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Issue: 735

March 29, 2018

Guest Commentary

The Media Has to Do a Better Job of Calling Out Racial Hatred

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

What is important is for the mainstream media to come to develop an understanding of what racial and religious prejudice actually is and come to the realization that they have to aggressively call out racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and other forms of attitudes and dispositions for what they are - pure and unadulterated hatred!

Earlier this month, the Huffington Post ran an exclusive, detailed expose on Dayanna Volitich, the 25 year old middle school social studies teacher and White Supremacist…

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Privilege

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Privilege

By Chuck Siler

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View from the Battlefield

March for Our Lives: Unscripted and Unapologetic

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The new activists who mobilized the March for Our Lives don’t have a full strategy figured out yet, but I can tell they have been paying attention to the moments around them - like Black Lives Matter. They must be open to constructive criticism about how to move their agenda forward and build an inclusive leadership for their budding crusade.

My bet is always on organized youth. And the young people didn’t disappoint last weekend. The March for our Lives was the convergence of one of…

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Commentary

Bipartisan Energy For HBCUs

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

HBCUs were founded to educate African American people, but they were also founded to liberate us from the shackles of enslavement and economic disparity. This can be done both by educating professionals – lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and the like, but also by preparing freedom fighters. In recent years, the focus has been more on the former than the latter.

Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC) ain't nothing but the truth. From the time she was elected to Congress in 2014, she was committed to making a difference.…

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Color of Law

Penn Law Prof’s Comments Prove Need for Racial Justice in Legal Profession

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The need for diversity and inclusion is as important as ever, as is activism in pursuit of those goals. This reality was brought home very recently when Amy Wax - a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor - denigrated African-American students by questioning their intelligence and claiming they do not belong there.

Why are diversity and inclusion important in the legal profession and in society in general? The justice system is not colorblind, and black and brown men…

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Commentary

Their Backs Against the Wall, Teachers are Fighting Back

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

After having their salaries flattened, their benefits and pension contributions dramatically increased during the past decade, and states under-funding their contributions to teachers’ pensions, teachers and educational support personnel are beginning to recognize that their future employment and professions are in jeopardy.

He has asked the U.S. Military to use its budget to pay for his border wall in his efforts to ramp up support among his base…

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Commentary

Women’s History Month – A Feminist Takeover Remembered

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Boston was once an intellectual haven with activist circles of feminism in its heyday. Today it is mostly a forgotten history, which is one of the reasons for “Left on Pearl” documentary.

Most days when the weather permits my morning constitutional is a two mile walking loop around the Charles River. From my house I walk south toward…

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Guest Commentary

Extreme Gerrymandering: Democrats Need Near-Record Margin to Take House in 2018

By The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law Guest Commentator

The 2018 elections will test the grip of modern gerrymandering. Voters appear poised to speak loudly. Early indications point to an exceptional wave election. But will that voice translate into electoral results?

Many Democrats are optimistic about their chances of winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. But in a new…

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Commentary

Machinists Union in N.C. Going After Boeing Again, But on a Smaller Scale

By John Funiciello Columnist

In Charleston, the workers were up against the same kind of relentless pressure from union-busters and politicians alike. It's no accident that South Carolina is the state with the lowest union density. That is, the lowest rate of unionization in the U.S., at about 2.6 percent. It has made a fetish of its status as a union-hostile state.

The International Association of Machinists (IAM), about a year after losing an election for all 3,000 Boeing workers at the North Charleston, N.C., Dreamliner plant, is…

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