673 – Black Commentator

Color of Law

Don’t get it twisted: This woman is the real face of voter fraud in America

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Terri Rote, was arrested for voter fraud for attempting to vote at two polling places in Des Moines. Rote has the distinction of becoming the first person charged with voter fraud this campaign season, in an election marked by Trump’s mantra that the election is rigged.

Behold, the real face of voter fraud in America — a white woman from Iowa who wants Trump to win so badly that she voted for…

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Cartoon

Pick Your Poison

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Cartoon

Trump Song

By Chuck Siler

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Dear Lord, Deliver Us From Evil (Donald Trump)

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I submit, for Donald Trump to be rejected, denounced and shunned by “most” of White America, they’d have to have a collective conscience, and I’d argue even half-a-century later - they’ve no conscience.

Evil . . . profoundly immoral and malevolent - additional synonyms: wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, reprobate, villainous, nefarious, vicious,…

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Commentary

Trump, Misogyny, Racism, Ableism, Women in 2016 Races

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

Teachers, the overwhelming numbers of whom are women and who also make up fifty-three percent of the electorate, will be key in flipping the U.S. Senate from a Republican to a Democratic majority on Tuesday, November 8th.

It is crunch time in the 2016 election season, and women, minorities, immigrants, and citizens with disabilities remain under attack. Donald Trump has intentionally and viciously…

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Commentary

After November 8th – State of the Black World

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The advancement of African American people, frankly, has not been a priority for either Democrats or Republicans. African Americans loyally give their votes to Democrats because Democrats have been more responsive, but analysts have correctly noted that the loyalty has not been reciprocal.

I’m writing one week before the November 8th election, writing and praying that Election Day comes sooner than it is supposed to. I did my early…

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No DAPL

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Industrial Hog Farm Research LawsuitThreatens Academic Freedom in N.C

By John Funiciello Columnist

Big corporations own much of what we depend on for information that is vital to citizens in a democracy. They, however, have the deepest pockets and tend to overwhelm decency in public life, since they also have batteries of lawyers who have nothing to do but keep the people at bay.

At first glance, one might ask: What has industrial pork production have to do with academic freedom? In the U.S. in recent years, there seems to…

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Commentary

Laughing to Keep from Crying in “The Scottsboro Boys”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The Scottsboro Boys is about the imprisonment of nine teenage boys, ranging in ages from twelve to nineteen, falsely accused of raping two white women, a repeated racial trope in American history.

Broadway legends John Kander and Fred Ebb’s production of “The Scottsboro Boys” is here now in Beantown. When I was told that the framing devise of…

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Commentary

The American Dynamic and Nationalism

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Being called racist because we believe in, and will fight for, the interests of our race with undying loyalty should become the most honorable badge of courage in our community. We should get off of this defensive “trip” when we fight for the interests of our race and some other national/ethnic group calls us racist.

In order for the African Community in America to continue our fight for self-determination and dignity, it is important that we remind ourselves of the nature…

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