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July 13, 2017

Cover Story

Are You Better Off in a 45 Presidency?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

He said that he would create jobs, generate economic growth, and create a new and better health care environment than the one we got from the Affordable Care Act. Instead, he has found himself stuck in the muddy quicksand of wanting to repeal, but not replace, the legislation that provided health insurance for more than 20 million people.

The man who currently occupies the Oval Office (I call him 45, but y ’all know his name, and we don’t call it because we do…

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Pain in the

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Pain in the

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

Back Pay for Police Who Kill? Another Cruel Reality of a Twisted, Perverted System

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Police officers continue to kill black people and claim they feared for their lives, then win a big cash settlement as if they were somehow harmed. A precious few cops are made to pay the price, and few families of the victims find justice. Yet, these cops seem to come out ahead.

When it comes to police officers who kill black people, the system has a perverted sense of justice. The offending officers are acquitted, even when we…

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Commentary

Public Education Stakeholders Overwhelmed by Privatization

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

Public education stakeholders must be more mindful of the Cartel’s multifaceted assault on public schools that is intensifying daily.

The primary stakeholders in public education - teachers, unions, parents, and ordinary citizens - are being systematically overwhelmed by the forces of privatization. The Cartel of…

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Commentary

It’s Happening Again: The Dumping of U.S. Chicken on a Developing Nation

By John Funiciello Columnist

The powerful are not heeding the dangers presented by vast inequality of distribution of the earth's riches over generations.

The dumping of “dark meat” chicken on the markets of Africa is not the only situation where a developed country’s produce is sent to markets that…

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G20

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G20

By Carlos Latuff

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Commentary

DignityUSA is Moving Toward Radical Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

This year DignityUSA held its 23rd biennial national conference in Boston from July 6-9. Its theme was “A Place at the Table,” challenging the Catholic Church and themselves to practice a ministry of radical inclusion.

With the Catholic Church being the largest Christian denomination in the world the fight for the dignity and inclusion of its LGBTQI parishioners is a fight…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Stand-By Your Rich White Man

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Its debatable if Trump could stand in Times Square and gun-down folks, but he can instigate and orchestrate a global war. He can institute martial law in major Chocolate Cites, and snatch away healthcare from all those who can’t afford the exorbitant, extortionist type payoffs to the investor class.

Stand by your rich White man, even if he’s a traitor, a modern-era Benedict Arnold who, along with his family and fellow aristocrats who’re sitting around…

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Commentary

Harold Cruse and 50 Years

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

When we use the term intellectual, we are talking about people who struggle around ideas - writers, poets, scholars, researchers, teachers, students, and activists. Intellectuals are people who grapple with ideas and who function in the cultural, political, educational, and economic domains of the society.

One of our great esteemed ancestors, Harold Cruse wrote a book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual which was published in 1967, at the height of…

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Rogue State

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Rogue State

By Mark Hurwitt

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