Issue: 790
May 23, 2019
Color of Law
Why the ‘One Percent’ in the US is Worried
Executive Editor
Solutions to economic inequality and the excesses of American capitalism are necessary to save capitalism from itself, or better yet, to save people from capitalism.
Inequality in the United States has reached such levels lately that even members of the "one percent" have started worrying. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates…
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Commentary
The Anniversaries of May 17th are Bittersweet
Editorial Board
This year on May 17th marked the fifteenth anniversary of marriage equality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Looking back at advances such as hate crime laws, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and DOMA, the legalization of marriage equality, anti-homophobic bullying becoming a national concern, to name a few, the LGBTQ community has come a long way since the first Pride marches.
When you reside at the intersections of multiple identities, anniversaries of your civil rights struggles can be both bitter and sweet. And, May 17th was a…
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Commentary
Forget the Adversity Score, Just Dump the S.A.T
Editorial Board
This fall, more than 150 colleges will use the adversity-enhanced SAT in their admissions process. Based on those results, more colleges will use the score to measure adversity. I know lots of folks who consider the development of an adversity score good news. It would be much better news if colleges and universities simply decided to stop using the SAT.
The College Board, the organization that develops and administers the SAT test, has developed a new "adversity score" to augment the widely used college admissions examination.…
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Commentary
Harassment of Black Americans in the Trump Era of White Supremacy
Editorial Board
Donald Trump’s election to the presidency enables haters within the borders and “beyond” because no sovereign nation in Africa or Asia, in the Caribbeans or South America, is really beyond the watchful gaze of white supremacy. No sovereign land in worlds consisting of majority black or Brown, Indigenous or Asian is really safe from an unleashing of fear and hatred.
To her surprise, she found she could not rent a building in which she proposed to have Negro aides unless they were servants! Ida B. Wells,…
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Commentary
Worker Groups Not Affiliated With Unions Serve Constituents, But Are They A Force? – Solidarity America
Columnist
Who perpetrated this war on workers? There's long list, but mostly it has been the rich, Corporate America, right-wing think tanks, newspapers, television programming and commercials, whole fields of academic studies that purport to be scholarly.
They do good work. Some of them do great work. They have gained justice and decent pay for most of their constituents, but do they point…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Trump’s America Wants Segregated Planes with Seating for Blacks and Mexicans in the Back
Columnist
What Trump’s rank n’ file desire is to have absolute control back over “their” women. And they want a form of tit-for-tat vengeance because they believe women are behind the national movement to take away their personal machine guns, bazookas and tanks.
Never more than now have I been as frustrated as I am right here and right now. For years, most of my adult caramel life I’ve…
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Commentary
Democrats’ Challenges for Black Voters in 2020
Columnist
Republican focus on uniting their base and refining their voter turnout methods, and Trump’s development and exploitation of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments. Democrats are na�ve in their lack of understanding that Republicans are systematically moving the nation toward economic, political, and judicial Apartheid in plain sight.
Black voters were targeted for suppression by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 voting rights decision, Shelby County (AL) v. Holder, and Russian trolls on the Internet…
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