Jarvis DeBerry
MSNBC Opinion Editor
Jarvis DeBerry is an opinion editor for MS NOW Daily. He was previously editor-in-chief at the Louisiana Illuminator and a columnist and deputy opinion editor at The Times-Picayune.
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Why the Trump administration was so quick to label Renee Good a ‘violent rioter’
The government’s broad, seemingly reflexive, use of “violent rioters” has helped push the noxious idea that it’s criminal to publicly gather and express outrage at government officials
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Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ executive order was bad. Then it got a lot worse.
The president, who spent much of the past year renaming things, demonstrated again that he’s more interested in decreeing than governing.
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For America’s 250th birthday, Trump plans to celebrate himself
The Trump administration rejected a recommendation from the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee that would tell a story of America that doesn’t stop at the American Revolution but would also include abolition, women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Trump’s pick for a top FEMA job has the wrong idea about charity
Trump, who has talked of shuttering the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seems determined not to staff it with experienced, enterprising people.
MS NOW Opinion
Jailhouse lawyer’s election win prompts uncomfortable questions
You can’t have a penal system as merciless as ours and not rob the outside world of people as talented as Calvin Duncan, the newly elected clerk of criminal court in New Orelans.
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Target’s new smile policy disrespects its employees — and the shoppers who left
The Minneapolis-based retailer isn’t suffering lower sales because its employees are rude but because it disrespected a significant portion of its customer base.
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Cancer is bigger than Scott Adams. President Trump ought to act like it.
Trump told Scott Adams he was ‘On it!’ But what about all the other cancer patients he’s disregarded with cuts to medical research funding?
MS NOW Opinion
Louisiana governor’s demand for a Charlie Kirk statue is a shameful power play
It’s unclear what percentage of LSU students would want a Kirk statue, but any such monument would be built against the will of a significant proportion of the LSU community.
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Why Chicago’s Brandon Johnson fumed at ‘illegal alien’ question
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson argued that the phrase “illegal alien” strips away the humanity of the person in question.
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New film shows Andrew Young embracing the civil rights work that wasn’t glamorous
The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no less necessary.