January 14, 2016
Cover Story
Editorial Board
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) is one of the organizations that advocate a fair chance for returning felons through “ban the box” legislation that prevents employers from asking questions about criminal record on employment applications.
Florida Senator and Presidential candidate Marco Rubio can’t get a break. He is being slammed for missing Senate floor votes, scorned for poor poll showings (and…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
King was a democratic socialist who thought that only "drastic reforms" involving the "radical reconstruction of society itself" could "save us from social catastrophe"?
One of the many disturbing characteristics of dominant American ideology is the way it deletes radical-democratic beliefs from the official memory of certain acknowledged great historical…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
As I comb through numerous books and essays learning more about King’s philandering, sexist attitude about women at home and in the movement, and his relationship with Bayard Rustin, I, too, wonder would King today be a public advocate for LGBTQ rights?
This MLK holiday reminds me how Alabama has always been a troubling state when it comes to upholding the civil rights of its denizens. Martin Luther…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Trump’s consistent placement at the top of the field of Republican presidential candidates is a testament to the appeal he makes to racism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and Islamophobia. In other words, Trump succeeds because of — not in spite of — his race baiting.
‘I am William Johnson, a farmer and a white nationalist. Support Donald Trump. I paid for this through the super PAC. [Telephone] (213) 718-3908. This call…
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Commentary
Columnist
At issue in Flint is the lead contamination of the city’s water supply, the result of an arbitrary switch from Detroit water, to water from the Flint River, which is widely known as polluted with quantities of toxins that have been dumped there over generations.
In one of the most egregious acts by public officials in choosing budget-cutting over public health, Republican decision-making in Michigan is responsible for lead contamination in…
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The African World
Editorial Board
January 14, 2016 – Issue 636 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Black Politics Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Mr. Fletcher talks to Lester Spence about the rise of Neoliberalism in Black Politics. Additionally, Fletcher talks to Wahleah Johns & Bill Gallegos about the recently completed COP21.
January 14, 2016 - Issue 636 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Black Politics Video is courtesy of The Global African & teleSUR Mr. Fletcher…
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