January 28, 2016
Cover Story
Columnist
The annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors was in many respects a gathering of the Cartel’s majority and minority disciples.
The U.S Conference of Mayors met in Washington, D.C. for two days last week, and a group of race and gender diverse mayoral surrogates for Cartel…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
In 2010, the UN General Assembly said that access to clean and safe water is a human right, noting, “Everyone has the right to water, no matter where s/he lives.” The UN has said that they will monitor the progress of nations in providing water and sanitation. Maybe the UN should come and monitor Flint.
Days before the opening of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam, the international organization that works on world poverty issues, released a report that addressed inequality. They…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
the sentence of juvenile life without parole, or JLWOP, is reserved mostly for Black youth. In 2008, Human Rights Watch said that 60 percent of prisoners serving JLWOP are Black, almost all male. And while Black juveniles are 17 percent of youth nationwide, they are 30 percent of those arrested and 62 percent of those tried as adults, according to Real Clear Policy. Moreover, JLWOP is an exclusively American form of punishment found in no other nation on Earth, and it is repudiated by international human rights law.
In the area of juvenile justice, the week has been pivotal in protecting the rights and humanity of young prisoners, with an important ruling from the…
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The African World
Editorial Board
On the day that the storm hit i found myself wondering about the homeless people i ran across who were camped out and where they would end up, or, for that matter, whether they would survive.
Every so often the Washington, DC area gets hit with a mega-storm. Well, that certainly happened on Friday night and Saturday. It was more than intense.…
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Commentary
Columnist
The overriding reason for importing labor is that it can be cheap. And, if many are not documented, they are not likely to take to the U.S. courts for justice in pay, injury on the job, or for any other ill that has befallen them while they have toiled to make America the strong economy that it is, even if it can be described as strong only for the rich and the corporations.
It was bound to happen. The Disney Corporation last year fired hundreds of its techs in Orlando, Florida, and replaced them with skilled foreign workers, presumably…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Pope Francis continues to send seismic shock waves across the globe with his liberal-leaning pronouncements, but the pontiff is complicated, if not confusing, to the LGBTQ community.
Italy is one of the major European countries that don’t recognize marriage equality for its LGBTQ denizens in spite of the fact that the majority of…
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Guest Commentary
Student Guest Commentator
While the idea of prestigious universities being in the middle of extremely low income communities may not seem like a necessarily bad—though certainly questionable—thing, the larger issues become apparent when you look at the relationships between many of these universities and their home cities.
Rutgers University takes up a little less than half of the City of New Brunswick. Despite the wealth that it has, as a higher education institution…
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Commentary
Columnist
Through the African Centered Education Movement, African American History Month has now become the catalyst for the intense study of Africa and the history of African people throughout the world 365 days a year.
The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning…
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