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Issue: 739

April 26, 2018

View from the Battlefield

Beyond Racial Profiling: No Place for Black Men

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Protests of the racist incidents by the boys in blue or the boys in the corporate board rooms are not enough. We need coordinated, strategic actions that cut through the policies, laws, attitudes and practices that thwart the full potential of Black males.

Pervasive and persistent racial profiling of African American men is only part of their reality. When Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson entered a Philly Starbucks for…

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Commentary

Predatory Lending is the Tip of the Iceburg

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The new leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency has been pressured to relax payday-lending rules. Several states have bowed to the pressure to support the payday lender that exploit low-income, mostly Black and Brown, communities.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supposed to “protect” consumers from fraud and predatory lending. But since 45 has ruled the roost, he has empowered exploiters…

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Commentary

Can Democrats Stay on Task to Defeat Republicans in 2018?

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

It would be prudent for Democrats to essentially chill in their continuing criticism of the President at every turn as a major party emphasis. There are far more important efforts that they should pursue. First, they need to support teachers, a critical part of their base, in their protests and strikes to fully fund public education, raise their wages, ensure the safety of their students, and defeat the privatization of public education.

Trump surrounded himself with billionaires at his first state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron and First lady Brigitte Macron but neglected to invite his African…

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Commentary

The United States of Guns

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Before the Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018, between January 4th and February 9th, to be exact, 17 school shootings occurred in the US. In the meantime, the firearms industry in the US, consisting of 464 producers of weapons and ammunition, generates $11 billion in revenues!

Hitler’s rise to power was legal in terms of majority rule and neither he nor Stalin could have maintained the leadership of large populations, survived many…

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YO SOY

Cartoon

YO SOY

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The NFL Assist In the Silencing of Black Opinion and Dissent

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The NFL finances the silencing of Black opinion and dissent - be it the branding, barring and banning of Colin Kaepernick or the underwriting of AM Hate radio.

The following letter was sent to the Denver Broncos and NFl Corporate offices. Good day /Denver Broncos There’s no real debate to be had, no real…

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Commentary

Repairing the Curriculum

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

We must not abandon the struggle to demand that the public school curriculums in America be changed to reflect an accurate interpretation of the history, culture, and contributions of African people in math, science, language arts, art, and social studies.

Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in…

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Cover Story

How Capitalism Is Killing Us!

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

Most of us would consider it immoral or even criminal to withhold a life-saving drug merely to extract a profit. So why do American taxpayers support this practice?

This should be a no-brainer: If you had access to a drug that treated a potentially fatal disease and knew someone who didn’t have access but…

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