Issue: 778
February 28, 2019
Color of Law
What Were Armed White Men With Rifles, Pistols and Drones Doing In Haiti?
Executive Editor
Haiti has suffered a great deal after it threw off the shackles of enslavement and colonial rule and became the first Black republic. The recent events with heavily armed white men arrested in Port-au-Prince and returned to America without consequences provide evidence that the U.S. continues to disrupt Haiti in a neocolonial fashion, just as it once occupied the Caribbean country and imposed its will with the violence of military force.
Eight men with an arsenal of weapons and military gear, including U.S. Navy SEALs and military veterans, were arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for roaming around with…
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Cover Story
Four Hundred Years and We Still Ain’t Clear: Distortions of Black History
Editorial Board
We have been here at least 400 years, but we still aren't clear about the nonsense and exploitation that affects and infuses our very foundation. Our entire nation needs to go back to school to learn some history.
According to some historians, Afrodescendents first entered these united states in 1619 off the coast of Virginia. If we believe that narrative, Afrodescendents have been in…
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Commentary
Could Smollet’s Hate Crime Affect Public Perception of Hate Crimes?
Editorial Board
all reports of hate crimes should be taken seriously. One hoax is no excuse for law enforcement not to do their job and see each case as a separate incident irrespective of the court of opinion.
Fox TV drama “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett plays on the show the gay character Jamal Lyon. In real life, Smollett is an African American gay male.…
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Commentary
They Feared for Their Safety
Editorial Board
There’s something to fear when progress means the accumulation of well-lighted plantations. This isn’t the way toward social democracy and justice!
The spectacle of mass movement draws attention inevitably to the borders, the porous places, the vulnerable points where Toni Morrison For many, the approach of an…
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Commentary
Eli Broad’s Takeover of Urban Public Education and Strikes
Columnist
Broad has systematically launched a draconian assault on K-12 public education teachers and the institution itself, while Democratic elected officials, especially the 2020 presidential candidates, have largely remained silent.
Eli Broad, the California multi-billionaire advocate and promoter of the privatization of public education, has been systematically taking over urban public school districts from coast to…
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Commentary
Why They Owe Us! – Worrill’s World
Columnist
We should “Never Forget” that “They Owe Us!” Part of our internal repair is to consciously understand that “We Are Owed” and that we have a historic responsibility to demand reparations from those forces of white supremacy that continue to benefit from what they did to us and that lingers on as part of the vestiges of our
Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations and what it means to our continued struggle in America for self-determination,…
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