662 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Why Police Murders are a Logical Next Step

By Perry Redd Columnist

The killing of Black men by white police (or police, period) is a multi-layered problem of a critical degree. The clear differentiation in the use of force against Blacks and whites in America is an issue; an issue of disparity, an issue of inequality, an issue of injustice.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve written about men, who look like me, unjustly being gunned down by police…and it’s a mentally fatiguing…

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Cartoon

Gun Sales

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Color of Law

Diamond Reynolds represents that unique strength found in black women

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

If you don’t know who she is, I speak of the black woman in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, who livestreamed the aftermath of the shooting death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile. And she did it while in the car, with the police officer who just pumped four bullets into her man’s body pointing the same gun to her face, with her 4-year-old daughter sitting in the backseat the whole time.

We need to talk about Diamond Reynolds. Diamond Reynolds is my hero, and she should be yours too. She is every black woman, and she spoke…

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Commentary

Hate, Hypocrisy And Hubris

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

After witnessing an execution, and clearly not armed, why was Diamond Reynolds forced onto her knees and handcuffed? Did that sick white police officer think he was a god that had to be knelt to, paid homage to? He already had a license to kill. I guess a badge also gives you a license to humiliate.

Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie”, our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate”…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Uniformed Cops with Guns – Symbolic of Absolute, Audacious White Power. To Hell With Ol’ Glory and a Bald Eagle

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Inferior educations, no jobs, cutthroat capitalism at play, societal exclusion and police brutality translates into millions of Black folks who with little to no hope of a better tomorrow just don’t give a damn - then there’s nothing to gain and not a damn thang to lose.

One must ponder, and I do, could this nation, and specifically “White America” be honestly, legitimately “shocked” by the tragic police murders in Dallas? Let me…

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Cartoon

Rolling Blackout

By Mr. Fish Cartoonist and writer

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Commentary

Is The U.S.A. In a Free-Fall?

By John Funiciello Columnist

As always, the new wealth in the country is going to the wealthiest and the disparity in wealth and income is growing with no sign of slowing down. That does not leave much for the majority of the people. For those in the lower one-third of the population in income are for the most part not even able to think about college for their kids, buying a house, taking time off from their two or three minimum wage jobs.

It isn’t just the far Right Wing in the U.S. that believes that the nation is unraveling, if not headed for collapse, but the same rightists…

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Commentary

White LGBTQ Community, I need your help against police harassment!

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

“This is a time when we need the community front and center in this struggle for both our survival and change, because their African-American LGBTQ brothers and sisters stood by you with marriage equality and other issues. We need now you front and center because we are hurting.”

I am always worried to the point of nail-biting when my spouse leaves in the morning for Boston Medical Center if she’ll return home to me,…

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Commentary

The Cartel Places Heavy Responsibilities on Teachers

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

teachers are placed in an impossible situation whereby they are required, if not mandated, to overcome the poverty of their students while they are denied the resources necessary to even begin to address this issue. While under-resourced, they are held to the highest standards and demonized for not meeting them.

New Jersey Updates: Lawrence Hamm, a long-time Montclair resident, received the 2016 Human and Civil Rights Award at the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) Delegate Assembly during…

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Guest Commentary

Me and Jesse Williams: The Organizer, The Celebrity, and You

By Channing Martinez Guest Commentator

His great sense of oratory and his access to high visibility platforms could be of such help to us—and many other civil rights, Black, Latino, anti-war, and climate justice groups in the U.S. and internationally.

Thanks Jesse Williams. It took a lot of bravery for you to get up at the BET Awards Ceremony and give a speech filled with anger…

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Issue: 662