A Word on Tonight’s Debate Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
In Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, the narrator recalls an intriguing boxing match: “Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift a...
Author: drtjbolden
Tony Bolden is Editor of The Langston Hughes Review and author of Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture, The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture, and the forthcoming book Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk.
Chinua Achebe and Modern American Politics
Earlier this evening, I was reminded once again of Chinua Achebe’s 1959 novel Things Fall Apart. Though it probably sounds counterintuitive, Senator Tim Scott’s...
On Trump’s Refusal to Concede: A Contrarian View
All too often, the commentary on Trump’s refusal to concede is as useless as third-grade math books in a quantum physics class. American pundits, politicians, a...
Blues People
(For Amiri, B...
Op-Ed: The Rona and Politics Today
Alexander Burns’s article, “Could the 2020 Election Be Postponed? Only With Great Difficulty. Here’s Why,” published in The New York Times on March 14, 2020, ex...