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Color of Law

FBI Tracks & Arrests ‘Black Identity Extremist’ and Hardly Anyone Is Talking About It

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

while the FBI has designated Black Identity Extremists as a terror threat, it has not similarly identified white extremist groups who are killing the vast majority of police, suggesting politics rather than data are at play.

Six months after the FBI issued a report inventing from whole cloth the term Black Identity Extremists — claiming this group poses a terrorist threat to…

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Cartoon

Trump Supporters

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Guest Commentary

Dr. King and Trucks

By Larry Mathews Guest Commentator

What an obscene, disgusting display of crass commercialism! Selling trucks few people can afford by twisting one of the great speeches in American history, by ignoring its core message, and attempting to brand a truck with one of the world’s great moral teachers.

On the Sunday before he was murdered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington, that magnificent edifice where America officially mourns…

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Commentary

Pimping King

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

King’s youngest son, Dexter runs the Intellectual Properties Management arm of the King Center, which appears not to distinguish between commercializing King from communicating King to younger and wider audiences. Its aim is for revenue maximization, by any means that presents itself. This time it was the Dodge Ram truck ad.

With 2018 being the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination commemorations honoring the man will be taking place across the country.…

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Commentary

Black History Month – How You Can Celebrate Black History Month

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Carter G. Woodson, the founder of ASALH and Black History Month (originally Negro History Week), would be spinning in his grave, if he knew how few of us celebrate this month. (Of course, Black history is also American history, and we ought to celebrate Black history every month of the year!)

Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) selects a theme for Black History Month. This year, the theme, African…

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View from the Battlefield

Citizenship Becoming a Nightmare for Dreamers – Held hostage for a wall by trump

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

I know we can find a just and humane resolution to the immigration concerns and to better spend our hard-earned tax dollars. The Mexican government is not going to pay for this wall and neither will there be any private dollars coming from big, greedy corporations. This trump pet project is about to blow a hole in taxpayers’ pockets!

U.S. citizenship for a wall. Really? This is the current reality for those coming from Mexico to seek the American dream. Instead, they’re facing a nightmare.…

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Guest Commentary

“This Is an Era Defined by the Rise of Women” – 11th Annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture with Angela Davis

By Angelina Giannopoulou, Transform! Europe Guest Commentator

this is an era defined by the rise of women.

In Athens, in a crowded room of 600 people, which proved very small for such an incredible woman, Angela Davis started her lecture by expressing her…

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Commentary

Trump Reaching Back Centuries for Parades to Emulate to Show U.S. Power

By John Funiciello Columnist

Trump seems especially impressed by the military parades and displays of Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea, who can order a military parade just about anytime he wishes. That kind of power apparently impresses Donald Trump, who has had a shouting match (in tweets) with Kim, about whose nuclear button is bigger.

It had to happen. Trump, believing himself to be something more than a mere president of the United States, has called for a glorious military parade…

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Commentary

Democrats’ Midterm Minuses and the Need for a New Mindset

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

It is time for a new Democratic mindset. The situation does not demand that they come up with something new but that they follow the strategies employed by Democrats who won uphill electoral battles over Republicans in Alabama, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin in a state (Alabama) and districts that Trump won by seventeen points or more in 2016.

Democrats are underestimating Republicans’ midterm messaging strength and overestimating their own potential for a political wave in the forthcoming midterm elections. They appear to be falling…

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Commentary

In Praise of the Personal Essay in the Age of #MeToo and Times Up

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

the #MeToo Movement started years ago with Black women, and many women of color find the personal narrative useful in expressing what it means to be a woman of color in America. And that expression of the personal for women of color has always pointed to the public, the institutionalization of violence in this country.

The dead are more insolent than ever. It used to be easy: we gave them a starched collar a flower we placed their names on an…

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