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Issue: 1057

October 2, 2025

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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Color of Law

Why Not Blame It on a Black Man?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

in a nation where the color of your skin can determine where you live, your livelihood and even your life or death, parents of color may feel the need to help their children navigate through a color-coded society fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.

I just read a pilot study that CNN released on the racial attitudes of children. And nearly 60 years after the watershed Brown v. Board of…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

America Is Lost

By Desi Cortez Columnist

greatness isn’t a birthright but a practice.

America - the White man’s America, the stars-and-bars-in-the-garage America, the citizens who kneel before Trump like he’s Caesar at a NASCAR tailgate - you are lost.…

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Commentary

Parents Who Teach Racial Equality

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Civil-rights advocates and journalists called the sermon out for what it is, what it is, rabid, racial fear-mongering packaged as parental advice, while researchers warned that preaching bogus “crime math” fuels division and can green-light discrimination in everyday life.

Recently, a Texas “Christian” minister has caused considerable consternation and has found himself under fierce and frantic fire after informing White parents they’re “failing” their kids…

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Commentary

Who Gains When the Economy Implodes?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The much-reported fact that Black women lost more than 300,000 jobs in the past several month trickles down to students whose tuition may be unpaid, families who spiral down to instability, and communities in crisis.

The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not performing…

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Guest Commentary

32% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. Most Media Outlets Will Not Say So

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

Looking at males, aged 18-59, veterans are well over twice, maybe over three times as likely to be mass shooters compared with the group as a whole. And they shoot somewhat more fatally.

Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each recently, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina.…

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