May 18, 2017
Color of Law
Executive Editor
nobody in this Administration can be trusted to lead an honest investigation into a serious national security issue.
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey late Thursday amid FBI criminal investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in interfering with…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
We in HBCU Land (my special term for our space) play ourselves cheap. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Georgetown, and Stanford aren’t rushing to give Betsy DeVoid honorary degrees. They don’t think she deserves them.
I could not be more proud of the students at Bethune Cookman University than if I had raised them myself. Responding to the University’s very late…
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Commentary
Columnist
These unprecedented realities provide an unforeseen occasion for public school teachers and supporters to push back aggressively against the state and federal governments and corporate agenda to privatize public education for profit.
President Donald Trump is on a downward spiral in his presidency as a function of his narcissism, arrogance, and his commitment to running the country as…
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Commentary
Columnist
In the case of Israel and the most recent hunger strike of Palestinians, even though few might be paying attention in the world press, they do not want the strikers dying in their custody. So, there was at least one report that Israel might seek foreign doctors to force feed the prisoners, as necessary to keep them alive.
When Bobby Sands started a hunger strike in protest of “the troubles” in Northern Ireland in 1981, it was given wide coverage in newspapers and broadcast…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Segregation in this city is not only along race lines but also class. Poor working-class whites and white immigrants do not experience the fullness their white skin privilege would abundantly afford them if they too were part of Cambridge’s professional and/or monied class.
The city of Cambridge is a stormy hotbed of politics and social issues, and no person has weathered its vicissitudes better than Mayor E. Denise Simmons.…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
You’re looking at a White man “gone insane” with white privilege and and audacious financial power. He’s welding power like a fat-cat CEO, not like President of all the people, big n’ little, as his predecessor did for 8 years.
Please, please, please, don’t “piss” down my back and then try to tell me it’s raining! Let’s start here: there’s no other conclusion which can be…
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