Issue: 771
January 10, 2019
Color of Law
Report on Police Violence Against Black People in Toronto Reveals Canada has a Big Race Problem
Executive Editor
The report, issued by the Ontario Human Rights Commission using data from the Special Investigations Unit civilian police review organization, found that between 2013 and 2017, Black people in Toronto were 20 times more likely than their white counterparts to be fatally shot by the Toronto Police Service, or
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a woman heckler that “your racism has no place here,” it turns out he was wrong. The myth of…
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Cover Story
Legalized Recreational Marijuana, Minority Students, and Democrats
Columnist
In those states where recreational marijuana has been legalized, public school students of color in poverty-stricken neighborhoods are at great risk for being further victimized by this drug since the use rate is already high among adults and youth.
Now that the 2018 midterms are in the rear view mirror, it is time to assess their implications for minority students in K-12 public education -…
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Commentary
Ellen, Black LGBTQ Lives Matter, Too!
Editorial Board
There are very few safe places for GBTQ brothers of African descent to safely acknowledging their sexuality as well as to openly engage the subject of their sexualities. Black GBTQ sexualities within African American culture are perceived to further threaten not only black male heterosexuality, but also the ontology of blackness itself.
Nothing exacerbates a problem more than good intentions. And, Ellen DeGeneres’s had no idea the Pandora Box hers opened trying to revive talks for comedian Kevin…
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Commentary
A More Diverse Congress, A More Perfect Union?
Editorial Board
After these last two dystopian years under the leadership of President Genital Grabber (let’s just call him GG), this new Congress offers us many possibilities. May they manifest!
The 116th Congress, sworn in on January 3, is the most diverse our nation has ever seen. There are more women – 102 – than ever…
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Commentary
Behold America’s Nightmare: Dreams of Fascism
Editorial Board
the now of a Trump, announcing the death of the American dream. Don’t worry! America needs me to revive it. Me, the self-made billionaire. And by “American dream,” he means the latter version, the one in which it’s required of the nation and everyone in it to turn inward.
The power of modern America was built on the ruins of institutionalised slavery; the post-bellum generation they called ‘Big Money’ energised the country, galvanised its desires,…
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Commentary
The Strike: Workers’ Ultimate Weapon? – Solidarity America
Columnist
My definition of working class is: Regardless of your income, if you are unable to live for three months without any money coming into the house, you are in the working class. That example cuts across most workers in cities across the nation, but somehow, the significance of that does not penetrate the thinking of Americans. Until it does and until workers act on it in solidarity, all of the small wins will be just that, small wins.
In the heady days of U.S. labor's power, which lasted only a few decades, workers understood the power of the strike, the withholding of their energy,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
2019: The Year of the “Great White Hope”
Columnist
Most of the white fan base across the US is hoping Andrew Luck, Rivers, Brady and the remaining “good ol’ boys” beat-back these black Signal Callers, “take back” the NFL, make it 1963 white again,
America, Trump’s America, yeah . . . they’re sooo-desirous of “Great White Hopes” - it’s honestly disturbing, extremely disturbing . . . to say the very,…
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