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January 21, 2016

Color of Law

New Book Says FBI Was Mastermind Behind MLK Assassination and Its Cover-up

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Stuart Wexler and co-author Larry Hancock delve into the notion of a cover-up into the King assassination. Specifically, they allege that the FBI under Clarence Kelly, Hoover’s successor, misled Congress by destroying files related to the murder of King.

As the nation celebrated what would have been Martin Luther King’s 87th birthday on January 15, we must ask some questions: What role did the FBI…

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Commentary

David A. Love, BC Executive Editor, on Al Jazeera English discussing diversity and the Oscars – Video

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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The African World

Standing Against the Right

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Right-wing populism cannot be written off as irrelevant lunacy, despite its irrationalism. It is a powerful social movement that represents danger to progress wherever it raises its ugly head. For forces on the Left, the challenge is how to combat this phenomenon?

Right-wing populism is dangerous in its irrationalism. As one can observe in the Donald Trump campaign, Trump has never been constrained by facts or the truth.…

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Commentary

Class Act, Crass Responses – The State Of The Union Address

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

While President Obama exuded nothing but class, it was amazing to watch the very crass House Speaker Paul Ryan behaving like a bored child. He was mostly inexpressive, but he also fidgeted, rolled his eyes, and at one point put his hand to his nose (I think – maybe he was picking it), as if he could not be but so bothered.

President Obama did his thing when he delivered the State of the Union Address (SOU) on Tuesday night. There was confidence in his speech, some off-the-cuff…

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Commentary

Bathroom Laws Policing Our Genitals

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Across the country, amped-up fear-mongering of the 'predatory heterosexual male pervert' or 'Peeping Tom' has either halted or canned movement forward in getting needed transgender public accommodations bills passed.

Conservatives have always been a demographic group obsessed with policing this nation’s genitals. They feel comfortable with ordinances that mandate, what they do, how we use…

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Commentary

Walmart Cancels Plans For Stores In D.C., Blames Higher Minimum Wage

By John Funiciello Columnist

Walmart’s model is to squeeze the last penny out of any local economy and they have done it by finishing off the small businesses, wherever they decide to put one of their stores or supercenters. But a new day seems to be dawning for the biggest retailer on earth.

Pity poor Walmart. Its plans for big stores in the Washington, D.C., area have been changed and it will not build two of the supercenters it…

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Commentary

Connecting the Dots: Cartel Privatization Surrogate Rahm Emanuel Being Deserted by Hillary and Obama, Part VIII

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

The Obama brain trust has concluded that Emanuel has to go. They are joined in this view by Cartel members and the Chicago business community whose profit margins have been and are being substantially hurt by this ongoing crisis.

The push back against Cartel member Eli Broad’s proposal that would move fifty percent of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) 650,000 students into corporate…

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Commentary

Punked By a Predator

By Perry Redd Columnist

Payday loans are an abusive form of lending that traps borrowers into an unending spiral of debt—a losing proposition for any American borrower.

I had a recent experience with a well-known corporate giant that burned me up—after they burned me. I rented a car from Enterprise Rideshare—my first with…

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