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Issue: 630

November 19, 2015

View from the Battlefield

The Black Man in the Middle: Mizzou throws its racism in the lap of Michael Middleton

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

It was a brilliant move to get the solidarity of the esteemed football players to help focus a spotlight on Mizzou's race problems.

The University of Missouri at Columbia has had plenty of time to get its racist act together. The university received a decade’s notice that change was…

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Relax

Cartoon

Relax

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

What’s Wrong with the Truth?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Police unions with integrity would uplift good officers and criticize bad ones. They’d assert, and then enforce, a code of conduct. They’d say there is zero tolerance to illegal police behavior, and then they’d enforce it.

Award winning film director Quentin Tarantino gets high props for stepping up to tell some truth about the many murders of African Americans at the hands…

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The African World

How Brazil’s War on Drugs Replicates Failed Policies in the United States – The Global African

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR This episode of The Global African features Dr. Carl Hart, neuroscientist at Columbia University, on how the Brazilian government has implemented repressive drug laws that ultimately repeat the same mistakes made in the U.S. - In the second half of the show Mr. Fletcher covers new changes to the Rwandan Constitution that could mean that President Kagame ends up staying on until 2034. What i s driving the push for this term extension?

November 19, 2015 - Issue 630 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; How Brazil’s War on Drugs Replicates Failed Policies In the United States Video is courtesy of…

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Commentary

Connecting the Dots: Cartel Public Education Privatization Surrogates, Part II

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

These Broad bottom feeders are supported by a bevy of Cartel-related consultants whom they reward handsomely with grants, speaking fees, and contracts after they ascend to the superintendent’s office.

The most effective Cartel surrogates, in facilitating public school privatization, have been the Broad-trained and influenced superintendents (hereafter referred to as Broadies). Strategically placed throughout the…

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