696 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

Trump’s One Hundred Day Assault on Public Education

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

Trump’s Wall Street education reform allies have been central to his war on public education. They were major contributors to his presidential campaign and are heavy investors in charter schools, charter management companies, education testing and publishing corporations, etc., where they have been realizing regular profits and hope to hit the jackpot with Trump’s privatization agenda for public education.

President Donald Trump has orchestrated a 100 day attack on public education. Of the numerous promises that he made during his presidential campaign, he is closest…

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Cartoon

Jekyll & Hide

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

AG Sessions: Forensic Science Panel That Helps Keep Innocent People Out of Prison Is Unnecessary

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Once denied a spot on the federal bench due to his racism, Sessions has proven himself an enemy of racial justice, civil rights and reform of the criminal justice system.

The Republican war on science has come to the U.S. Department of Justice, with the decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to eliminate the National Commission…

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Commentary

Lessons from Fox and O’Reilly

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

What do we learn from this? We learn, especially, that advertisers are controversy-averse. They do not want to be associated with an accused sexual harasser, especially when the accusations are persistent and are backed up with numerous settlements to women who have experienced harassment.

Former Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, the man whose lofty ratings are responsible for the growth of the network, is no longer on the air. Revelations…

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Commentary

Trump, Schumer Ignorant about the Most Basic Industry: Farming

By John Funiciello Columnist

What should be clear to anyone, especially Schumer and Trump, that it is not so much what Canada has done to the farmers of Wisconsin and New York State. It’s what the government, at the urging and demand of global corporations and the lobbyists of giant agribusinesses, has done to America’s small farms.

In a statement last week, Donald Trump displayed a remarkable ignorance of one of the most basic enterprises in American life, farming, when he apparently was…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Donald Trump and Sarah Palin Spat in Black America’s Face – Again

By Desi Cortez Columnist

By bringing this racist, sexist, elitist machine gun-totin’ White trash with money piece-of-you-know what into the highest office in all the land, Trump was sending a signal to General Jefferson Boulevard Sessions troops - “don’t listen to the soundbites on mainstream media, look at what I do, my actions, my deeds.

Some news stories fly beneath the radar, getting lost in the eclectic ever-changing 24-hour news cycle . . . a story like Donald Trump symbolically “spitting…

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Cartoon

Apathy

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

Aaron Hernandez’s Hail Mary Pass with John 3:16

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Given the violent nature of the game of football and Hernandez’s personal acts of violence-indicted on charges for first-degree murder without the possibility of parole - one wonders how did the John 3:16 verse factored in his life?

Former Patriot tight-end Aaron Hernandez’s suicide leaves us with more questions than answer. Many wonder what were Hernandez’s last dying words expressed in the three handwritten…

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Guest Commentary

H-1B Visa Needs Reform to Make it Fairer to Migrant and American Workers

By Daniel Costa. JD, The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Guest Commentator

Employers and corporate lobby groups claim that they use the H-1B primarily to bring in the “best and brightest” workers from abroad to fill labor shortages in science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM). But despite this widely held belief, the contrary is true:

The H-1B program provides temporary, nonimmigrant U.S. work visas for college-educated workers and fashion models from abroad. While no one can deny the importance of attracting…

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Commentary

Dr. Kobi Kambon and African Centered Psychology

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

There is no question that at this stage in history we are in battle to reclaim the African mind, spirit, and culture so that our rightful place in the world can be restored.

As I have repeated in these columns on numerous occasions, the African centered consciousness and the African Centered Movement is critical to the liberation of African…

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