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September 08, 2016

Guest Commentary

Social Protest, Race Consciousness, and Black Athletes

By Al-Tony Gilmore Guest Commentator

The visibility of black athletes through televised sporting events, sports pages, sports news networks, capacity filled stadiums and arenas all across America, and product endorsement and corporate sponsorships, cannot be compared to any other profession, and the cumulative impact is powerful.

Black athletes matter. In fact, however much it may be deplored, they matter and represent more to their race than they should. Of all black professionals,…

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Color of Law

Why We Should All Buy Kaepernick’s Jersey

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Since Kaepernick took a stand and refused to stand for the racist, slavery-glorifying “Star-Spangled Banner,” sales of his jersey have jumped from number 20 to number 1 on the 49ers website.

Colin Kaepernick is a hero for sticking out his neck and standing up — or sitting down — against racial violence. He, like so many of…

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Commentary

Do We Need Another Rosa Moment in 2016?

By Perry Redd Columnist

Kaepernick said it took time for him to decide how to express himself, but he's solidly comfortable with his methodology — even if it costs him endorsements or his spot on the 49ers’ roster (because he is being covertly threatened) — as he attempts to shine yet another light on and race relations and police brutality, specifically.

Some say that history repeats itself, while I say that the song is just very, very long and is still playing. I speak specifically to race…

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Commentary

Trump And Clinton: Swimming Upstream for Black Votes

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The perception that all a white politician needs to do is merely show up the Sunday before the Tuesday we cast our ballots is not only a hackneyed campaign strategy in 2016, it’s also a clear indication that this politician has nary a clue nor a sincere concern for the parishioners he stands before.

Black votes matter! So, too, do the black lives many politicians pander to in order to get them. However, exploiting cultural markers—like Republican presidential hopeful Donald…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Donald Trump: The Most Dangerous White Man Alive

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Donald Trump is Public Enemy #1 as far as most Americans of color should be concerned. matter-of-fact, this sacrilegious, diabolical narcissistic madman honestly has the world’s fate in his little ungodly hands.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous White man alive. Enlighten me as to who can be considered more dangerous, more of a threat to the basic…

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The African World

Ron Nixon’s “Selling Apartheid”: Understanding how myths were manufactured

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Over time the apartheid regime cultivated contacts in the USA and Western Europe. As the book points out, none of these propaganda efforts stopped the death of apartheid, but in reading this story it was difficult to believe that such efforts did not contribute, in various fashions, to lengthening the duration of the regime and its progeny.

Reading Ron Nixon’s Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War (London, UK: Pluto Press, 2016), was like reading a good mystery. It was describing a world…

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Commentary

Peoples of the World Are Rejecting Economic Globalization

By John Funiciello Columnist

They have seen their natural resources taken, their lands taken, and the economies of their countries devastated. They have benefited little from the “development” that is offered by the rich nations that have declared they have come to “help them.”

Earlier this year, Larry Summers wondered in print about why nations around the world are revolting against globalization of their economies and, especially, citizens of the…

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