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Issue: 762

November 01, 2018

Cover Story

What Are the People To Do When First Amendment Rights Are Canceled?

By John Funiciello Columnist

If Trump convinces more people that birthright citizenship can be overturned, how far behind can the attempt be to neuter our First Amendment rights? That's why it is important to vote next week, although it has been shown that the simple act of voting does not force politicians to act to benefit all of the people. But, it shows that we are watching and acting and they need to know that.

Over the past three or four decades, the people have had a more and more difficult time reaching the politicians who run the country. And that…

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Color of Law

As Coverage Simmers Around Hate-Fueled Kroger Shooting and Increase Around Mail Bomber, Synagogue Shooting, Many Question Double Standard of Sympathy

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

A deadly week of bomb threats and racially-motivated mass shootings revealed that even in the face of white supremacist violence, the Black victims of said violence are rendered invisible, while the white supremacy itself is obfuscated and blame on the part of white supremacists is deflected.

The week of October 22 was a week in which three men committed acts of right-wing, white supremacist terrorism, with two of them committing race-based murder…

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Commentary

Trump’s Encouragement of Violence May Backfire in Midterms

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

He has become a drag on Republican candidates, even in deep red states, with the obvious untruths that he utters with abandon. Trump’s handling of the package bombs and the Tree of Life genocide has reduced his approval rating from 45% to 40%.

The question is whether the general public and Trump’s hard core supporters believe that his rhetoric has gone too far, or will they continue to embrace…

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Terror Vote

Cartoon

Terror Vote

By Mark Hurwitt

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Waiting for White America to Develop a Conscience? Don’t Hold Your Breath

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Trump’s America, Trump’s White America harbors no Conscience. And because that's the fact Jack - cities across America ought induce their city councils to create and enact local legislation which dictates there’s no “open harbor,” no “welcome sign” posted outside the city doors for this illegitimate wanna-be tyrannical dictator.

Without question, there’s no debate about it - America is now 11 months pregnant and ready to blow, the demon child of racism, sexism and elitism…

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Guest Commentary

Rare Genetic Sequences Illuminate Early Humans’ History in Africa

By Dr. Amy Maxmen, PhD Guest Commentator

Little-studied ethnic groups on the continent are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived there tens of thousands of years ago.

Humankind’s early history in Africa is coming into sharper focus with a new study of 180 genomes from a dozen ethnic groups on the continent —…

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Commentary

Halloween: Our American LGBTQ Holiday

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Long before June officially became Gay Pride Month, and October "Coming Out Month" for the LGBTQ community, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated "holiday," dating as far back at the 1970s when it was a massive annual street party in San Francisco’s Castro district.

Halloween is America’s gay holiday. In the words of the lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is "the great gay holiday." And this weekend of…

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Guest Commentary

The Racist Republican Health Care Hustle

By Charles Jaco Guest Commentator

Race has always colored the views of conservative whites when it comes to universal access to health care. A mammoth 2015 study by Cornell Medical Center in New York and the University of Maine found that the primary predictor as to whether someone opposes universal health care is racial prejudice.

If America were an all-white country, we would have had universal health care decades ago. Even though cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are color-blind, conservative whites…

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