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Issue: 1004

June 15, 2024

Cover Story

Felon in Chief

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

It is, at best, unseemly for the President of the United States to be a convicted felon.

Now that the former President and the candidate for future President has been convicted of thirty-four felonies, he joins nineteen million other Americans who have such…

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View from the Battlefield

A Convicted Felon Is Running for U.S. President

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

A rich, white man - no matter how vile and unethical - will not suffer the humiliation and injustice that poor and working-class people have endured for generations.

Jokes and memes are flying but there is no humor in a former president being convicted of 34 counts of felony charges for falsifying business records…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

“Lock Her Up” Becomes “Let Me out…!”

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The nation tunes in as Air Force One is temporarily rebranded “Inmate One,” touching down at JFK, before the motorcade takes him to Rikers Island.

Donald Trump was weighed, measured and pounded, and in the end he was found to be guilty of 34 felonies. Within minutes of the verdict being…

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Guest Commentary

SCOTUS Flag Judge

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

they are aggressively promoting their searing and blatant rhetoric and fascist ideology while simultaneously taunting their critics without fear or shame.

Right-wing politicians have made no secret of their disdain for the rule of law as well as our current state of democracy. One of the more…

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Guest Commentary

Student Activism and Palestine

By Jonathan Pulphus Student Guest Commentator

They’ve put their fear to the periphery and picked up the mantle of struggle to demand justice.

Across the nation there’s a collective quaking beneath the feet of students protesting for justice in response to their university’s ties to companies that support militarism:…

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