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Issue: 669

October 06, 2016

Cover Story

2016 State Elections and the Corporate Charter School Surge

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

Billionaires Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft founders; Alice Walton of the Walmart fortune; Doris Fisher, a philanthropist; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; and several other Cartel members are pouring more than a billion dollars into the 2016 presidential, U.S. House and Senate, state legislative, and school board elections to place corporate charter schools on a glide path. They aim to gain ground irrespective of who wins the White House.

New Jersey and National Political Update: In response to Phil Murphy’s leap to first place over Sen. Steve Sweeney in the race to secure the 2017…

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Blind Man

Cartoon

Blind Man

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Why Are The Poor Unmentionable?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Clinton and Trump aren’t the only ones who avoid highlighting hunger and poverty when issues of economic inequality are discussed. When Vice-President Joe Biden was charged with focusing on the middle class in his “Middle Class Task Force” early in the Obama Administration, there was a conspicuous silence about the status of the poor. While President Obama has lots of issues to deal with, the poor have not been a priority for him.

There is no question that Hillary Clinton “won” the September 26 Presidential debate. She was knowledgeable, composed, unflappable, and occasionally even funny. Her opponent, who had…

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Commentary

Whatever Happened to the “WAR On Poverty?”

By John Funiciello Columnist

Any number of analyses of the anti-poverty programs show that they did work, but in the past 30 years, the relentless attacks on social programs in favor of the military, defense, and the country’s seemingly endless wars have taken their toll. There has been less and less support for policies and programs that benefit the people, especially those in most need.

In all of the bluster and rhetoric that has been spewed during the presidential primary campaigns and the current campaign between the Democratic and Republican nominees,…

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Color of Law

NC governor Pat McCrory proves just how little he cares about black lives

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

we should not be surprised that Pat McCrory shows nothing but utter disrespect for black people in his state and cannot even bring himself to acknowledge the death of a black man by police or say his name, speaking instead of floods and fuel shortages.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory held a press conference and removed any doubt that he cares little to nothing about black people. He disrespected and dismissed…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Donald Trump: White Trash With Money

By Desi Cortez Columnist

King Trump is only slightly-more than a high-falutin carnival barker, a “confidence man” dealing in commercial real estate while dabbling down across the river in the trailer park with pro wrestling and the Roller Derby good ol’ boys. Honestly, the grandiose reality show, beauty Pageant pimp con-game he rolled into was a-step-up for Trump.

I don’t know about anyone else in the country, but I want to personally “thank” Donald Trump for being the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic elitist…

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Commentary

Love and Violence in Black LGBTQ Communities

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

October is Domestic Awareness Month, and within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color, not enough attention, education, intervention and advocacy is given to this issue.

Note: the names are fictional and the couple described is a composite of numerous couples I counseled on inter-personal violence (IPV) The Jills were the envy…

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Commentary

Ideas and Black Nationalism

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Black Nationalism is a tradition that emerged in the early nineteenth-century among those Black leaders who understood the need for African people in America to develop a national entity as the only solution for Black people in North America, Latin America, or the Caribbean.

One of the biggest challenges African people face in America is to rejuvenate Black Nationalist thinking as struggle to determine for ourselves as a people what…

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