May 25, 2017
Commentary
Columnist
When we examine the economic condition of Africans in America, and throughout the world, we find one glaring problem - African people do not control our economic resources at the level we should. This is primarily due to our miseducation as a people.
In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
there are efforts society can take to prevent the normalization of this kind of hate - and the subsequent racial violence that accompanies it. To begin, we can teach the dark history of lynching in this country - both in the classroom and at home. If young minds learn the truth, they can play a part in preventing history from repeating itself.
(CNN) Over 150 years since the founding of the Ku Klux Klan - a white supremacist group that unleashed terror against African Americans across the South…
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The African World
Editorial Board
Employers’ ability to involve themselves in their workers’ right to choose how they organize undermines the possibility of real democracy.
Note: This commentary is a response by Bill Fletcher, Jr. to a forum published by Boston Review in which the authors James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
African American college graduates will have a more difficult time than their white counterparts, both because African Americans experience higher unemployment rates and because African American students are less likely to concentrate in the STEM areas than their counterparts. It will be interesting, however, to see how those African American graduates, especially HBCU graduates, fare in this labor market.
The college class of 2017 is in a better employment position than any college class in a decade. With the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, lower…
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Commentary
Columnist
For Trump, all bets are off and human rights and the environment be damned. He seems to see nothing on earth as anything but the means to make money, for himself and others of his economic class.
If it comes at all, justice for Native American farmers and black farmers comes in excruciatingly small drips in the form of court decisions that barely…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The 1992 acquittal sent a reverberating message that even with a horrific, irrefutable visual proof of brutality, white police would suffer no consequences for their actions. As a long, hot summer approaches, we need to study the 25 years before the acquittals and the 25 years since to sharpen our analysis and to inform our strategy around state repression.
Recently we received a bitter reminder of this country’s history of police terrorism: The 25th anniversary of the acquittal of the Los Angeles cops in the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
How can we sit quietly by and say nothing, basically not a damn thing about the exclusionary "tar baby" treatment of Colin Kaepernick by the NFL hierarchy?
Some issues transcend genres, and can’t be pigeon-toed into one lone category, like sports, music or politics. Colin Kaepernick is one of those rare oddities whose…
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