October 27, 2016
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Our people overcame grandfather clauses, voter tests, and all kinds of other nonsense in order to vote. We know rigged elections. We know voter suppression.
I watched the October 19 Presidential debate in both awe and horror. Awe – I truly do not understand Mr. Trumps temerity to lie, interrupt, sniff,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
We had to be engaged, body and soul, willing to be, as Tom was, on the receiving end of a billy club in Mississippi or the insides of a Georgia jail. He inspired me and many others to go to these battlegrounds ourselves and ‘put our bodies on the line.’
I got the news as soon as I awoke Monday. Even though I knew he was seriously ill, it still came as a shock. It seemed…
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Commentary
Columnist
There are those who are working (low wage jobs) well into their eighties, because the meager benefits of Social Security for poverty wage workers is just not enough and the health care benefits of Medicare and Medicaid are just not enough to live a decent life.
A report released last month shows that the gap in wages between white workers and their black counterparts is larger today than it was nearly four…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
The complete guide to how women are paid less than men and why it can’t be explained away
Working women are paid less than working men. A large body of research accounts for, diagnoses, and investigates this “gender pay gap.” But this literature often…
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Commentary
Columnist
public school teachers are in the bullseye of misogyny during the 2016 election season. The Cartel of corporate education reformers has aimed their corporate might at their salaries, pensions, and benefits from coast to coast.
On the education front, Norcross has directed his hand-picked Superintendent, Paymon Rouhanifard, of the Camden City Schools to file tenure charges against dozens of Camden teachers,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
There’s a justifiable fear as-to what deplorable depths the angry WASP population will drag this nation down into. What is America, the land of the free, home of the brave going to transform/regress into?
I’m asking all Americans of color, be you Black, Brown, Red or Yellow, along with American Muslims of all colors and even independent minded, enlightened White…
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