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September 29, 2016

Color of Law

Trump-tanic – GOP Candidate’s Campaign is Sinking Fast

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

In the current election season, Donald Trump has brought the same vitriol, raw hate and division with his promise to build a wall and expel the undocumented Mexican immigrants, and his vow to throw all Muslims out of the country. And for black people, let them have more police brutality.

If you watched the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, you know one thing’s for sure: Trump is a loser. Last night, the…

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The Debates

Cartoon

The Debates

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Why “Blue Lives Matter” is really#BadApplesMatter – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

Based on increased police shootings of blacks over the past couple of years I am surprised no one is mentioning or suggesting a tie between police and the not-so-secret government mind-control/time-delay assassin program known as MK-Ultra.

What no one is really saying about old-line cops, is that they are really outdated appendages. They have been the key beneath the dichotomy of black…

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Commentary

Partial Tapes Are Too Little, Too Late

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

We don’t have tape of the police brutality that caused so many black deaths in the early and mid twentieth century. We know the brutality existed, and we know police officers were never charged “back in the day” for killing or torturing Black people. The fact that we didn’t have tape then contributes to the urgency that we get tape now.

Keith Lamont Scottwas killed by a police officer on Tuesday, September 20, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The officer, dressed in civilian clothing, said that Mr. Scott…

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View from the Battlefield

Nothing Concedes Power Without Organization

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Protests have become the strategy and not a tactic; they have become the destination and not the vehicle to the destination. I think this is a dangerous precedent for the movement to protect and respect Black lives.

When the Ferguson Uprising was unfolding, just about two years ago, I sent out a plea through social media and allies for people across the country…

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Commentary

Ending Welfare As We Know It, But Not Really

By Dr. James Jennings, PhD Editorial Board

it should now be clear that welfare reform had little to do with fighting or reducing poverty. According to interests who supported this legislation the key problem was “dependency.”

The twentieth year anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (1996) has spurred a boom let of articles and reflections about federal legislation to…

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Commentary

Why Is There A “LOOMING Teacher Shortage?”

By John Funiciello Columnist

teachers are paid considerably less than others who have the same level of education and experience. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), reported in August, “Since 1996, teachers’ weekly wages have decreased $30 per week (adjusted for inflation) while all college graduates’ average weekly wages have increased $124.”

In the past several weeks, there have been reports in the press and in newspaper editorials, trying to wrestle with the problem of a teacher shortage…

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Commentary

2016 Fight for Public Education in the States

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

In its latest show of force, the Cartel had 160 of its African American grantees write a letter to the National NAACP demanding that it rescind its moratorium on the opening of new charter schools in any state in the nation.

Political Update: Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop announced yesterday that he would no longer pursue the 2017 New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nomination and will instead throw…

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