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Issue: 705

June 29, 2017

Cover Story

Will Supreme Court Allow Businesses to Not Serve the LGBTQ Community?

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The “Religious Freedom Restoration Acts” springing up across the country are a backlash to the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and the growing fear of when the Supreme Court legalize it nationwide. They are a perversion of the Constitution and our history of religious freedom.

This week the U. S. Supreme Court announced that in the fall it will hear the case “Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.” The case…

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Color of Law

After Castile Verdict, What Comes Next?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Popular racial stereotypes that portray black people as dangerous, threatening criminals seep into the public conscience and the media, reinforcing some police officers' perceptions of black children as older and more culpable than they are, and making it more likely they will shoot black people to death. This is a problem for everyone.

(CNN) The acquittals of police officer Jeronimo Yanez in the death of Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minnesota; and the not guilty verdict in the trial…

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Commentary

Health Care in the Dark

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

There will be no reimbursement for Planned Parenthood. Cuts in Medicaid. Health insurance premiums determined by age. Scant protection for those with pre-existing conditions. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

My grandmother, and yours, too probably, used to say that things done in the dark would eventually come to light. There is way too much “dark”…

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Commentary

Unions, Teachers, Citizens Are Key to Democrats Regaining Power

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

Trump recognized early on that a rising percentage of the white electorate is fearful that the growth of populations of color in America is displacing their numerical superiority, causing them to be uncomfortable with the rapidly changing demographics in the country.

Now that Democrats have lost power in all four branches of the federal government and in a growing number of state legislatures, they are cannibalizing each…

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Commentary

Russia and the U.S.: Spy Vs. Spy?

By John Funiciello Columnist

the hacking affected the election that gave the world Trump, an often-failed billionaire businessman who had no interest in politics, other than how and when it affected his businesses and curbed or enhanced his bottom line. Not a very auspicious way to enter the political field.

“Kid’a you good lookin’, but you don’t know what’s a cookin’… -From the 1950s hit song “Mambo Italiano” by Rosemary Clooney Go no further than the…

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Commentary

Angry, Ya’ Think?

By Perry Redd Columnist

A wrongful death at the hands of law enforcement cements generations on the opposite side of police loyalty.

So we’ve now just about reached the mollification point in yet another acquittal of a police officer who has killed a Black man under the cover…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Trump Is Making America “White” Again

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If good, decent White folks don't step-up and speak-out, both Liberals and Conservatives, then the cavemen who want to return the nation to their glory days of yesteryear will rise-up and change the course of this nation.

Trump Is making America "White" again, and he’s doing it by any god-damn means he wants to, and his ”White America” well, from Fargo to Key…

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Guest Commentary

American Slavery: Separating Fact from Myth

By Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, PhD Guest Commentator

African-Americans have been free in this country for less time than they were enslaved. Do the math: Blacks have been free for 152 years, which means that most Americans are only two to three generations away from slavery. This is not that long ago.

People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies,…

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