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Issue: 655

May 26, 2016

Color of Law

Brazil, the World’s Second-Largest Black Nation, Has Been Taken Over by an All White Male Cabinet — Here’s What’s at Stake for Its Afro-Descendants

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The 1988 Constitution states that the quilombos — the settlements founded by escaped formerly enslaved people — are entitled to collective ownership and the title to the land they have occupied for generations. A reparations movement to force the government to make good on its constitutional promise has grown.

Brazil has the fifth-largest population and the sixth-largest economy in the world. And if the nation’s new government of all white men has its way, Black…

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Commentary

Bernie and the Donald: Angry White Men

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Sanders and Trump have positioned themselves as outsiders, but they want insiders to roll out the red carpet for them because they jumped into a game they haven’t mastered. They haven’t worked at establishing a foundation, but they are demanding the keys to the house.

For all their dueling ideologies, Senator Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin. Both of them are angry,…

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Guest Commentary

The Coming Democratic Crackup

By Robert Parry Guest Commentator

an internecine battle over the party’s soul could deeply divide the Democrats between those supporting Clinton – as “the first woman president” and because of her liberal attitudes on gay rights and other social issues – and those opposing Clinton because of her desire to continue and expand America’s “perpetual wars.”

If the Democratic Party presses ahead and nominates hawkish Hillary Clinton for President, it could recreate the conditions that caused the party to splinter in the…

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Commentary

Canada’s Treatment of Indigenous Peoples is Under UN Scrutiny

By John Funiciello Columnist

Over the long haul, Canada has been convinced to give at least lip service to indigenous peoples of their own country, those called First Nations, but they have not given full consideration to the peoples’ wishes and all is not well in the places where they live,

The northern neighbor of the U.S. is widely known for its manners and its (at least, until recently) generous social programs, in gross contrast to its…

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Commentary

More Rallies for Public Education Are Needed in New Jersey

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

Public education in New Jersey has never been under greater duress. Christie is paying off his political debts to the Cartel by aggressively trying to turn over public education to the corporate sector in both urban and suburban districts.

The rally in Trenton on May 15th needs to be repeated across the state of New Jersey. The Cartel of corporate education reformers is pulling out…

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Commentary

United Methodist Church’s Inhospitality Toward Its LGBTQs

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The UMC is contradictory in its policies concerning LGBTQ worshippers. While it states that we have and are of the same sacred worth as heterosexuals, and that it is committed to the ministry of all people regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation, the church also views queer sexualities as sinful.

The United Methodist Church is in the need of prayer. And, one that emphasizes full inclusion of all its parishioners. At General Conference this month in…

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Commentary

Radio One’s Continued Opposition to DC’s First 100-Watt Community-Based Radio Station – The Other Side of the Tracks B

By Perry Redd Columnist

Despite a nay saying minority, terrestrial radio still exists and continues to be the most accessible form of media. Local radio exists too and can be an equalizer—by-passing corporate, class-conscious gatekeepers. LPFMs empower a community of traditionally marginalized voices—handing them a microphone and a platform.

Some of you may be aware of my involvement with a new low-power FM radio station (LPFM) that received its FCC (Federal Communications Commission) license in…

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Commentary

Celebrating Dr. Martin R. Delany During The Month Of May

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Martin R. Delany (a contemporary of Frederick Douglass and co-founder with Douglass of The North Star Newspaper) was a fearless and independent champion for the cause of our redemption from 1840 until his death in January 1885 at the age of 72.

The use of history as a tool of liberation is an ongoing battle that the African in American Community must come to grips with. Far too…

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