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Issue: 695

April 20, 2017

Color of Law

It’s Time to Get Rid of the Two-Party System

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The partisan and racial gerrymandering of districts — which currrently disproportionately benefits the Republican Party — has created one-party rule in some parts of the country, allowing politicians to select their own constituents, rather than the other way around.

Now is the time for us to consider scrapping the two-party system of government. Now is about the best time to reflect on how our politics…

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Guest Commentary

Of Lies and the “LYING King” President Trump

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD Guest Commentator

are designed to mask his obvious personal ambition, incompetence, insecurity, ignorance, and inflate his weak ego by sending thunderous bolting tweets across the national political heavens which, contrary to his expectations, are phosphorescent lights illuminating the skies with narcissistic images of his infantile bravado and pseudo machismo leaving one aghast in disbelief.

Every President, including George Washington -- he of the “cherry tree”-- at some time in their careers and presidency, have lied to the American people. It…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Maxine Waters – The Most Uppity Black Woman in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Recall Maxine was all-over Obama, criticizing his compromising n’ accommodating moderate negro approach, and now today she’s all over The Don . . . pointing-out what we all know, he’s a hustler baby, a wangster/dankster/prankster . . . New York City Gangster who’s hustled his way to the top, but he’s got to be stopped or our children will grow up in an America which will be more akin to 1940 than the 21st century.

The President is a liar, his actions are contemptible, & I'm going to fight everyday until he's impeached. Nothing in the past two weeks has changed…

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Commentary

School Choice Cartel’s Attacks on Public Education Beginning to Bear Fruit

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

the Cartel has systematically recruited a cross-section of ethnic minorities to serve as the faces of their various school choice initiatives. At the same time, it paid state- and federal-level politicians to significantly reduce funding for those public schools that the majority of minority children attend.

The stars have aligned for the corporate education reform Cartel whose members have promoted school choice—voucher and charter schools, education savings accounts, etc.— for more than…

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Commentary

In All the Bombing, What about Afghanistan’s Farmers?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Imagine further, the good that could come from the millions that are spent on bombs, if they were spent on the people.

For most Americans, the dropping of a nuclear-sized, non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan was a ho-hum affair. Since the U.S. drops so many bombs in so many…

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Commentary

An Indignant Snapshot of Wealth Disparity

By Perry Redd Columnist

We cannot continue to make rich the very people who are keeping us poor.

I would imagine “exasperation” would appropriately describe my emotion each time I read about corporate malfeasance gone amuck. I can’t recall too many things I’ve described…

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Commentary

Pepsi Ad Failed Its Multicultural Audience

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The ad was not only tone deaf in culturally appropriating the Black Lives Matter struggle, but it was also an ill-conceived ambitious project overreaching to tap into a multicultural new market - Millennials.

Pepsi ads aim to emphasize its youthful brand by championing it as “the choice of a new generation.” Not a bad marketing tool to turn its…

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Commentary

I Won’t Be Silenced by the Solar Industry’s Intimidation Tactics

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece in a publication that focuses on issues in the African American community, about the rooftop solar business, and expressed concerns that industry bad actors were misleading consumers.

Being a journalist who covers issues important to the African American and other marginalized communities, I have taken on powerful forces over the years. I have…

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