1047 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Far Right Blames Left for Minnesota Shootings

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

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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Cartoon

Statue of Bigotry

By Mark Hurwitt

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Guest Commentary

Martial Law in the United States

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

In South Korea, martial law was undone by public protest. In the United States, Trump will reverse the equation and use martial law to overcome public protest.

The Trump administration has sidelined Congress, violated the U.S. Constitution, and taken an axe to both the U.S. and the global economies. Trump has issued executive…

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Color of Law

Scholar and Educator Octavius Catto

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

As a political and civil rights leader, he engaged in civil disobedience to bring about equal access for African-Americans on the Philadelphia trolley car system - a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, as part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott organized by Martin Luther King and others.

A full century before the Civil Rights movement, and 150 years before the present-day movement for racial and social justice, there was Octavius Valentine Catto. His…

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Guest Commentary

How Trump Betrayed Workers by Gutting the Inflation Reduction Act

By David McCall Guest Commentator

Trump claims to want to build manufacturing power and make more products domestically. But that’s just more of his empty bluster.

Federal officials, then-Governor of Indiana Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives, and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg Materials in Mitchell, Indiana, last year to celebrate…