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April 12, 2018

Cover Story

When Is It Called Fascism?

By John Funiciello Columnist

A study of fascism is required to understand the implications of such a political philosophy, as there is more than one way to look at it, but the simple definition attributed to Mussolini back in the early part of the last century is not far off the mark: It's when corporate interests and power are melded with national (government) interests and power. The U.S. meets many of the criteria in 2018.

The signs have been there for some time and many observers and analysts have said that the U.S. is drifting toward fascism, although most of those…

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Commentary

Will the Hud Secretary Enforce the Fair Housing Act?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

45 does not seem to be high on finding qualified people to run HUD. The New York HUD administrator, Lynn Patton, was Eric Trump’s wedding planner!

The Fair Housing Act was passed a week after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. President Lyndon Johnson encouraged Congress to pass the legislation as…

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The African World

The Forgotten Dr. Martin Luther King

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The forgotten Dr. King, then, was a leader who was attempting to unite a workers movement with a racial justice movement with a movement for global human rights. He knew and stated that there was violence inherent in the existing system and, indeed, that the USA was the greater purveyor of violence on the planet. He knew and stated that the system, as currently constructed, could not meet the needs of the majority of its population. And, he knew and stated that the job of social justice activists and social revolutionaries was to ceaselessly make the lives of the comfortable uncomfortable.

Commemorations are always complicated. How someone or something is remembered is never just about the facts but about how the legacy is related over time, most…

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Commentary

MLK and the Worthy Fight

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

On the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s death, the national ceremonies honoring his memory - featuring the sanctimonious and reflections on the days leading up to Dr. King’s death - failed to see the elephant had long taken center stage.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of…

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Trump Tax

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Trump Tax

By Mark Hurwitt

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Color of Law

Students and Teachers Need Resources, Not Armed Camps

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

When society retrofits its schools with the look and feel of correctional institutions, it sends a message that our children are prison ready, and this is the future we have carved out for them.

The rise of the #NeverAgain movement — hatched from the grief and anger of the survivors of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland,…

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Commentary

Ongoing Barriers to Success of Teacher Strikes and Protests

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

Teachers are facing barriers to the current success of their strikes and protests as they have to decide whether to confront or support their traditional Democratic allies over broken promises for public education.

Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for reelection in 2018 as he allegedly wants to spend more time with his family. But the real reasons are:…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Racial and Cultural “Irreconcilable Differences” Will Sabotage 21st Century America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Why can’t we ship, pay for, offer a vast array of financial/educational incentives to leave - to the most disgruntled and combustible white folks, the 'Archie Bunker' clones to Australia, Poland, Eastern bloc countries, . . . Russia, where they might feel more comfortable in a land relatively devoid of black and brown people?

Donald Trump isn’t the real problem, he’s a manifestation of the problem. The problem is most, if not the vast majority of white men can’t, won’t,…

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