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Issue: 692

March 30, 2017

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Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr – Riverside Church, New York City, 4 April 1967 (Full Text and Audio of Speech)

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I…

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Pigs Feeding Pigs

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Pigs Feeding Pigs

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Guest Commentary

Women’s History Month – Civil Rights Leader Fannie Lou Hamer: Her Unstoppable War Against Jim Crow

By Claudia Li, Freedom Socialist Newspaper Guest Commentator

Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 for a minor tumor removal and was secretly sterilized. She was enraged and exposed it very publicly, calling it the “Mississippi Appendectomy,” a common outrage to many poor Black and white Southern women, women with disabilities, or those deemed by physicians as “unfit to reproduce.” That outrage was Fannie Lou Hamer’s declaration of war as a lifetime warrior against a racist, segregated USA.

“I guess if I’d had any sense I’d a been a little scared, but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could…

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Color of Law

We Need More Black Prosecutors Like Aramis Ayala

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

People of color are the ones being put to death, a remnant of Jim Crow lynching, and a reflection of an unjust system rife with abuse, corruption and racial bias, in which 95 percent of the elected prosecutors are white, and 83 percent are men.

Remember the name Aramis Ayala. She is a black woman and a Florida prosecutor who is taking a stand against the death penalty, and she is…

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Commentary

Secret Service and the Trumps – Hypocrisy and Hubris

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

45 was a frequent critic of President Obama’s golfing, a pastime that he engages in frequently himself. And he can’t seem to find any golf courses in the DC area so he’s back to Mar-a-Largo, where taxpayers spend $3 million every time the President goes to his private resort. Mr. Trump is not trying to tighten the belt he wears; he is only trying to tighten the nation’s.

The “budget lite” that our 45th President submitted is described as a “budget blueprint to make America Great Again”. Submitted in the third week of March,…

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Commentary

Mary E. Taylor, Gorsuch, Justice Thomas and Public Education

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

Mary Elizabeth Taylor is an attractive, young African American woman who sits directly behind Judge Gorsuch. Ms. Taylor's nonstop cameo appearances give Gorsuch the look of being racially sensitive and diverse in his thinking and relationships.

Mary Elizabeth Taylor, remember that name, may be the most consequential player in Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation fight to become a Justice on the U.S. Supreme…

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View from the Battlefield

Vision: Summations: Going Back to Go Forward – Faster – Part 6 of 7

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Our movement is anemic on study; it’s easier to argue about opinions than to assert a historical analysis based upon facts. Memes can be clever in delivering a short, powerful message but they are no substitute for a disciplined dive into theory, ideology and philosophy.

This is the sixth article of a 7-part series that will focus on the issues in our radical movements that I think need our immediate and…

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Commentary

Whose Defense Budget is Impoverishing its People Faster, Russia or the U.S.?

By John Funiciello Columnist

The American people need to take a much closer look at the origins of the sounding of the drums of war against Russia and what it means for the most vulnerable people in the societies of both countries.

Since last November’s election, the Democrats have been desperately trying to explain why they lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, possibly the most unsuited candidate…

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By Chuck Siler

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