Issue: 713
September 28, 2017
Color of Law
What is the Price Tag on a Black Life?
Executive Editor
These days, there are few police officers who face prison time for killing Black people, as if ending Black lives is an accepted, acceptable and expected part of the job. Typically, they will not lose their freedom, and at best they will lose their jobs, and at worst they
Do Black lives have a price tag attached to them? Are Black people reduced to a dollar amount as the ultimate value of their bodies? The…
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View from the Battlefield
What Can We Learn from the Brothers of the Black List?
Editorial Board
Contrary to popular white conservative beliefs, racial profiling and criminalizing Black youth doesn’t just happen on urban streets in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. It happens to young, Black people on idyllic college campuses seeking for the American dream. It happens wherever there are Black bodies.
This fall semester started off with racist activities on college campuses. This month commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Brothers of the Black List case. Viewing…
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Commentary
Taking a Knee to Bridge the Divide
Columnist
Have you heard much about the poverty rate among black and other minority children? Most people have not. It’s not of interest to the mass media and it surely is not of interest to Trump, Republicans, and most politicians, in general.
General awareness among Americans of the injustice that exists into the very corners of the nation’s structure has been growing at a steady pace since the…
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Commentary
A One-Man Movie
Columnist
His talk of acting unilaterally is the equal of a child bully with a barrels-loaded super-soaker water gun while the other kids have Dixie empty cups. Many humans were totally offended, not only in this nation, but all who were listening. Peace cannot be achieved by walking alone, chiefly because the United States never leaves anyone or nation alone!
Have you been to the movies lately? Me? I’m not a real movie-goer…I think they’re too expensive and the theaters are too grandiose (therein lies the…
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Commentary
Teachers, Unions Losing School Privatization Marketing War
Columnist
Grassroots, Cartel-funded groups have run ads in major newspapers and on cable television with the talking heads endorsing voucher and charter schools as the best way to improve public education
Political Updates: Recent polls reveal that Democrats are losing ground in the 2017 gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia that they need to win. After…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
It Won’t Be Long Before Trump Calls Someone A Nigger
Columnist
Trump’s ignited the culture war we’ve all feared for the last half-a-century, for multiple reasons; He’s a racist who doesn't “like” black people. He’s needs a distraction from his treasonous Russian activities.
You can feel it in the air. It won't be long now before Trump calls some Black person a “Nigger . . . .” His now…
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Commentary
W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee
Guest Commentator
Lee followed Virginia. He followed Virginia not because he particularly loved slavery (although he certainly did not hate it), but because he did not have the moral courage to stand against his family and his clan. Lee hesitated and hung his head in shame because he was asked to lead armies against human progress and Christian decency and did not dare refuse. He surrendered not to Grant, but to Negro Emancipation.
Each year on the 19th of January there is renewed effort to canonize Robert E. Lee, the greatest confederate general. His personal comeliness, his aristocratic birth…
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Commentary
African People and the Real Meaning of Education, Part 2
Columnist
It is quite clear that the major direction of U. S. educational policy has been to train and educate African people to work for white people. That is, to teach them to read, write, and compute, so they will be prepared to work for us.
Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…
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