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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

O.J. Is Gone – His Trial Exposed the Large Racial Divide in Our Nation

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

His popularity was such that whenever he walked into restaurants, athletic or other public events, many people stood up and cheered at his presence! And that intense admiration was reciprocated by him.

It did not take long after his death on April 11th that Orenthal James Simpson (better known as OJ Simpson to the public), became the immediate…

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Zombie Tests: Is the SAT Back From the Dead?

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

As some elite colleges resume SAT requirements in admissions, will we ever see an end to the outdated practice of weeding out prospective students on the basis of race, gender, and class?

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of education that advocates had demanded for…

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Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives.

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a…

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Southern Auto Workers Are Rising

By Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes Guest Commentator

More than 10,000 workers at 13 non-union carmakers across two dozen facilities nationwide have signed union cards since last November.

Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama have filed for an election to vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers. Auto workers are gearing up to…

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Reject the Virus of Xenophobia

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

These heroic men who lost their lives were not “poisoning the blood of our country,” rather, on the contrary, they were rejuvenating it!

Leave it up to the political right to attempt to make a cheap attempt to politically as well as perversely capitalize off human tragedy. For most…

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Linguistic Profiling

By Patrice D. Johnson Guest Commentator

Call it TWB - Talking While Black.

Racists have some slippery ways of denying their guilt. When charged with administering job or school application tests that are culturally biased, they claim the tests…

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Kamala Harris – The Best Choice

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

one would be hard pressed to think of a vice president in recent memory who has been placed under such a political microscope.

From the minute President Biden selected her as his running mate in 2020, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense gossip. Indeed, there has been…

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Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S.Davies, CODEPINK Guest Commentators

Serious diplomatic negotiations are now essential to get down to the nitty-gritty of what it will take to bring peace to Ukraine.

President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons package for Ukraine “will…

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Giving the State of the Union Response Is Pretty Much a Thankless Job

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

One thing is for certain, Katie Britt was successful in one manner. She had people talking about her.

It was The Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid’s Tale. For anyone regularly tuned into the world of American politics or popular culture, you are aware of…

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The 2024 Election Is About the Rich Stealing From the Public

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

A fight over extending provisions of Trump’s tax cuts is at stake in November’s election. Ultimately, the race is about money.

There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform law that…

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