763 – Black Commentator

Color of Law

Florida Ballot Measure Restores Voting Rights To 1.5 Million Formerly Incarcerated People

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Florida’s felon disenfranchisement law dates back to 150 years ago, when white elites were faced with the prospect of thousands of new black voters rendering white men a minority of the state’s voting electorate. A lifetime voting ban on people with a felony record muted black political power, with a racialized regime targeting black men and singling them out for punishment with trumped-up charges and crimes designed solely for them.

Amid the highlights of the US midterm election results—apart from the Democratic victories in Congress--was the triumph for voting rights in the state of Florida. The…

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Cartoon

US Midterms

By Zapiro

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View from the Battlefield

Mid-Terms Show Flaws of Democrats

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Progressives also need to step back and think about how we’re going to build political power in this current climate and despite the Democrats. The midterm elections show that our strategy and tactics could use some polish.

Remember that camp song some us learned? “Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.” We may need to create…

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Commentary

Midterms Hold Trump Accountable and Tell Us Who We Are

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

Since Trump has come out swinging after the midterms, firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and installing a flunky replacement who will fire or restrict the duties of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Democrats must be strategic in their responses. They need to be patient and not fall into Trump’s trap of creating a scenario where he pits himself as the victim against the radical, left-wing Democrats.

Finally, the midterms are almost over with a few remaining races still to be decided: Georgia’s gubernatorial race where provisional ballots are still being counted; Arizona…

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Commentary

It’s Time to Start the Restoration of Democracy

By John Funiciello Columnist

Trump and his friends and colleagues in Corporate America do not want anything to interfere with their quest for profits. It's not surprising, since the only god Trump recognizes is mammon, the god of money. He has lived for it and he knows nothing else, and it is why he has no capacity for empathy or sympathy with the people of the long march or the poor in his own country.

Now that the mid-term elections are over, the real work begins. In our politics, it should be the work of all people of good will to…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Black America is Confronted with the Fierce Urgency of Now

By Desi Cortez Columnist

believe America’s illegitimate king, by openly declaring his “nationalist” heart, mind and soul for all the world to see and hear a few weeks ago “awakened” the “dead-heads” in the hood and the barrio, lit a fire under their disinterested behinds and sent scores upon scores to the polls.

King Trump was rightfully kicked in his political testicles on November 6th, 2018, consequently he’s now “post” midterm elections - a mortally wounded caveman. l plead…

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Cartoon

Stuffing the Ballot Box

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Hate and Horror – When Does It Stop?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

It is futile to think that a man who uses hateful rhetoric as his stock in trade will back down, even as it is clear that the rhetoric is working. It is pointless to think that Republicans will call him to task because they are gaining too much from his hate.

As strange as it seems, I now view the Bush years with nostalgia. Both Big Bush (POTUS 41) and his son Shrub (POTUS 43) incurred the…

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Cartoon

Man Who Votes

By Chuck Siler

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Cartoon

Insured to be Sick

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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