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June 15, 2017

View from the Battlefield

The Ultimate Betrayal – The Destruction of Mother Earth

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The peril of the planet cannot possibly be understood in its totality by these two buffoons who reject evidence-based facts and truths. Most of us would respect these facts as science and welcome any positive steps to chart a meaningful course on global climate change.

Everyone has been focused on the Senate intelligence committee hearings starring former FBI Director James Comey and current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. What frequently happens…

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FU Future

Cartoon

FU Future

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

On Courtesy – Race, Gender and the Defensive 45

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

We are experiencing the most discourteous Presidential administration that we ever had. Seasoned politicos remember the Reagan administration as an ideological shift, but not a total absence of courtesy. Reagan, totally flawed, was at least affable. 45 is a mean, myopic, narcissistic, odious and rude man.

Courtesy flew out of the window in Washington parlance a long time ago. The minute a deranged Congressman stood up and hollered, “you lie” at a…

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Color of Law

Kamala Harris Has the Mic Now, So Everybody Needs to Sit Down

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

At some point, Harris was on the attack, Sessions was floundering, and the white men decided they had enough. Because the last thing Republican senators will tolerate is a black woman sassing a white man.

If you’ve been watching the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russiagate, then you know Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is killing it. The junior senator from California…

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Commentary

The Eternal Fight against Poverty

By John Funiciello Columnist

More than 46 million Americans live in poverty in the U.S.

“Poverty is not an accident; like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.” -Nelson Mandela Since ancient…

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Commentary

Unions and Teachers, Where They Need to Go From Here

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

It is time for unions and teachers to take specific actions for their survival!

Within the past month, unions and teachers have experienced political ups and downs that may be precursors to the battles in the upcoming 2017 and 2018…

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Commentary

The Enduring Use of the N-word

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

the notion that it is acceptable for African Americans to use the n-word with each other yet it is considered racist for others outside the race to use it unquestionably sets up a double standard. And because language is a public enterprise, the notion that one ethnic group has property rights to the term is an absurdly narrow argument. Moreover, the fact that African Americans have appropriated the n-word does not negate our long history of internalized self-hatred.

In this political climate hate speech is becoming common use. And there has been an uptick of the use of the n-word, even from the mouths…

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Commentary

Give Him a Chance to Do What?

By Perry Redd Columnist

He's had his chance to act presidential.

So we’ve now just about reached the six month mark in a Donald Trump presidency and I can’t see the pot of gold at the end…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Slicksters, Hustlers, Con-Artist, Traitors and Pimps: This Is The Trump Mad-House

By Desi Cortez Columnist

tragically most every man and woman has a price. Somebody go blow the dust off the Ojays Soul classic “For the love of money” and go stand in front of Trump’s madhouse and pump it up.

Slicksters, Hustlers, Con-Artist, Traitors and Pimps: This Is The Trump Mad-House. It is a administration recklessly but strategically composed of greedy, Trump rumpt kissin n’ lickin’…

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