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April 06, 2017

Color of Law

How would MLK respond to Trump’s America?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Trump’s America would look very familiar to Dr. King, a nation that has failed to live up to the lofty rhetoric found in its Constitution. And African-Americans still have that blank check that came back marked “insufficient funds.” Then and now, King would see a country crying out for justice.

On the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, this is as appropriate a time as any to ask how the slain civil rights leader…

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Commentary

Alexander Acosta – Bad News in a Slick Package

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

he is likely to be nothing but a disappointment for workers. Not only will he likely do less for overtime than President Obama required, but he will likely also limit rules that limit worker exposure to cancer-causing substances, and require financial advisers to work in the best interest of their clients.

By the time you read this, Alexander Acosta, the 45th President’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, is likely to have been confirmed by the full Senate.…

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View from the Battlefield

Vision – Transformation: Moving from Self-Centeredness to Collective Grounding Part 7 of 7

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

When people come together into a collective or into a social movement, our personal baggage collides with the political baggage. This is when our organizations become consumed with containing the drama, extinguishing the fires and dodging the political arrows.

This is the seventh 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

William T. Coleman, Jr., 1920-2017, Warrior for Social Justic

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

Marshall’s decision to call on Mr. Coleman was instrumental in the NAACP’s victory over public school segregation in the Brown ruling.

A native of Philadelphia, William T. Coleman, Jr, corporate lawyer, warrior for education and social justice, presidential cabinet official, and confidential advisor to ten U.S. Presidents…

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Commentary

Right-Wing Republicans in Congress are Outdone by Rep. Virginia Foxx of N.C

By John Funiciello Columnist

Foxx does not believe that unions need exist at all, because, she claims, the laws of the country already take care of workers and their welfare and safety on the job.

The U.S. Senate has driven the last nail in the coffin of the rule that allowed cities and counties to create their own retirement savings accounts…

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Commentary

De-Constructing Progress

By Perry Redd Columnist

I can’t imagine that a 70-year-old man with a toddler’s temperament and a fifth-grader’s vocabulary could do this all on his own.

I really do hate to operate from a posture of anger, but since November 8th of last year, that’s been a pretty common disposition for me.…

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Commentary

Mike Brown and why Police and Prosecutors Hate America – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

One thing for sure, the lack of indictments and acquittals of Wilson and other officers discussed in the news and many other examples I'm sure many of you can think of, have a produced a dumber, and more arrogant police force.

Whites in the criminal justice system keep secrets better than anyone, by now many of you have heard of the news regarding the much-debated Mike Brown…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Black Men Bedding White Women – The White Man’s Long Nightmare

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump, who’s clearly speaking for not all but most of White America - wanted to hang the Central Park 5, despite the truth they didn’t rape that White female jogger.

Once upon a time, long ago I dated this White girl in high school. In this instance I played football with her brother, so her dad,…

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Commentary

Continuing the Demand for Reparations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

International law supports the position that the enslavement of Africans was a crime against humanity. The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal defined crimes against humanity in this manner: 'Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetuated.'

We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century. The United Nations World Conference Against Racism in…

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