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January 11, 2018

Color of Law

What Israel is Doing to African Refugees is a Moral Atrocity

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Officials in Israel are concerned that too many Black people threaten the “Jewish and democratic character” of the nation. Add to that a fear of being outnumbered and overrun by Palestinian Arabs - some of whom are second-class Israeli citizens, but many more of whom are subject to a military occupation, without rights, dispossessed of their land and living in the open.

There are 38,000 African refugees and migrants who are living in Israel, mostly from Eritrea and the Sudan. And the rightwing Israeli government has issued them…

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Commentary

Fifty Years Ago

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Fifty years ago, we lost a King and gained audacity. We turned it up and turned it out in cities around the country. We confronted government with the Poor People’s Campaign. Now what?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929, turned 39 years old fifty years ago. Assassinated on April 4, 1968, he didn’t make it…

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Guest Commentary

17 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2018

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy JD Guest Commentator

Big money still runs the show. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. First a confession. I did not write a “16 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2016.” It was a strange post-election period and I just couldn’t put pen to paper.…

Big money still runs the show. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. First a confession.…

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Commentary

Is Trump Fit to be President?

By John Funiciello Columnist

the U.S. president is doing his best every day to play with the fire of nuclear war, taunting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that his nuclear button is bigger than Kim’s. Trump’s utterances are a daily reminder that he has no idea about the import of his ramblings and he seems to forget that he is the president of the most powerful country in the world, at least in military and weapons might.

It’s an ill wind that blows no good. --Proverb An ill wind has been blowing out of the White House for the past year and it…

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Commentary

2018 Privatization Challenges Facing Teachers and Unions

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

There is no coherent, attractive message among rank-and-file Democrats who are vying for the 2018 presidential nomination or the brain trust of Democratic National Committee (DNC). Thus the outcomes, as of now, are likely to be, as noted by the late Yogi Berra, “… d�j� vu all over again.”

2018 promises to be a banner year for the school reform Cartel’s public school privatization efforts. As in the past, the Cartel continues to: expand its…

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Sheep Dreams

Cartoon

Sheep Dreams

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

Finding Leonard Bernstein

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

For me, the profound Age of Anxiety, Bernstein’s second symphony, linking poetry to music, music to poetry, is a response to the perpetuation of the irrational and the inhumane of the 20th Century.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. I do see race. At times, it’s…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

White America made a deal with a pompous, racist, sexist, psychotic flame-haired flame throwing caveman… and they’re damn proud of it

By Desi Cortez Columnist

White America’s choice of Trump hammer’s home my contention , as a culture, most of white America has no “conscience,” along with most having no conception of noble notions like, “I am my brother’s keeper,” or “all for one, one for all.”

White America, the hostile, rude, crude, loudmouthed new racial “minority” group in the US. from the everyday average “Seth” and “Mary” representing the run-of-the-mill rank n…

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Commentary

Kwanzaa: The Challenges Of A New Season

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Many Africans in America, women and men, continue to remind us that we earn in excess of 600 billion dollars a year in this country. The tragedy of this economic potential in the African Community in America is that the overwhelming majority of this income we earn, we spend with other people and not with our own.

As we enter a New Kwanzaa Season, we must remind ourselves of the continued challenges that we face. The fundamental issue that Africans in America must…

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