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At a time when employment needs demand flexibility, legislation is insisting on punitive rigidity. Who in Congress will speak up for our nation’s students?
The big ugly boondoggle, which our President calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of resources from the poor to the wealthy, preserving 2017…
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such blatantly raw, racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic comments and rhetoric from today’s Republican Party dominate its fabric, from party blogs, podcasts, and websites to newscasts and national conventions.
Zohran Mamdani’s unlikely victory on June 24 in New York’s Democratic primary for mayor shell-shocked the nation’s political establishment, forcing pundits and party officials to entertain…
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The current Republican Party has become so rapacious, barbarous, and amoral in its blind thirst for power that it seems determined to attack and, if possible, overturn any social movements and political norms established in our constitution’s fabric.
The fact is that it took little time for Republican pundits, politicians, influencers and other right-wing sycophants to blame Democratic politicians and liberals for the assassinations…
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Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that…
Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that…
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most of these people are not the “dangerous criminals” that our very dangerous president rails about.
Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town where all…
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if Christian nationalism were successful in becoming the norm, it would abolish our current constitution and fragment our democracy.
Some of you are probably aware that Christian music legend Michael Tait, whose hit song “God’s Not Dead (Like a Lion)” became a symbolic tune for…
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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, The Reverend Irene Monroe is an ordained minister, motivational speaker and she speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible. Rev. Monroe does a weekly Monday segment, “All Revved Up!” on WGBH (89.7 FM), on Boston Public Radio and a weekly Friday segment “The Take” on New…
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, The Reverend Irene Monroe is an ordained minister, motivational speaker and she speaks for a sector of society that is…
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African American Music Appreciation Month ought to remind us of those early musicians who took spoons to pots to create a beat, or those gospel singers who invoked the sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home. It ought to lift subterfuge, how we used hidden meaning in songs to communicate.
Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first officially…
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They are attacking higher education with a viciousness not seen since the McCarthy era.
Santa J. Ono recently received an opportunity to serve as president of the University of Florida. It was a position for which the university’s board of…
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Someone without health insurance is 40 percent more likely to die prematurely than someone with health insurance.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst illustrated her shortsighted myopia at a town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa. Not only did she defend cuts that would remove, according…
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