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Issue: 751

July 19, 2018

Commentary

Waiting for Elvis

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

It currently seems as if the George Wallace of his prime years as the Democratic Governor of Alabama has not only returned but has taken over the White House, appointing to advisory positions and offices and even the Supreme Court, any and all who will shout with him unabashedly, “Segregation now, segregation forever!” No longer is he or his supporters limited to standing at the front door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama.

This stereotype of sixties youth as progressive and permissive... most young people in the nineteen sixties did not march for civil rights or protest the war…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

A Mindless, Heartless, Spineless Pinocchio Having His Strings Pulled by the Strong and Powerful Geppetto

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Putin and his puppet are making the world white again, re-entrenching white domination and manipulation of the globes human and natural resources. We have Manifest Destiny and Euro-Colonialism in the 21st century.

Trump’s summit, well gee, it was like watching a mindless, heartless, spineless 72 year-old wooden Pinocchio having his strings pulled by the “strong and powerful” Geppetto,…

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Commentary

Harvesting New Generations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

the more we began to emulate our former slave masters, the worse the internal social conditions of the African-American became. Today these conditions are at an all-time low. We have thousands of African-American children today who have had virtually no positive family input into their development.

The impact of African people being captured in the slave trade and introduced into the western hemisphere as property and commodity are at the root of…

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