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Issue: 746

June 14, 2018

Cover Story

Teachers, Democrats, Legalizing Marijuana, and the 2018 Midterms

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

the current push is for legalization which will make a large number of white businessmen rich. Proposals to permit marijuana sales for recreational purposes are now sweeping the nation, and they have led to legalization in nine states (WA, OR, NV, CA, CO, HI, VT, MA, ME, and Washington, D.C.) for those over the age of 21. But the promises of targeted social uplift for low-income, substantially unemployed communities of color are vastly overstated.

Even this non-descript, supposed political breakthrough will likely be embraced by Trump’s base and the some Democrats (Sen. Bernie Sanders has commented on it favorably) because…

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Color of Law

Intolerant Whites Prefer Authoritarian Rule If Democratic Rule Means Granting Rights to Minorities

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The white supremacist concept of white genocide — that white people are an endangered species and the victims of racial discrimination in education and employment and all facets of life — is reflected in the current policies of the U.S. government.

The history of America is one of democracy for white male landowners and enslavement for Black people, with the latter struggling for the rights enshrined in…

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Commentary

In American Discourse, There Was Something Wrong with Someone Like Anthony Bourdain!

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The corporate bosses as well as the corporate advertisers are kept happy. Keep the American public sedated with the image of the “bad guy” within. It’s all so personal - Bourdain’s “demons,” his “dark side.” This justification of why he committed suicide plays well with commentators (and their corporate bosses) and guest appearance of experts on mental health (often linked with Big Pharma)

But we tell people, this is in our hand. It’s in our hand. It’s our future. And the future of the next generation coming. from Anthony…

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Commentary

The Employment Situation is Improving, So Why Aren’t Workers Dancing

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

To be sure, much of the improvement in the labor market can be attributed to the Obama recovery. President Obama put everything in place to ensure that the labor market improved. Still, it would be churlish to deny that some 45-inspired policies may have improved the employment situation.

The most recent unemployment rate report seems to contain nothing but good news. The overall unemployment rate is down to 3.8 percent, the lowest that it…

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Commentary

U.S. Included In Global Measurement of Poverty and Missing Human, Civil and Political Rights

By John Funiciello Columnist

as the peoples gather to demand an end to poverty and deprivation in America, they need to read the Alston report to the U.N. and therefore, to the world, which shows that, among the so-called developed world, the U.S. is not doing well and its direction is downward, especially with an erratic and unpredictable narcissist at the helm.

When the statistics are rolled out for all the world to see, poor people are usually enumerated by the amount of money they live on each…

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Israeli Logic

Cartoon

Israeli Logic

By Carlos Latuff

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Commentary

What’s Happening to Pride?

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Pride is about the varied expressions of the life, gifts, and talents of the entire community. But the divisions in our communities during Pride also show us something troubling and broken within ourselves. And, last year a black queer resistance rose up -across the country and beyond- denouncing the glib notion that “gay is the new black.”

I like to say there was something in the air why Pride 2017- here and abroad- was one of the most contentious event in its history.…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

How Long Before White America Wakes-Up and Realizes Trump is a Big Apple Pimp, Who’s Pimping Them?

By Desi Cortez Columnist

“what’s best” for the white American elite, or even the White rank n’ file isn’t, dig this - the best thing for the world!” Honestly, catering to the best interest of white America means doing it at the expense of everyone else . . .. the pimping and exploiting of everyone else.

How long? Someone, anyone who has their finger on the heartbeat of white America, which is Trump’s nameless, faceless “base” - how long before before they…

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Commentary

A Message to African American Graduates

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

we must stop killing each other over bruised egos, over material items and drugs that other people manufacture and bring into our communities. We must stop the killing!

Once again, I am sharing my annual graduation speech in hopes that it will help African people in America understand the real meaning of these rites…

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