In Loving Memory of Les Payne – July 12, 1941 – March 19, 2018
INTRODUCTION Shortly after the news of Les Payne’s passing reached me, the editors of The Undefeated, an online news platform that explores the intersection of...
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A Session With President Obama, 2010
"This is really your time, so rather than me filibustering with a lot of statements at the top, what I would suggest is just that...
William Monroe Trotter Was Perhaps the Most ‘Rude’ African American Journalist This Nation Has Produced
William Monroe Trotter told President Woodrow Wilson in 1914, " "Two years ago, you were regarded as a second Abraham Lincoln . . . Now...
‘We Wanted to Do What We Could to Insure That the Voices of Black Columnists Would Speak the Loudest . . . ’
The idea that a group of black columnists would come together to share our common experiences and probe the soft underbelly of our craft was...
The Trotter Group: Opening Statement
You can't counter powerful white columnists without powerful black columnists, the late Les Payne told fellow commentators in his call to action at the Trotter...