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December 13, 2018

Color of Law

Israel Should Not Be Allowed to Criminalise BDS in the US

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs works with front groups such as the Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to spy on US citizens who support Palestinian rights and smear them as anti-Semites, in a covert campaign that smacks of McCarthyism and Islamophobia.

In the United States, before the new Congress is seated in January, some legislators hope to pass a piece of legislation that would penalise support for…

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View from the Battlefield

Democrats Up Against the GOP’s Steamrollin’ Coup

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The two-party system is slowing turning into a one-party dictatorship. The checks and balances in the three branches of government—Executive, Legislative and Judicial—are methodically disappearing.

When Roy Cooper won as governor of North Carolina in 2016, the Republic legislature was waiting with a dish of disempowerment. They served up a similar…

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Commentary

Democrats 2020 – Not The Person, But The Program

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Our current President is shrill, sensational and a celebrity in his own mind. Democrats should not attempt to replicate that level of insanity that 45 brings to the table. The issue, also, should not be one of who is the most sensational, but who has the most focused program, and the basis of the Democratic program must be economic justice for working Americans.

Now that the midterm elections are over, and Democrats are savoring their victory, more than a dozen Democrats say they are considering running for President in…

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Commentary

There’s Talk of Impeachment, But What of the Fate of the People?

By John Funiciello Columnist

With every cut in government programs that provide for the most vulnerable among us, Trump and his Republicans will continue to move the wealth of the nation upward, toward the top 10 percent. Already, the disparity in wealth between the top 10 percent and the bottom 90 percent is alarming even those at the top of the income scale.

There has been talk of impeachment of Donald Trump for nearly as long as he has occupied the Oval Office, for unending offenses against the people,…

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Commentary

Are Teacher Unions Imploding from the Inside?

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

Teacher unions must aggressively recruit more allies, as their adversaries are doing to their free market ideology, based on the strength of their message of equity and commitment to our democracy. That was the basis of the Democrats’ midterm victories. That approach needs to be upgraded and expanded among unions, their members, and their staffs.

Classroom teachers and local unions took the lead in challenging the systematic dismantling of public education in 2018. What was unusual was that these walkouts and…

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Commentary

Kevin Hart’s Heartless Apology

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Although Hart’s now a crossover phenom, he still plays largely to a black audience. And, sadly, in 2018 this audience is a demographic group - young, old, church or unchurched - still unevolved and not completely woke to the deleterious effects of homophobia on its community.

While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesn’t have a patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it. And…

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Commentary

House of Shame

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

the story of these underage girls, women in their 20s and 30s now refuses to die behind a door of silence. The women decide to become audible, transgress the norm to remain representative of all that is “unspoken.”

In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, Stamp Paid appears all-knowing, for he believes he knows the whole story. Certainly he’s a man’s “hero,” recognizable, these days, for…

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