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October 04, 2018

Cover Story

President Laughingstock

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Our President's behavior repels people from the United States instead of attracting people to us. His jingoistic "America First" speech belied decades of international cooperation. His notion that nations are better off going it alone than working in collaboration is isolationist nonsense.

Our 45th President rushed back from his United Nations meeting in New York to watch the hearing of his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and his…

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Dixiecrats

Cartoon

Dixiecrats

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Democrats Need to Scuttle Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS Nomination

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

He would deal a death blow to women’s reproductive rights (which are already under siege) by being the kingpin in overturning Roe v. Wade. BK could retard the voting rights of minorities at the same time they are rapidly becoming the collective U.S. demographic majority. That is one of the reasons the Republicans are pushing for BK to be confirmed for the court term that began this week.

Kavanaugh may be holding a “trump card” to get him onto SCOTUS in that he, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Ray, and White…

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Commentary

The Real Brett Kavanaugh Arrives

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

I’m not comfortable agreeing with others who think women have come a distance since 1991. We live in a world where the young “nephews” are men like Ted Cruz, Stephen Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Brett Kavanaugh. Men in power. Men who take issue with women demanding to be recognized as human beings. Men for whom us people of color and our children need to be in the bedroom, behind walls, or bars.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. He’s a gentleman among gentlemen. With wealth and prestige, he’s highly respected and…

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Color of Law

Bill Cosby’s Fall Ripples Through the #MeToo Movement

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

As Cosby cultivated a squeaky-clean image and father figure persona on television, he also drew the ire of some African-Americans for talking down to the black community, particularly those in poverty. His infamous 2004 speech to the NAACP, known as the “pound cake” speech, may have been his undoing, if not his comeuppance in the eyes of some observers.

“It is time for justice,” Judge Steven T. O’Neill said on Tuesday in sentencing Cosby, 81, to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and…

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Commentary

Fending Off Tyranny

By John Funiciello Columnist

For most of the history of America, the elite have been in charge, but rarely has the electorate had a chance to see on paper that what they have been taught and led to believe is not the way it is. A government of the people, by the people, and for the people is largely a myth and democracy is a fleeting thing in this nation.

There is continuous hand-wringing about those who fail or refuse to vote or participate in the political life of the nation and most of the pundits…

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Commentary

Repairing the Curriculum

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

very little discussion has taken place regarding the continued racism and white supremacy of American public school curriculums. The great movement of the 1960s and 70s put the issue of Black Studies on the American agenda, but like many issues of the 1960s, they have either fallen by the wayside or have been put on the back burner.

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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