July 21, 2016
Color of Law
Executive Editor
although the GOP is blatantly homophobic, the Donald used Queen’s “We Are the Champions”
Behold the new Republican Party in all its hot messiness. The first night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland was instructive in telling us everything…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
We have this Democratic president to thank for not only for mandatory life sentences but for doing nothing about the racial disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. This racist policy helped to explode both the state and federal prison populations by sucking up non-violent drug offenders.
The touted so-called progressive platform of the Democrats came out just as all hell was breaking loose. Police in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights killed two…
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Commentary
Columnist
Public education is at a crossroads whereby it will be under further siege if Donald Trump is elected and may be under siege by Hillary Clinton, depending on her VP choice and her own leanings toward public school privatization, especially charter schools, during the administration of her husband and her eight years in the U.S. Senate.
New Jersey Updates: Retribution is a b…h! Gov. Chris Christie’s quest to be Donald Trump’s Vice President (VP) was waylaid by Jared Kushner (husband of Ivanka…
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Commentary
Columnist
technology has run far ahead of our capacity to deal with it, to mull it over, to talk with family, friends, and co-workers or colleagues. That was the main way that people came to a decision on local or national issues before the “information age.” There was time to do that, because things did not come at them in a wall of voices, each one (often) screaming the outlines of a position or opinion.
While millions in the U.S. are riveted to their television sets and other electronic devices to follow every word and phrase of the participants in the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
To be sure, we have come a long way since 1865, since 1876. But the fact that, in contemporary culture, you still have white people who will wrap themselves up in a Confederate flag suggests we have not come quite as far as we must.
After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas. After rouge cops unceremoniously killed two black men, there were five police officers killed by…
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The African World
Editorial Board
Suffer the whips of oppression in silence and everyone loves you. Dare to struggle; dare to reject victimhood, and we become the object of fear and, from the political Right, overt hatred.
When the oppressed are silent and accept their oppression, the mainstream of the oppressor group views them as noble, and sometimes saintly. When they are victimized,…
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