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Issue: 683

January 26, 2017

Cover Story

Women’s March Highlights Old and New Tensions

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Unlike previous women’s marches and waves of feminism that had primarily been an intentionally exclusive group of female country club members that spoke to Betty Friedan's feminine mystique of upper-crust “pumps and pearls” wearing white women, this march was intentional in bringing various women and their voices and concerns to the organizing table.

The number of people who took to the streets for Women’s March on Washington in D.C. and its sister marches across the country and the globe…

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Liar In-Chief

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Liar In-Chief

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

An Alternative Fact Is An Actual Fiction

By Perry Redd Columnist

The question for the media is whether he’s telling the truth or deliberately lying. Misinformation is not disinformation, and the media cannot afford to normalize either.

On Inauguration Day 2017, my employer gave the staff the day off. The expectation was that workers, with the day off, might personally witness the peaceful…

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Color of Law

Trump Scrubs Civil Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Climate Change from WhiteHouse.gov

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

These dramatic changes to the White House website mirror the drastic and draconian cuts this president plans to make to the government. To sum it up, he’s getting rid of everything.

Watch President Donald Trump and follow his actions carefully. Even in the early days of his administration, he is telling you what he thinks about you…

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Icing on the Cake

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Icing on the Cake

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Sharp n’ Blunt

No President Obama, We’re Not Going to be OK

By Desi Cortez Columnist

King Trump is the trumped-up leader of a White supremacist revolt masquerading as Make America White movement. They’ve an admitted-to an antiquated America First agenda; which translated means - White Americans First Last and Only, Screw everyone else.

President Obama bid farewell to all the little people by offering this highly optimistic if not a somewhat “and they all lived happily ever” fairy tale…

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Guest Commentary

Trump’s Trumpets Are Definitely Not “God’s Trombones”! … Are They Clarion Calls Presaging The Apocalypse?

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD Guest Commentator

We need to develop an urban non violent guerrilla movement designated to rebel, resist, and attack. It must be one that incessantly continues to snap at his infantile ego while building the machinery to take the reins of power.

When I began this piece I had just read a news item stating that the earth had hit a record high temperature for the third consecutive…

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Commentary

Poverty, Betsy DeVos, and Chicago Public School’s Room 205

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

does not factor addressing poverty into any of the necessities for effective public education because she basically believes it does not matter.

Betsy DeVos revealed her intense disdain for public schools during her confirmation hearing to become Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education: little regard for students…

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Drone Foundation

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Drone Foundation

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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