Issue: 725
January 18, 2018
Color of Law
LET’S BE CLEAR: Donald Trump is the REAL Shithole
Executive Editor
The GOP used to call us nigger in the backroom, with code words, dog whistles and a wink and a nod to white folks in public. But now, they just bring the white sheets and the nooses out in the open.
Anyone with a pulse has known for quite some time that Donald Trump, the “President” of the United States, is a white-collar Klansman. He is a…
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Commentary
The Epithet Heard ‘Round the World
Columnist
the very act of saying “I am not a racist” would lead even the casual observer to believe that he is, indeed, a racist.
It’s one thing to hear outrage from heads of state and leaders of education and business in the countries targeted by the president, Donald Trump, but…
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Guest Commentary
More Racist and Xenophobic Rhetoric From Our Mentally Unhinged President
Guest Commentator
The Congressional Black Caucus and a number of Democratic senators have proposed a resolution censuring the president for his atrocious and arguably sinister remarks.
Last week, a number of journalists, radio hosts, pundits and ordinary folk worked themselves into an understandable frenzy over President Donald Trump’s reference to the specific…
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Commentary
Racism, Misogyny, Corruption, Sh*tholes, and the 2018 Midterms
Columnist
Democrats need to develop a unified message that will resonate in the public square.
President Donald J. Trump is a Racist! Nonetheless, he is not the first U.S. President to harbor such views - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
White America’s New King is Just Looking for a Fight . . . A Global Race War
Columnist
Trump is intoxicated with power n’ privilege - a social barfly and a racist, who’s looking for, stewing-for a fight and he knows the bartender, the bouncers and the cops are all on his side.
You don’t have to be clairvoyant, nor a mind-reader to hear and feel the bloody drums of war, to be precise - the drums of a…
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View from the Battlefield
Planning the Poor People’s Campaign – The King Legacy 50 Years Later
Editorial Board
The progress of Black, Brown and poor people has been sporadic since 1968. The trump administration in its quest to Make America Great Again is trying to take us back 50 years. It’s appropriate that the concept of the Poor People’s Campaign be resurrected.
A not-so funny thing happening on the way to the annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday—the St. Louis planning committee distanced itself from the…
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Commentary
Dr. King and the Dignity of Work
Editorial Board
The federal Department of Labor seems to be on a campaign to rescind Obama-era rules that improve life for workers.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t plan to get involved in the Memphis garbage worker’s strike. He hadn’t planned to be there on the fateful day…
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Commentary
King’s Dream of “The Beloved Community” Extends to Your Community, too
Editorial Board
Americans on the margins have the most to lose in a nation now eroding, if not dismantling, decades-long civil rights gains.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. It’s a painful and necessary anniversary to remember, considering where…
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