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October 08, 2015

Sharp n’ Blunt

Ben Carson – The White Man’s Negro

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black Ben is capable of performing unbelievably complicated brain surgeries, then exit the operating room, step in front of the cameras, don his white gloves, cane, top-hat n’ tails . . and do a little “jig” for his snow white audiences.

Dr. Ben Carson; He’s both a brilliant brain surgeon, and a handy, convenient ignoramus. Almost simultaneously, ol’ Black Ben is capable of performing unbelievably complicated brain…

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View from the Battlefield

The Ferguson Commission Report

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

"The lack of visible, tangible commitment of time, resources, and most critical, the political influence to make it happen is a clear sign that the racial justice movement is going to have an uphill battle to get accountability and cooperation."

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Color of Law

Gun Worshippers Don’t Want Obama in Roseburg

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

if President Obama dares to discuss the pathological crisis of guns when people are killed by guns — as he is entitled as the leader of the nation — the gun rights extremists want to change the subject.

Gun worshipers don’t want President Obama in Roseburg, Oregon, when he visits on Friday in response to the recent massacre at Umpqua Community College, and they…

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Commentary

Black Mass and Christopher Cerf’s Educational Violence Against New Jersey’s Public Schools, Part I – The Farrell Report Defending Public Education

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

Cerf also developed a portfolio management model which he designed to place traditional public schools, voucher schools, and charter schools on equal footing.

Last weekend, I went to see Black Mass, the movie about Boston’s 20th century crime boss, James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger, a vicious, charming “hit man” who,…

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Commentary

With “Right-To-Work” Laws, Workers Know What The 1 Percent Is Doing

By John Funiciello Columnist

Plutocrats see the union movement and the social programs that came out of the struggle of workers and their unions as a pot of money that could be turned to profit…their profit.

They can’t fool all of the workers all of the time, but they’re trying. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take up a case that…

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Commentary

Domestic Violence Lives On the “down low” in LGBTQ Communities of Color

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Statistics estimate that 25-33 percent of the LGBTQ population will experience some form of partner abuse or domestic violence in their lifetime.

October is “Coming Out Month,” and it is also Domestic Awareness Month. Within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color, not enough information…

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Commentary

Ken Bridges And MATAH

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

“MATAH was an economic movement of self determination for Africans in America and around the world.”

On Friday, October 11, 2002, the leaders of the National Black United Front, from around the country, began arriving in Kansas City, Missouri for our Fall…

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