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Category: Commentary

Commentary

Who Gains When the Economy Implodes?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The much-reported fact that Black women lost more than 300,000 jobs in the past several month trickles down to students whose tuition may be unpaid, families who spiral down to instability, and communities in crisis.

The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not performing…

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Cover Story

The Corrosive Ideology of Donald John Trump

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The President has said many times that we talk about enslavement too much. I say we cannot talk about it often enough.

When does a depiction of history turn into a “corrosive ideology”? When the current administration is working overtime to erase facts about our nation’s history and…

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Commentary

Pam Bondi and the First Amendment

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

It is important to remember that when you attempt to curtail the free speech of others, it may very well only be a matter of time before your voice can be stifled or outright silenced.

The horrific and sadistic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has unleashed all sorts of cascading emotions and has apparently resulted in Attorney General…

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Commentary

Political Violence Is Inexcusable

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

No child anywhere should lose a parent in such a hateful, callous way. It will require much more than quoting my father for the United States to evolve from our current conundrum of multifaceted violence, tragic apathy, and degrading policies. - Bernice A. King

The assassination of Charlie Kirk - the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism - at Utah Valley University is a tragedy.…

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Commentary

Criminalizing Dissent

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

This administration is committed to criminalizing dissent, and they have dozens of elected lackeys following the instructions of their mob boss.

Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). She…

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Commentary

Tariffs, Tyrants, and Trade Wars: Trump’s Foreign Policy Gamble With Xi, Putin, Modi, and Kim – The Invisible Woman

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

How Trump’s fixation on tariffs collides with the ambitions of China, Russia, India, and North Korea—reshaping global alliances and undermining U.S. credibility.

When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, his foreign policy was guided less by strategy than by spectacle. He railed against China’s economic rise,…

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Commentary

Marriage Equality on the Rocks – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The irony here is that many of the civil rights gains that ascended Thomas to the highest court in the land, he now wants to dismantle.

Overturning marriage equality is now a present threat. Many of the issues both POC and LGBTQI+ Americans confronted in Trump’s first term - health care, unemployment,…

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Commentary

The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by the growth of right-wing populist and neofascist mass movements.…

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Cover Story

Welcome Back Cowards

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Congress has authority, but they fail to use it.

Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice, many Republicans kissing the ring…

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Commentary

The Epitome of Dumbness To Criticize the Smithsonian

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

The fact is that slavery was violent, responsible for the deaths of millions of people, destroyed families, economically decimated entire populations, robbed them of their religion and cultural heritage, etc. There was nothing positive about it.

Slavery is the latest issue that has drawn the ire of the Trump administration and Trump in particular. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything…

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