July 07, 2016
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
This commentary is about an exhibit by BC Cartoonist/Artist Eric Garcia at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago
When I meet Garcia at his solo exhibition Operation Mom’s Couch at the National Veterans Art Museum, he narrates his family story as a way of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The Supreme Court protected the right of women and families to make their own choices. And it did so by reminding us that facts are real. Science is real. Evidence is real. And it can’t be willfully ignored or tarnished or fabricated to advance anti-choice ideology that erodes the constitutional right to reproductive health care.
June 27, 2016 the Supreme Court delivered a resounding and badly needed victory for reproductive health and rights. In doing so, it also restored scientific facts…
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Commentary
Columnist
Can you stomach any more bad news? Here goes… While raising the minimum wage will certainly help to reduce some of the burden on workers, they still won’t be able to “afford” rent by the government’s standards.
The next time you hear someone moaning about Democrats trying to increase the minimum wage, hit him with this fact: There is nowhere in the United…
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Commentary
Columnist
Reparations for the repair of the damages inflicted on African people as a result of our enslavement in the western hemisphere should be the key issue we fight for during this Presidential election cycle.
During this Presidential election cycle the issue of reparations for African people in America should be raised just like all the other interest groups raise their…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Apparently, it matters little even as Black people do the right thing, stay calm and comply with the authorities, when the police already have anticipated and planned their killing. Complying with the police will not necessarily keep you safe when the police are complying with white supremacy and racial violence, and see a criminal in the eyes of every Black man, woman and child they encounter.
What happens when you have two people, a Black man and a white police officer — both nervous — and the one with the authority is…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
In the US, we have a demagogue who is exhorting people to “leave” our diversity reality by embracing his cause and conveying his vote. The media has been an unindicted co-conspirator on this Trump crusade, because he has garnered far more visibility than he deserves.
The day after 52 percent of the people who voted that Britain should leave the European Union, Google was deluged with questions. The most common –…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
while these Black men generating revenue for professional basketball are millionaires, they are regarded as high-priced slaves on a plantation, and expected to know their place and behave as such.
When Lebron James and other Black athletes assert their independence and leave their team — or the plantation — some white fans engage in 21st-century lynch…
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