We Call BS: Parkland students join relay race for liberation
Published April 5, 2018 by the St. Louis American Jamala Rogers “So my bet is on the young people who are in motion based upon the latest mass shooting. The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have lit a prairie fire.” This was part of the opening paragraph in my March 5 column, ”Guns, youth […]
A soldier without a sword: 25 years with The American
Published March 14, 2018 in celebration of The St. Louis American’s 90th Anniversary By Jamala Rogers “The Black Press was never intended to be objective because it didn’t see the white press being objective. It often took a position. It had an attitude. This was a press of advocacy. There was news, but the news […]
Why I fight for worker rights: Centaur janitors deserve more
Published February 22, 2018 in the St. Louis American By Jamala Rogers There is a lot of hoodwinking and shell-moving tactics going on by the Trump administration as it tries to paint a rosy economic picture for the country. The president has touted low employments rates, including for African Americans. Then there’s the “biggest […]