trailblazers in politics, culture, business and finance. This year's Du Bois Medal awardees—including Muhammad Ali (in absentia), former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Children’s Defense Fund’s Marian Wright Edelman, Ariel Investments’ Mellody... → Read More

Elizabeth Warren’s Embrace of Black Lives Matter Is an Example of Moral Leadership

In her Sunday speech, which tackled economic injustice and violence against African Americans, she threw down a gauntlet for the current presidential contenders. → Read More

Jeb Bush Saying Blacks Want 'Free Stuff' For Votes Insults Our Dignity and History of Struggle

Jeb Bush’s statement perpetuates a mythology of ignorance that casts black folks as a lazy mass of people who are dependent on government largesse for their existence. → Read More

On Its 50th Anniversary, the Voting Rights Act Is Under Full-Blown Attack

The national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act takes place against the backdrop of a devastating full-scale assault on the civil rights movement’s signature legislation. For African Americans, the passage of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, represented the culmination of a centuries-long struggle... → Read More

President Calls for Racial Justice and Prison Reform

In a rousing speech before the NAACP’s annual convention, President Barack Obama said that black and brown children should not be tagged criminals because of their race. → Read More

Why the Treatment of Haitian Families in the Dominican Republic Is a Crisis

The dark-skinned immigrants and their descendants being pushed out of the Dominican Republic are canaries in the coal mine of a global anti-immigrant catastrophe. → Read More

A Forceful Obama Decries Racism and White Supremacy in Eulogy

Channeling the race man many have long clamored for this president to be, Obama lectured on the injustices and racism that have plagued the African-American community. → Read More

Why the Black Church Has Always Mattered

The brutal act of racial terror that took the lives of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., purposely targeted the most important institution that has ever existed in the black community: the black church. So it should come as no surprise that in the... → Read More

It’s Time the Feds Start Tracking Police Violence

A federal database is vital for understanding the depth of police misconduct and for finding a cure to a national crisis that new technology has made visible to the world. → Read More