610 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Calling Young Leaders To Stop The Violence

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

I’m willing to stop preaching when young leaders step up. I applaud the Black Lives Matter movement, and am excited when those who are of not African descent join this movement. Still, I am waiting for the same young leaders to demand that their peers stop killing each other.

I only recently embraced my status as an “elder”. Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder”, eager enough to take one of those lovely over…

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Cartoon

Gas Attack

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Texas Pool Party Incident Shows That Jim Crow’s ‘Black Codes’ May Still Be In Effect

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

exactly what did these kids do to deserve this treatment? Apparently, if there are too many black folks around, and white people get antsy and feel threatened, that is more than enough cause for arrest.

Swimming while black is a crime? Or having a black pool party? Maybe the police in Texas have lost their minds. Then again, maybe the Lone…

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View from the Battlefield

FOP Fosters ‘Us Vs. Them’ Mentality

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The demoralization that is taking place in the police rank and file is not so much because of citizen efforts demanding accountability and fairness. It’s also because police leadership is bent on maintaining a white supremacist militarized force that is not beholding to anyone.

The “Blue Alert” Law recently signed by President Obama has the FOP’s fingerprints all over it. The Fraternal Order of Police is the world’s largest organization…

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The African World

Building People Power: What Clues Can History Offer?” – Keynote Speech – Video – Justice Works 2015

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

June 11, 2015 – Issue 610 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; Building People Power What Clues Can History Offer?” Keynote Speech Justice Works 2015 “Why do so many people refuse to resist and rise up in the face of clear examples of repression and degradation?” On May 30 & 31, 2015, 600 of New York’s top…

June 11, 2015 - Issue 610 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Building People Power What Clues Can History Offer?" Keynote Speech Justice Works 2015 "Why do so…

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Who’s Islamic

By Carlos Latuff

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Commentary

The McKinney Power Grab

By Perry Redd Columnist

For white Americans—in this instance, those in that Dallas suburb community—who believe that the police were justified, know that they still favor segregated pools, schools and communities—and those same people run afoul of today’s interpretation of the US Constitution.

We often think of the term “power grab” when speaking of political coups in Latin American “banana republics,” but I want to share its use in…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

How Long Before The Trees Begin To Bear Strange Fruit Again?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

tomorrow looks bleak my friend. We are headed the way of Native Americans. 50 years from now 75% of Blacks will be housed on urban reservations.

How would White policemen treat Blacks, Latinos, Indians, Asians and Arabs, i.e., fellow Americans-Of-Color if they could, say . . . do as they please? I’d…

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Guest Commentary

Former US Attorney General Files Brief in Federal Lawsuit Challenging Legality of Iraq War

By Inder Comar, JD, U.S. Labor Against the War Guest Commentator

case alleges that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz committed aggression in planning and waging the Iraq War. Specifically, the lawsuit claims that high-ranking Bush officials used the fear of 9/11 to mislead the American public into supporting a war against Iraq, and that they knowingly issued false statements that Iraq was in league with Al-Qaeda and had weapons of mass destruction.

Sundus Shaker Saleh, through her pro bono counsel Comar Law, filed papers last Wednesday, May 27, 2015 urging the Ninth Circuit to review facts and statements…

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Issue: 610