May 03, 2018
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
workers are forced to turn to programs like Medicaid and SNAP to make ends meet, because wages aren’t enough.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that sums up how little he understands about poverty in America. The order, titled “Reducing Poverty in America…
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in 1972 in Gary, Indiana 10,000 Black people participated in the National Black Political Convention in which the call for the development of a Black Independent Political Party was a prominent discussion at this meeting. However, the allegiance of Black elected officials to the Democratic Party prevented any real movement toward the development of a Black Political Party or independent Black Political Organization. Instead, a strategy of the third force inside the Democratic Party was developed.
Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, when African Americans were granted the right to vote, through the 15th Amendment in 1868, electoral politics…
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