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Issue: 744

May 31, 2018

Commentary

Teachers, Millennials, Minorities, Democrats, and the Midterms

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

Public school teachers are waking up every day angry, impatient, and increasingly militant. They are challenging politicians, many in parties they have historically supported, to address their concerns about class size, pensions, benefits, and school funding.

Trump’s aggressive denial of any collusion with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign strongly appeals to his base and is gaining traction in the larger American…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Trump’s Undisguised and Blunt Message to Black Americans Is . . . “Get Out!!!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

That racist, elitist exclusionary sentiment: 'maybe they shouldn’t be in this country' is widely held and widespread throughout white America. Additionally this 'Klansman wet-dream' about some black exodus, can be, and believe me, is applied-to and pertains-to all black folks, not just black NFL gladiators.

OMG, we Black folks are no longer the noble and decent “opposition,” but rather, now today, in big bad-ass Trump’s America, we’re the non-patriotic, ungrateful “enemy”…

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Commentary

Remembering Jitu K. Weusi

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

“Jitu was/is a central figure in the design, expansion and governance of The East organization, in both concrete and ideational terms. Conceptually, The East was a counter hegemonic act toward European cultural and political imperialism through its embodiment of African cultural resistance and reconstruction in the American context.”

My long time friend for over forty years and comrade in the struggle for African Liberation worldwide, Jitu Weusi, made his transition on Wednesday, May 23,…

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Color of Law

As America Punishes Its People, Is U.S. Democracy On Its Deathbed?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Nearly 60 percent of Americans say today is the lowest point in U.S. history. Moreover, most respondents (63 percent) say the future of the country is their most significant source of stress, while nearly six in 10 are stressed from America’s social division.

The signs are all around us. Something is not right in America. The country is a traumatic place for millions, triggering stress among wide swaths of…

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Jack Johnson

Cartoon

Jack Johnson

By Chuck Siler

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View from the Battlefield

Trump All Up in The NFL Board Room – Activist Players Forced to Locker Room?

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The NFL is na�ve to think that sending Black men to a locker room like they’re naughty boys is a solution. These men are of African descent before they are athletes. I can’t wait to see what acts of creative resistance will come from the brothas in the locker room

"African American athletes are still black in America. You still risk everything, including your life. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to make a statement."…

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Commentary

Stacey Abrams – Standing On Strong Shoulders

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Her New Georgia is credited with increasing voter turnout and registering as many as 200,000 new voters. While the estimates vary (with some saying that the numbers are not as robust as Abrams reports, the fact is that the New Georgia Project is effective, but must be even more so if Abrams is to prevail.

I am among the millions who are ecstatic that Stacey Abrams won the Democratic nomination for governor in Georgia. She didn’t just win, she rocked, clobbering…

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Commentary

White Landscapes and “The Most Intolerable Anxiety”

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

So many white Americans suffer from 'the most intolerable anxiety' whenever black Americans speak about identity. It’s this 'intolerable anxiety' that makes for the necessity of producing white landscapes - visible when whites in the United States declare their race more 'American' than any other race, certainly more than any 'immigrant' population.

Then I closed my eyes. At some point while I was asleep it started to snow, and I am sure I was aware of it, in…

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Commentary

When You’re a Wage Slave in Prison, Where Do You Go If You Cross The Bosses’ Line?

By John Funiciello Columnist

There have been charges of “wage slavery” for many years, but the demands of private prison corporations that imprisoned immigrants work for pennies is the most glaring example of wage slavery, bordering on outright slavery.

There is not much discussion of wage slavery in the mainstream media or in the halls of academia, although it should be taught and learned from…

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