October 22, 2015
Color of Law
Executive Editor
In this campaign season, the GOP establishment finds itself on its way to losing the presidential election, and rightfully so, short of stealing it outright or preventing enough blacks and Latinos from voting.
Now is the time to put the Republican Party out of its misery. The fractured GOP is turning into a nightmare for the establishment, country club…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Senator Bernie Sanders was the only one who uttered the words, “institutional racism”. Whatever the Black Lives Matter team said to him in back in August, it took. He invoked Sandra Bland, the woman who supposedly hanged herself in Texas, and talked about mass incarceration.
In contrast to the most entertaining Republican Presidential candidate debate, the first Democratic Presidential candidate debate was more absorbing. We heard from grownups that refrained from…
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The African World
Editorial Board
October 22, 2015 – Issue 626 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; The Global African Climate Awareness & Update on Puerto Rico Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR A unique tour bus of musicians, actors, activists and poets have been touring major cities to bring awareness of climate change’s disproportionate affect on people of…
October 22, 2015 - Issue 626 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; The Global African Climate Awareness & Update on Puerto Rico Video is courtesy of The Global…
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Commentary
Columnist
Fast food workers, car wash workers, retail workers, and others have been fighting for better pay and working conditions, as well as a $15 minimum wage. In many ways, they have been successful in approaching that goal, but they are not in unions, yet.
As newspaper staff levels have dropped precipitously over the past few years, the quality of most dailies has dropped at about the same rate. Without staff,…
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Commentary
Columnist
The Palestinians have taken the greater share of the losses…but they’re still fighting. The Intifada is alive—and swelling. Oppression does that.
You can feel the tremor…America knows it’s well overdue. Many have prophesied a “revolution,” but for all the wrong reasons. Many have mischaracterized the agents of…
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Commentary
Columnist
the most serious issue facing public education stakeholders is their belief that since public education, as presently constituted, has always been around, it will be around in the future.
A Cartel of right-leaning corporations, foundations, Wall Street hedge fund managers, and wealthy individuals has geared up for an aggressive pursuit to privatize urban and suburban…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
Introduction Leaders across the political spectrum agree: The United States must end mass incarceration. But how? What bold solutions will achieve this change? Our prison crisis has many causes. One major contributor: a web of perverse financial incentives across the country that spurred more arrests, prosecutions, and prison sentences. A prime example is the 1994…
Introduction Leaders across the political spectrum agree: The United States must end mass incarceration. But how? What bold solutions will achieve this change? Our prison crisis…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
This blatant defiance and disrespect of male-authority brands her as a ‘headache n’ a handful’ in most simpleminded, small-minded caveman’s view who populate the Republican TEA Party.
As far as White men are concerned, “betrayal” is a “bitch.” And that “bitch” has a name - Hillary. Listen to them . . . I…
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