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November 15, 2018

Cover Story

The President and the Press: Unhinged Attacks Are Repulsive

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

I don't expect decency from the president, but I am concerned that the press corps has not been more strongly supportive of their colleagues like April Ryan and Jim Acosta. What if, for just one day, every member of the press began her question with, I'm asking this in the name of Jim Acosta? What if they started a question with, “Let me say that my colleague April Ryan is not a loser," this administration would get some sense of press solidarity.

A cursory look at the win-loss column after last week's mid-term elections suggests that nobody left the table empty-handed. Democrats gained control of the House of…

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Commentary

‘Electoral Apartheid,’ Dems Challenge Post 2018 Midterms

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

America’s Republican Party is concerned about the rising numbers of ethnic minorities - Hispanics, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and Alaskan Natives - who are projected, collectively, to become the nation’s majority population by 2040 or earlier.

In the coming months, Democrats will face numerous challenges as they assume majority leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. As noted in my most recent…

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Commentary

Fascism: Deep in the Soil of the United States

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Americans in the United States have to be reminded that white supremacy is the foundational bedrock of this nation. In almost two years now, since Trump’s ascendancy to head entrepreneur of white supremacy, Americans (and the world) have listened to a barrage of racist language from the president and racists and their supporters who have been waiting for the lifting of restrictions on their right to speak openly about people of color.

He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that…

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Commentary

America in Deep Trouble During Trump’s Reign

By John Funiciello Columnist

For the most part, the president has used the same techniques for “governing” as he did to win the Republican primary elections: He used name-calling and base language to whittle down his opponents in the field, all the while steering clear of laying out any positive programs or policies to address the real ills that the country faces.

The national train is off the rails in President Donald Trump's America. There are many indications that prove it, from a self-professed Nazi receiving tens of…

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Color of Law

Sierra Leone Cancels $300 Million Chinese Airport Deal, But Will Other African Nations Follow Suit?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

African countries have accumulated a total of $130 billion in debt from China, and despite claims of non-intervention, leave themselves open to exploitation and arm-twisting, such as China applying pressure to African nations to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan under the “One China” policy.

In the first example of an African nation canceling an already existing Chinese-funded project, the government of Sierra Leone has canceled a plan to build a…

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Commentary

A Queer Look at Jonestown at 40

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The Peoples Temple marched in Gay Pride and embraced a social gospel of radical inclusion. Jones had a sizeable LGBTQ following that kept growing as did his African American audience.

This November 18th marks the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. The mass murder-suicide was the largest casualty of American citizens before 9/11. With forty years…

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Guest Commentary

Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction

By Bob Wing Guest Commentator

The fight against racism is seriously impaired without undertaking the struggle for the South and Southwest. The South, in particular, has more population, more Blacks and Latinos, more congressional representatives and more Electoral College votes than any other region. And its power is growing since it has been the fastest growing region for decades, a trend expected to continue well into the future. Yet progressives have largely ceded those regions to the far right.

(Note: This commentary is excerpted from the introduction Mr. Wing's new book Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction) This piece provides an overview of the…

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Commentary

Revisiting Garvey and Economic Organizing

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Mr. Garvey understood that the foundation of our liberation was economic and educational independence based on racial solidarity. There are numerous lessons we can learn from the legacy of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Without economic independence tied to the acquisition of political power, African people in America and African people everywhere will continue to be the subjects of the whims of other people.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. The organization he founded, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, in Kingston, Jamaica, 1914,…

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