Issue: 774
January 31, 2019
Cover Story
African Centered Education and African American History Month – Worrill’s World
Columnist
As we have come full circle today in our general acceptance of being African People, whose ancestral homeland is Africa, we are also beginning to recognize that African American History Month celebrations and activities are great, but the contributions of African people must be emphasized throughout the year.
The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning…
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Commentary
Jailed Transwoman Fought for Her Dignity
Editorial Board
Many states, Massachusetts included, have placed inmates in prison facilities according to their anatomy at birth. This insensitive act has put many transgender inmates in harm's way.
Transgender people are in every facet of life - even prison. Too often, however, because of physical and sexual assaults, and being housed in facilities according…
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Commentary
Open A Book, Explore A World: The Philadelphia African American Children’s Book Fair
Editorial Board
I went to New York City without leaving San Francisco by reading, inhaled parts of the African continent without boarding an airplane through reading, and became livid about issues of economic justice because I had my nose in a book.
We hear the words "national emergency" so often from the bloviator that masquerades as a President that we forget what an emergency really looks like. One…
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Commentary
America is White, Isn’t It?
Editorial Board
Racism is an event: someone calling a black the N-word or the sudden appearance of a noose at an office were a few blacks work. Racism is something that is perpetuated by racists. Everyone knows this! Every one! White supremacy then has nothing to do with the majority of good Americans, who are not offended by “black” music or who converse at lunchtime with a Latina co-worker or who accept the black daughter-in-law.
In light of the foregoing evidence, Thomas Jefferson was either l ying or deluding himself when he told Congress in his Sixth Annual Message in 1806…
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Commentary
Today’s News on Venezuela – Is Just an Old U.S. Story Repeated – Solidarity America
Columnist
Oil was the main economic driver for Chavez' Bolivarian Revolution. Some of the difficulty with the oil economy has something to do with Saudi Arabia's overproduction of oil that has driven down the prices of oil from around $100 a barrel, to less than $30 a barrel. Saudi Arabia is an “ally” of the U.S. and has been largely protected from international criticism by Trump.
The U.S. government's work-in-progress of removing a democratically elected president of a developing country, Venezuela in this case, and replacing him with a “president” that will…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Unquestionably the NFL Owners Would Like to Take Back the NFL and Make It White Again
Columnist
Trump’s jock supporters want to “take-back” their NFL and make it white . . . as it profoundly and purposefully was in say 1938 - when no Blacks were permitted to play.
Just as King Trump’s sinister mission is to “take back America and make it white again . . .” the NFL owners would like to “take-back”…
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Commentary
Charles Koch’s 2019 Agenda for Privatizing Public Education
Columnist
Koch and his Cartel of super rich education reformers are basically implementing the 1956 southern manifesto, the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” which was designed to defy the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education which desegregated the public schools and to mandate continued separation of the races.
The Koch Bros. have been reduced to one in 2019 as David Koch, for health reasons, has formally stepped away from the Koch business empire and…
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View from the Battlefield
In the Spirit of Dr. King’s Legacy: Let’s Stop the Perpetrators
Editorial Board
King had many profound insights about life in the U.S. that can still inform our quest for racial and economic justice. Because the mainstream media has us stuck on dreaming, it has taken years to uncover the nuggets of wisdom in King’s many speeches and writings that expose the barriers to peace and prosperity for all American citizens.
In 2008, the then-mayor of St. Louis was invited to speak at the annual MLK celebration. He was booed so loudly that he couldn’t continue his…
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