Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Howard French
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He can't.
I'm old enough to remember when the US policy slogan toward the continent was "African solutions to African problems," which basically meant don't count on our help. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...
This happened to my family in Gordonsville when I was a boy.
Stand by for this to be replicated with any forthcoming AI regulation.
And immigration is just sitting there, staring the country right in the face as its most powerful asset. See this thing I wrote a decade ago about this, in the follow-on, below. Things change fast. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Requiem for CNN. nypost.com/2026/06/09/m...
Unusually fine sports writing, by Marcus Thompson. www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...
Ugh. www.wsj.com/business/uni...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Reading. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A new tax law, declining fertility and falling immigration are reducing revenue into the retirement trust fund.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
Who is Steve Hilton, the Briton who could become California’s next governor?
Phillips OBrien
Hilton has worn many hats since he arrived in the US 14 years ago, and now faces steep odds of defeating Democratic Xavier Becerra in November
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Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.
Charlottesville did this with a "white" elementary school & the "white" high school. Shut them down rather than admit a small number of Black children.
The Guardian
Howard French
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
Eliot Higgins
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (@eji.org)
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
“… white officials in numerous cities voluntarily shut down public parks, swimming pools, [etc.] … choosing to deny all citizens these benefits rather than to extend them to Black people.”
"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.."
Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
