736 – Black Commentator

Cover Story

MLK’s Assassination Reminds Nation of Unaddressed Gun Violence

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

don’t know if MLK could have ever imagined an epidemic of school shootings. No one could. He did, however, speak out about America’s children being reared on a steady diet of violence, suggesting a link between watching violent acts in movies or television shows resulting in antisocial behavior or acting aggressively in life.

The 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination is sadly a searing reminder of unaddressed gun violence in America. And, because gun…

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Commentary

Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr – Riverside Church, New York City – 4 April 1967 (Full Text of Speech)

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I…

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Color of Law

Martin Luther King and the Battles That Outlived Him

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Martin Luther King said the US would have to "undergo a radical revolution of values" that would cause the country to question the fairness and justice of its past and present policies, its glaring economic inequality, and the spiritual death that comes with spending more on the military than programs of social uplift.

April 4 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Although five full decades have passed since the American civil rights…

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Commentary

Hattie, Corretta, and the Women of the Movement

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Our stories are too often untold. Yet if we commemorate the 50th year after Dr. King’s assassination, we must commemorate the women who were slaughtered by racists.

Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a white aristocrat, the 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a…

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Cartoon

Happy Slaves

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Progressive Movement So White

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

Left untold in most of our history books are the many benefits the United States granted to European immigrants and their descendants but denied others.

we, as a nation, are pretty much okay with it. But having this team in my home every day for two weeks really got under my…

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Guest Commentary

Polling Shows Running on Progressive Policies Would Work in Swing Districts

By Aída Chávez, The Intercept Guest Commentator

Almost three-quarters of the voters surveyed, for instance, supported “Medicare for All.” Policies dealing with cheaper prescription drugs, infrastructure, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and cracking down on Wall Street, are exceedingly popular with swing and surge voters alike, the survey found.

It's become a clich� that each faction within each party believes that victory would be assured if only the party would follow their preferred policy approach.…

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Commentary

Distasteful and Dangerous: Trump’s Intention to Use U.S. Military Along the U.S. Mexico Frontier

By John Funiciello Columnist

He does not seem to know (as he is ignorant of so many things) that the immigration into the U.S. peaked about a decade ago. But, as in so many “decisions” of this president, the decision seems to have been made on the spur of the moment, without consultation with anyone who has an iota of knowledge of walls or immigration or foreign policy. So, he just plunges ahead, taking his lead from his favorite news source, Fox News.

The bluster of the president about the use of the U.S. Military along the U.S.-Mexico frontier may be allowed because of precedent in recent decades, but…

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Commentary

Teachers and Allies on Cusp of Victory for Public Education

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

Teachers in Red Republican states - West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona - have stepped up their protests and strikes in their struggle to salvage public education and save themselves. Among the lowest paid in the nation, these teachers and their allies are taking a hard line against the Republican legislators that many of them helped to elect as they have been pushed against a financial wall.

Atty. Michael Avenatti and his client, Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford), have Trump under pressure by using the same bullying tactics against him that he used to…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

America, This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land… Yeah Right, Sure!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

400 years of either slave labor or damn-near free labor provided at slave wages. Asians were pimped and exploited to build the intercontinental railway and all women, even snow white and Cinderella were kept barefoot and pregnant, i.e., dumb n’ dependent. This is the “good ol’ days” that Trump and his supporters long for.

Improvise, adapt overcome . . . that’s what we were forced to do with our 2018 Spring Break family vacation. See, Mother Nature, Mother Earth and…

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