Op-Ed: Trump’s Re-Election: Reckoning With The Present And Bracing For The Future

Essence Magazine:

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images By Jameelah Nasheed ·Updated January 19, 2025

Our country has elected a convicted felon sexual abuser who tried to overturn an election and provoked an insurrection, has been dismissive of our Constitution, has proudly stripped women of reproductive rights, and has expressed having no interest in upholding our democracy to be president. Again. 

We’ve been here before, but this time is different because we now know,

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