About David A. Love

David A. Love is a journalist and commentator who writes investigative stories and op-eds on a variety of issues, including politics, social justice, human rights, race, criminal justice and inequality. Love is also an instructor at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, where he trains students in a social justice journalism lab. In addition to his journalism career, Love has worked as an advocate and leader in the nonprofit sector, served as a legislative aide, and as a law clerk to two federal judges. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also completed the Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. His portfolio website is davidalove.com.

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July 12, 2011
OPINION - Most Americans, believing the mythology of rugged individualism and bootstrap levitation, refuse to believe they benefit from government…
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July 8, 2011
OPINION - For African-Americans -- the most loyal of Obama's base, and voters he will surely need to secure his…
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July 5, 2011
OPINION - By publicizing and advertising what had happened to them, these African-American celebrities have provided a public service...
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June 27, 2011
OPINION - The times demand concrete action, not symbolic gestures or rhetorical gymnastics...
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June 24, 2011
OPINION - Apparently the public is not over O.J., although one could possibly think of a number of reasons why…
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June 21, 2011
OPINION - Justice Thomas must resign if America is to begin to restore integrity to the judiciary...
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June 15, 2011
OPINION - Bachmann has been one of the most extreme and racially insensitive voices of right wing opposition to the…
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June 7, 2011
OPINON - According to Rick Santorum, things were just fine in the U.S. before the creation of the welfare state...
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June 2, 2011
OPINION - Apparently, disaster victims, the unemployed, the working poor, welfare recipients and black and Latino children in crumbling inner…
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May 27, 2011
OPINION - Can she win against an incumbent who has substantive work experience and, for all of his perceived shortcomings…
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May 24, 2011
OPINION - Without Oprah, we would be deprived of one of the nation's most profound success stories, and a role…
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May 17, 2011
OPINION - The only thing more outrageous than a Trump presidential run is that some people in this country gave…
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May 11, 2011
OPINION - As one reporter said of Newt Gingrich, 'It was the racism that threw me'...
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May 10, 2011
OPINION - Not surprisingly, the anti-sagging laws come at a time when young people -- particularly poor children and children…
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May 3, 2011
OPINION - The five young men who were ultimately indicted, tried and convicted say they were coerced into a confession...
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April 27, 2011
OPINION - Demanding that the president produce his college transcript, like demanding that he show his birth certificate, is an…
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April 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Michigan State Police has bought the 'Universal Forensic Extraction Device', a handheld gadget which can copy…
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April 19, 2011
OPINION - The depiction of the nation's first black president as an ape or a monkey has been used against…
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April 14, 2011
OPINION - The attacks on the president's citizenship, combined with the personal jabs against Mr. Obama and his family, are…
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April 12, 2011
OPINION - For example, 46 percent of Mississippi Republican voters believe that interracial marriage should be prohibited by law...