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December 03, 2015

Commentary

Wal-Mart Employment Policy? – Company Needs To Remove Head From Trash Can

By John Funiciello Columnist

Wal-Mart views its workers: as indentured servants, as chattel in so many ways. People who are desperate for a job that pays even as little as Wal-Mart does, are easily controlled by the threat of losing that wage-slave job.

When it comes to its policy on handling its 1.3 million workers, Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail department store always seems to revert to its old…

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Commentary

Excuse to Go Klan

By Perry Redd Columnist

In the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris, Republicans across the board want to change the rules in the middle of the game. Isn’t it funny how a slew of white corpses turn men into mice?

Isn’t this the strangest thing? Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz joined the chorus of Republican governors vowing to defy the Obama administration’s plan to…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

For Trump’s Black Preachers – It’s a Thin Line between Preaching and Pimpining

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump claims he “saw love in the room.” I’d argue those Black ministers in the room saw thousands of dollar bills. Enough cold-cash to upgrade their Caddies and take a 14-day Eastern Caribbean cruise.

Donald Trump’s willing to out-right purchase as much clout and influence within Black America as he’s calculated he’ll need in-order to pull-off a victory in the…

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Commentary

Free Our Political Prisoners

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The origin of the campaign that has resulted in the more than one hundred women and men who are locked up in America’s prisons as political prisoners, many of them African in Americans, is related to the “secret war” that was waged against the Black Liberation Movement by the FBI.

One of the critical demands of the Reparations Movement is the release of African in America political prisoners. The issue of African in America political prisoners…

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