September 10, 2015
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Can race be a factor? What happens when mental illness collides with racial rage? The man who shot Alison Parker and Adam Ward either experienced or perceived racial slights.
Alison Parker, a rookie news reporter at WDJB, the Roanoke, Virginia CBS affiliate, had turned 24 just days before she was murdered on August 26. Her…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Cambridge is no doubt a progressive city. However, when you scratch below Cambridge’s surface the city maintains its race and class boundaries not by designated “colored” water fountains, toilets or restaurants, but rather by its zip codes...
Over the Labor Day weekend my spouse and I went to the Apple Cinema in Cambridge to see the much talked about N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
How condescending it is for a politician to tell suffering, oppressed people how to respond to their victimization, that they should engage in their activism in a docile, peaceful, and non-threatening manner — to white folks, that is.
Gov. Nikki Haley, and all other politicians, take note: It is not your job to tell the Black Lives Matter movement what it should or should…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Yes we both know Trump’s base consists of angry White folks from all walks of life - the "Silent Majority" who’ve had to be dragged, kickin’, screamin’, clawin’ and cryin’ into this era of "light" integration, inclusion and diversity.
Donald Trump’s shocking the you know what out of the well-educated yet extremely naive liberal goody two-shoes political types on MSNBC. Apparently they’re non-versed in the…
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Commentary
Columnist
The U.S. does not admit mistakes, it does not apologize, and it does not pay for what it has broken. The Bush-Cheney Administration simply proves that, if the crime is big enough, you can get away with it.
It is rare that a public lie can live on for more than a decade, despite its having been proven to be a lie multiple times…
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Commentary
Columnist
Black men accounted for 30 percent of the unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the US population! You do the math...the analysis shows that Black men were seven times more likely than white men to die by police gunfire while unarmed.
There comes a time when truths of the day must be told…from where the grass has no green. In the prophetic words of Malcolm X, quoting…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
"EPI’s new report on the productivity–pay gap found that from 2000 to 2014, net productivity grew by 21.6 percent, while the typical worker’s hourly compensation (wages and benefits) grew by just 1.8 percent."
September 10, 2015 - Issue 620 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Gap Between Productivity and Pay Continues to Widen By Josh Bivens and Larry Mishel "EPI’s new…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
How long can we ignore the raw hatred of civilian populations living in constant fear of mini-9/11s from drone strikes that kill innocent civilians and poison their land with depleted uranium?
I searched for a vantage point with which to resolve my crisis in faith. This led me to revisit the Quran’s conflicted phenomenal and political nuances…
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