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Cover Story

Not Your Ordinary Shutdown – Lives at Risk

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

They are holding government operations hostage because they don’t want to fund policies that can saves lives.

The federal government shut down on October 1, and the impasse between Congressional Democrats and Republicans suggest that this may be a long one. Already, Speaker…

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View from the Battlefield

Beyond the Control of Free Speech

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We who believe in freedom cannot afford to go down alleys and side streets in our struggle for civil and human rights; we must stay on the main road.

The murder of MAGA-mentored youth icon Charlie Kirk intensified the country’s debate on free speech. What it is, who gets it, and who pays the price…

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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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View from the Battlefield

MAGA Blames Political Violence in the U.S. on the Left

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The number of guns exceeds the population in the U.S, and so it comes as no surprise that the country has the highest number of school shootings in the world or that guns are the leading cause of death among our children and adolescents.

Immediately after the fatal shooting of right-wing Charlie Kirk at a rally on the Utah Valley University campus, the Left and Democrats were quickly blamed. Dictator…

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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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Color of Law

Who Were the Sisters Who Stood Up to the Police?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Decades before Black Lives Matter, Black women were showing up, showing out, and showing us how to do it.

In recent years, there was the iconic photo of Ieshia Evans, a Black woman and a nurse from Pennsylvania who stood graceful and silent against a…

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Color of Law

Black People, Be a Part of Something Greater Than Yourself

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Black Lives Matter started with a few sisters and a social media hashtag, and the rest is history.

With inflation, student loans, paying the bills, climate change, police violence and so many other problems we face, there is a tendency to feel helpless and…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The Great White Get-Back: MAGA’s March Toward American Authoritarianism

By Desi Cortez Columnist

It’s yesteryear’s slow-cooked Yankee Pot Roast stew of resentment finally boiling over, and now they’re spooning it onto the nation’s dinner plate and calling it a “return to greatness.”

Fascism has finally made its grand entrance into America - stomping in with jackboots like a villain in a 1957 B-movie, while also sashaying through Blue…

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Cover Story

Reign of Terror

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

In a reign of terror, though, some children are to be cherished and others to be terrorized.

They came to MacArthur Park on horseback and in riot gear, their faces covered and their weapons out. They were part of the Immigration and Customs…

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Cover Story

The Big Ugly Boondogle Cripples Our Future

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

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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