Issue: 785

April 18, 2019

View from the Battlefield

Protecting our Precious Institutions – Are we prepared for intensifying racist attacks?

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

I am not from the school that believes love neutralizes hate, or that you pray for your enemies and everything will be alright. I wish it was that simple. Black folks need to go on the offensive and I don’t mean being hyper-vigilant 24/7. That’s the kind of stress that’ll kill you.

News of the cowardly terrorist attack on the Highland Research and Education Center in New Market, TN hit me like a punch in the gut. A…

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Commentary

Education and Economic Independence – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

As Malcolm X used to say, it was our Blackness “which caused so much hell not our identity as Elks, Masons, Baptists or Methodists.” If we are ever to become a liberated people this idea must be deeply rooted in the day to day organizing and mobilizing of our people as we seek economic and educational liberation. Far too many Africans in America have abandoned this idea in their organizing

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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