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March 08, 2018

Cover Story

Women’s History Month – Conformist Clothing, Revolutionary Resistance in Appreciation of Black Women’s History

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The ways that we, Black women, represent are important. We signal with our Afrocentric attire, with the kente draping our shoulders, with the Adinkra symbols that resonate in our jewelry. Black Panther reflects that and allows us to revel in the lushness (however distorted) of our African roots.

One of the joys of watching the Black Panther film was enjoying the many ways Afrodescendent women were portrayed. We were protective mamas, and Angela Bassett’s…

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Diapers

Cartoon

Diapers

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

US Schools Fail to Teach about Slavery and America Pays the Price

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The United States teaches slavery in a way that lacks historical context, accentuates historical positives while ignoring a troubling legacy, and covers a difficult past only to the extent those problems were resolved,

(CNN) Another February has passed, and once again too many Americans view Black History Month as a footnote, impacting African-Americans but insignificant to the greater country.…

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Commentary

Teachers, Janus v. AFSCME, and the West Virginia Teachers Strike

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

It is instructive that Secretary DeVos, one of the nation’s most aggressive opponents against public education, teachers, and unions, was in attendance at the SCOTUS Janus hearing rooting for Janus. Therefore, it is even more imperative that teachers organize for their survival.

Teachers have a clear message for the 2018 midterms: “We ain’t taking it anymore!” They are having their voices heard and their votes have made a…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Trumpism Ignores “Your Heroes are not Always Mine . . . .”

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I deem Frederick Douglass, Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, Harriet Tubman and Nelson Mandela as heroes, just as I regard Black Panthers Huey P Newton, Bobby Seale and Soledad sister Angela Davis as true, legit, all-American heroes. Individuals who are merely guilty of 'fighting the power.'

This common-sense perspective seems like an extremely difficult concept for Trump’s America to grasp, as if it’s prehistoric chinese science equations. Just say Columbus wasn’t a…

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Guest Commentary

Women’s History Month – Septima Clark: Teacher To A Movement

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor Guest Commentator

"If you watch the movie 'From Montgomery to Memphis,' you'll notice that they don't mention one woman going through there. Not one. You almost never see their role put down in any of the reports about the Movement. You just get 'Dr. so-and-so from Alabama State College did such-and-such.'" She called sexism "one of the weaknesses of the civil rights movement."

Rosa Parks, who has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, well remembers the first time she met Septima Clark. It was at a…

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Commentary

Revisiting the Works of Dr. Bobby Wright

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Most African people in America are aware that our minds were tampered with as a result of our forced capture and enslavement in America. The impact of this process is central to the international component of the Reparations Movement that we must focus on, and that is the “Repair of Ourselves” at the same time we demand reparations from the government and private corporations who benefited from our enslavement and still benefit today.

So many of the problems that African people face in the world today are due to the assault on our minds by those who captured us…

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