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March 21, 2019

View from the Battlefield

Dear White People, It’s Me Again

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

A major political and cultural shift to the right came with the election of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. president. We’re coming up on the fifth anniversary of the Ferguson Uprising. This year will mark the 400th anniversary of my people’s kidnapping to these shores. How are we assessing our past and applying the hard-learned lessons to our future?

Dear white people, It’s me again. You haven’t heard from me since the Ferguson street actions ended. A lot has happened since 2014 but not a…

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Guest Commentary

Bribing and Cheating To Get Into Prestigious Universities

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

it also tarnishes the brands of those schools as having lowered their standards to allow in unqualified students; ironically that’s what’s been said about qualified students of color when they began getting into these schools.

The following piece is a recent co-authored interview/article that took place between me and Mr. Terry Howard The college admissions scandal, in which 50 people including…

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Commentary

The Sharpsville Massacre Must Be Remembered – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Just as the African in American Community in this country demonstrated and subjected themselves to arrest in the south during the 1950s and 1960s to protest racist segregation laws, African people in the Sharpsville area of South Africa, in 1960, began organizing to demonstrate against the white supremacist Pass Laws System.

One of the tragedies of post apartheid South Africa is that too much is being forgotten of the numerous atrocities that occurred during the vicious era…

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