Issue: 781
March 21, 2019
Color of Law
In Some Major Cities Black DAs Have Arrived, But Will They Help Change the Criminal Justice System?
Executive Editor
A look at the national landscape brings into focus the importance of having Black prosecutors in office. According to the Reflective Democracy Campaign, 95 percent of the more than 2,400 elected prosecutors across the country are white — 85 percent of whom run unopposed — and 79 percent are white men. Meanwhile, only 4 percent are men of color, and 1 percent are women of color.
The vast majority of elected prosecutors in America are white, particularly white men, which stands as a barrier to equal justice and an engine of mass…
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Cover Story
Cory Booker, School Choice ‘Trojan Horse’ for Privatization
Columnist
In an increasingly progressive-oriented Democratic Party, Booker is scrambling with an ‘electric slide’ dance routine to change his political colors. But so far, it has not resulted in his rising in the national polls, where he hovers around three percent.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is the 2020 Democratic ‘Trojan Horse’--a stealth candidate for conservative proponents who have spent tens of billions of dollars on initiatives to…
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Commentary
Let’s Call the White Terrorists Out
Editorial Board
What if Black, Brown (Muslim, Palestinian, Latino) and Jewish people decided to fight the white supremacy that permeates our nation? Then, do you think, we could all get along? We may not all agree, but we must call out the WHITE TERRORISM that leaves too many dead or maimed. We must say "enough" to a President who fans the flames of white nationalism, thus white terrorism, for sport and to inflame his base.
An Australian white nationalist man who says he hates immigrants acted out his hate by murdering at least 49 people and seriously injuring at dozens more.…
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Commentary
Remembering Josephine Baker
Editorial Board
Josephine Baker is witness to how America’s cultural narratives, generation after generation, rejecting the reality of black humanity, sanctions a campaign of terrorism against Africans Americans.
Josephine Baker ‘You MUST get an education. You MUST go to school, and you MUST learn to protect yourself!’ Josephine Baker in Josephine Baker, Catel Muller…
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Commentary
Americans are Being Poisoned and Charged a Fortune for the Cure – Solidarity America
Columnist
Contamination of water and air and soil and adding to the worst mass extinction the world has seen in millions of years. All of this is less than than the tip of the Trumpian iceberg, but he doesn't care as long as money can be made by the rich through his efforts. What he doesn't seem to have noticed is that humans are a part of what is being destroyed and he has visited even more suffering on the American people.
There is a connection between the degradation of the human environment and the cost of the medications that will mitigate, if not cure, the maladies caused…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Does Trump Have an Army of Racist and Sexist Cops, Soldiers, Bikers and Construction Workers?
Columnist
The President of these barely United States of America is threatening to unleash the bloodthirsty Minutemen and women of the “Invisible Empire” upon Americans of color
The Rednecks are coming! The Rednecks are coming! The Rednecks are here! Oh my God! Might it be true King Trump really is amassing an army…
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