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September 22, 2016

Color of Law

Terence Crutcher Shooting Reminds Us that Blacks are Treated Worse Than Dogs

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The man needed help, and yet he found himself in a great deal of trouble not of his own doing. They shot him, and then they left him there on the ground — like a dog, or worse than a dog — the way they always leave us when they seek to take us out of this world.

Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was shot to death like a dog by the Tulsa police last Friday. But in America, not even dogs are…

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Commentary

The 2016 U.S. Presidential, NC and NJ Elections: An Inside View

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

For the next six weeks, the presidential race and two state races, North Carolina and New Jersey (whose gubernatorial race will be on the ballot in 2017) will be used as proxies for the privatization threats to public education.

The November 2016 election season at the national and state levels will be the most consequential for public school teachers in a generation. The presidential contest…

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Commentary

Stop the Payday Loan Debt Trap

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

While it is important to curtail payday lending so that low-income borrowers can avoid the debt trap, the longer term solution to the debt trap is better pay for people who could access traditional credit options, or avoid debt altogether, if they earned reasonable pay.

Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that was released on September 13, President…

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Commentary

Right Wing Shills Continue – Anti-Worker Propaganda

By John Funiciello Columnist

The rulers of Corporate America are encouraging workers to do to their fellow workers what they never would tolerate in their own realm. The damage done is that the solidarity of a union is destroyed and the chances of workers’ getting their just wages and benefits are reduced, every time another worker opts out of the union.

If the Koch brothers helped to defend American workers against each other any more than they do, there’s no telling how small an hourly wage would…

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Snakes

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Snakes

By Chuck Siler

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Guest Commentary

Legacy of a Prophet (PBUH)?

By Kevin James Guest Commentator

What makes Islam so attractive to individuals who equate honoring God and His Prophet with carnage? How do we enact a legacy for Prophet Muhammad that affirms life rather than celebrates death?

Note: PBUH is an honorific used for Prophet Muhammad as well as other prophets cited in the Quran that means peace be upon him, and that…

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Commentary

We Must Not Abandon Black Family Life

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Families function in the context of their racial and ethnic identity. This identity is shaped by the historical and external forces of a given society. Although the problems of the Black family appear to be very complex on the one hand, on the other, the problem is very simple.

Since the early 1900s, Black and white scholars have written much on the Black family. When one examines the card catalogue of any library in America…

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