September 03, 2015
Color of Law
Executive Editor
The anti-immigration, anti-Latino fervor among the GOP base comes at a time when the party can least afford it. Trump is the face of the GOP, that raw racism stripped of all its subtleties and code words.
Let’s just cut to the chase with these Republicans and ask some blunt questions: Is being Mexican or Mexican-American the new black? Have they replaced African-Americans…
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The African World
Editorial Board
One can delude one’s self into believing that race can be avoided; but at the most awkward moments, it rears its ugly head and tears movements apart.
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the host of The Global African on Telesur-English This content was originally published by teleSUR at…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
"Her focus on working families and middle class families is great, but she might try to say a word or two about the poor. Poor folks won’t write checks, but if they feel included they can surely vote."
September 03, 2015 - Issue 619 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Will Hillary Prevail? "Her focus on working families and middle class families is great, but she…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
LGBTQ evacuees and their families, many of whom are now internally displaced, faced all kinds of discrimination at the hands of many of the faith-based relief agencies—due to their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.
It has been over a decade now since Hurricane Katrina barreled through New Orleans (NO). Today, much of the Big Easy has gotten its groove back.…
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Commentary
Columnist
There are few practical rights that prisoners have inside any chamber of imprisonment and the last one is the right to refuse to take nourishment.
At the end of July, the Israeli parliament approved the forced feeding of prisoners over the objections of the country’s main medical association and the same…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
People are dying, Daily, But not in passive tense They are killed In police custody
September 03, 2015 - Issue 619 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; People Are Dying A Poem By Joe Navarro People are dying, Daily, But not in passive…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
For the ‘Loss and Damages’ and Reparations to the Nations and Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America suffering from U.S. climate abuses.
The United Nations has established a Green Climate Fund to move at least $100 billion to Third World and oppressed nations to allow them to move…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The liberal elite have no problem with African Americans or other oppressed people as long as we keep our place and don't surpass them ideologically and mentally.
As I watched the blow by blow, word by word coverage of the primary season in America and of the Democratic primaries, I thought that this…
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