658 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Orlando – Targeted Act of a Terrorist’s Hate

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Sadly, we can’t change the hearts of people, like Mateen, as quickly as we would like to. However, we can change his behavior or, at least, make him accountable for his behavior with laws in place to protect not only himself but also the American citizenry.

June is LGBTQ pride month and parades and festivities abound month-long. Pride 2016 is particularly important because it marks the one-year anniversary of “Obergefell v. Hodges,”…

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Color of Law

How will elected officials respond to the horrific Orlando shooting?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

“It’s time for Congress to finally act on gun violence and ban military-style weapons, put limits on clips and magazine sizes, ban those on the terrorist watchlist from purchasing firearms and require background checks on all gun sales. We know that the shooter in Orlando used a high-powered weapon that allowed him to fire a large number of bullets in rapid succession,”

There has been another mass shooting, this time at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It’s the deadliest in U.S. history, not to mention the worst terrorist…

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Cartoon

Orlando Massacre

By Zapiro

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Commentary

Reflections on African Liberation Day 2016

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

The global capitalist crisis has pointed out clearly that Africans cannot restructure their economies without a fundamental shift of global power. At present the African descendants have the moral authority to oppose capitalism and through the Global Reparations movement they are calling for reparative justice and for a restructuring of the international economic system.

This year the celebration of African Liberation Day of May 25 took place with the energy of the new Pan African force that emerged in all…

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Commentary

PC Attack

By Perry Redd Columnist

Political Correctness is a necessary remedy in a country with such a sordid history; one that has enslaved humans based on skin color, or denied Constitutional protections to those not of the dominant culture.

For years, I have watched and listened to political conservatives attack the concept of Political Correctness (PC), a term that has become an accepted part of…

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Commentary

What We Should Know About Corporate Education Reformers and the Undermining of Teachers

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

the Cartel uses its communications unit to ensure that charter schools are referred to as “high performing and/or high quality” irrespective of their academic outcomes, fraud, and dismissal of students whom they claim are not a good fit.

Update: Rev. Jevon Caldwell-Gross who was recently appointed to the Montclair, NJ School Board by Mayor Robert Jackson was alleged to be ineligible for the appointment…

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The African World

Voter Repression Is a Serious Problem: It Is Time for a New Freedom Summer

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

the waves of assaults by the Republicans have not ceased and, with the crippling of the Voting Rights Act, the blood lust of the Republicans has become enhanced. For these reasons, the approach of progressives towards voter suppression needs to be reconsidered.

I found myself reading about the impact of voter suppression, i.e., the efforts to inhibit voter registration and voter participation that have been orchestrated by Republican-dominated…

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Guest Commentary

The Centrality of Palestine – Sanders Moderate Decency Exposes Clinton’s Brutal Xenophobia

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

Sanders documents the unbearable poverty that Israel, one of the richest and most conspicuous consumption nations in the world, is imposing on the Palestinians. How sad, if transparent, that in front of AIPAC, Secretary Clinton compared herself to a war-hawk who tried to seize the Suez Canal, undermine the self-determination of Egypt, and threaten to provoke a world war.

Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.” The BDS call was…

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Commentary

Muhammad Ali Did Not “TRANSCEND” Race

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

White people must think it some kind of compliment to say someone “transcended” race. I consider it an insult. Race is nothing that someone has to overcome, or “rise above”. Race is not an impediment. It is simply a fact.

Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he…

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Commentary

Remembering Kwamé Turé

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Most people throughout the world began to hear of Kwam� (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s where he participated in the first Freedom Rides and many sit-ins and marches.

Kwam� Tur� (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) was born on June 29, 1941 in Trinidad. He moved to New York with his parents at a young age. We…

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