Black Kos
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Black Kos Tuesday: Call me a cynic, I guess… (opens the original)
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“Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she believes America will eventually elect a Black woman president, while challenging the premise behind questions about whether the country is “ready” for one. Harris made the comments during an interview on UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham. The conversation, highlighted by The Meteor in a post promoting the season finale, touched on Black women’s leadership, political representation and the expectations placed on women seeking positions o
Black Kos, Week In Review: “The Klan Never Just Rode at Night” (opens the original)
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Nolan Wells didn’t have any water in his lungs. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin didn’t attack an angry adult in the rain with a bag of Skittles and a bottle of Snapple. Tamir Rice never pointed his airsoft toy gun at anybody while playing alone in the snow. Birdwatcher Christian Cooper never threatened to kill illegal off leash dog walker Amy “Karen” Cooper. Breonna Taylor never woke up. George Floyd couldn’t breathe. Sandra Bland didn’t hang herself and neither have the scores of Black men, w
Black Kos Tuesdays: “Atlantic, I Know Your Real Name” (opens the original)
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When the White House Press Pool stood up to the Mad King’s demand to ban the Free Press from the White House grounds, we were reminded of the AP’s lawsuit from 2025 to have its credentials restored. What was their great transgression? They refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America as Trump ordered, and for that they were labelled an enemy of the state. The lawsuit continues as well-placed MAGA jurists are more than happy to make their Mad King happy. Names are powerful things. I wro
Black Kos, Week In Review - The Black Pioneer of the West (opens the original)
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James Pierson Beckwourth (born April 26, 1798 or 1800 – and died October 29, 1866 or 1867 the dates are unclear), was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. James Beckwourth made major contributions to America’s early Western explorations. He documented and recorded his journey from Florida’s Everglades to the Pacific Ocean as well as from Canada’s south to Mexico’s north. He was the only African American who left such detailed record of these areas at this time. Beckwourth, who was
Black Kos Tuesday: Make me smile, make me laugh :) (opens the original)
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With human extinction due to arrive by 2030 (at least according to a few artificial intelligence workers and CEOs), rising prices on, like, everything, the fact that we are seven months into a 4-6 week war with no end in sight, and that we have an incompetent, corrupt, and racist “leader” presiding over most of these events, these times are, needless to say, tense. Frankly, I’ve been having a problem keeping a smile on my face for longer than a moment or appreciating funny jokes or…just approach
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