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April 19, 2018

Color of Law

Comey is Exactly Right About Trump Being Like a Mob Boss

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Demanding complete loyalty from subordinates, exerting absolute control and caring only about his own needs and interests, Donald Trump behaves like a mob boss rather than a democratic leader. Mob bosses are also a form of cult leadership.

(CNN) In his new book, "A Higher Loyalty," former FBI Director James Comey characterized President Donald Trump as a Mafia kingpin who has a warped notion…

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Commentary

Starbucks Fails Racial Equity Test

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

As well intentioned and sincere the CEO may be, and I have no reason to doubt his intentions, he offers nothing that would lead a black person to believe that these actions will result in a significant change in the behavior of Starbucks employees.

And third, to reassure you that Starbucks stands firmly against discrimination or racial profiling. In the coming days, I will be joining our regional vice president,…

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Commentary

Another Black Harvard Man Arrested

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

you wonder if he were a white student standing naked and obviously in distress along Cambridge Common in Harvard Square would he have been so dehumanized and humiliated.

I reside in Cambridge. And, the last time an unarmed black Harvard man in Cambridge was arrested, it made the news. It was when renowned Harvard…

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Guest Commentary

Superior College Accetpance Achievement by a Black Man Ridiculed by White Racists

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

I was appalled to see three adults regardless of race or gender, attacking and insulting a teenager for achieving an highly unlikely goal where the odds of success are highly futile at best. A sad commentary on their part for sure.

Anyone familiar with the rituals of college life, knows that we are in the midst of college acceptance/rejection season. Last week, Lamar High School student Michael…

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Guest Commentary

The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia University Ruling Class, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD—and won!

- V.I. Lenin The Columbia University Struggle of 1968, 50 years ago, was in fact a Struggle against Columbia University—as a ruling class slumlord, a racist…

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Commentary

Teachers and Democrats Keys to Victory in 2018 Midterms

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

Too often, the Democrats teachers have supported have said one thing during campaign season and done another after they have ascended to and/or have been returned to office, e.g., Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, released a composite sketch of the man she says threatened her in 2006 over her affair with…

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Paul Ryan

Cartoon

Paul Ryan

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Will the Lame Duck Quack?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Speaker Paul Ryan says he did what he came to do in Washington – he shepherded through a tax reform bill that “simplified” our taxes. But the man who was known as a deficit hawk also passed out corporate goodies as if they were girl scout cookies, and had a role in increasing the deficit to more than a trillion dollars.

The rats are leaping off the sinking ship! Paul Ryan says he wants to spend more time with his teenagers, but he likely also doesn't want…

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Commentary

Women: Separate and Unequal

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Women understand structural bias toward men (white men, in particular). Women recognize this institutionalization of gender bias in language. Women acknowledge the ways women have been trained/educated to believe in and therefore play the role of an abiding companion within a patriarchal narrative.

When the feminists began to be very articulate and write articles and march and go to meetings in camps and have magazines and so on, I…

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