Issue: 791
May 30, 2019
Color of Law
A Witch Hunt? Black Jewish Activist Jackie Walker Ousted from British Labour Party for Advocating for Holocaust Memorial Day to Include Victims of Transatlantic Slave Trade
Executive Editor
What we know is there is a building campaign against anti-Zionists. The victims are Blacks and Jews. Recently Netanyahu announced millions of shekels to fund anti-BDS groups around the world.
Black politicians, academics and activists face pressure and punishment in the U.S. for their opposition to the Israeli occupation and support for Palestinian rights, including figures…
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View from the Battlefield
Lawlessness in Action – #StoptheBans
Editorial Board
As a Black, voting woman, I have serious concerns about my right to exist as a free citizen with all the protected fundamental rights including the power over my own body.
#StoptheBans Recently, a Black woman report to the local consumer affairs reporter that her mentally and developmentally challenged sister had come up pregnant at the facility…
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Commentary
Trans Deaths are Real Deaths
Editorial Board
In one week this May, three transwomen of African descent were murdered- Michelle Washington, 40, Claire Legato, 21, and Muhlaysia Booker, 23. As I draw attention to these sisters, several this year in 2019 have been murdered, and, sadly, many more will be murdered.
In a suburb just outside of Dallas, and to the disbelief of many - straight and LGBTQ - across the country, a transgender mural is painted…
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Commentary
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
Christianity Doesn’t Do Critical Thinking
Editorial Board
Religion takes away our mental capacity to soar on our own to feel, to think critically about how we as human beings want to live on this planet, among other species, without destroying and causing unnecessary suffering to ourselves.
“These are revolutionary times.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Time to Break the Silence” It’s so horribly different today. It seems, everyone hates. The Christians do,…
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Commentary
Herero Genocide: Why do these Crimes Continue to be Committed? – Solidarity America
Columnist
As populations of rich countries, capitalist countries, grow and their land is played out for the production of food, both governments and their global corporations are roaming the world and grabbing land and resources at an ever-increasing pace.
The Herero Genocide is a little-known crime that is considered to be the first genocide of the 20th Century and the question is why do little…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
White America Needs a King
Columnist
Everyday People will be forced-to work for peanuts if the “investor class” which values profits more than people have their selfish way. “Breadwinner” jobs, producing “livable wages” which enable the average American to handle a out-of-the blue $500 emergency without a pawn shop or payday loan shark’s “help” - that day will never come.
White America needs a “King” to save them from their “well-earned” fate and destiny . . . And if Trump becomes King, . . . god…
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