793 – Black Commentator

Commentary

Pan Africanism, Reparations, and N`Cobra – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Life is what it is! Divine authority keeps score in heaven as do bosses here on Earth. Retribution and reward become the norm. Nothing is done because anyone cares. Nothing is done out of love. Freedom on this planet isn’t an option. Wait for your eternity in heaven.

Martin H�gglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom Because most people spend little time analysing political events or studying history, democracy will always risks being…

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Commentary

This Week’s Vote at the Chattanooga VW Plant Shows UAW Won’t Give Up – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

Southern Momentum, like other shills of big business usually claim to be the “underdog” in a struggle like VW in Chattanooga, but all of the money and power are on their side and they are most willing to use money, threats, propaganda, and donuts to bring the workers to their side.

More than 1,700 workers at the big Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are voting this week on whether they want to stand up to the right-wing…

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Commentary

Will Public Education Survive the 2020 Presidential Election?

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

if teachers and public education supporters do not take a strong hand in pruning the ‘DemoPublicans’ from the 2020 field, it will not matter whether a Democrat or Trump wins the White House.

Whether they are Republicans or Democrats, the 2020 presidential election will test the will of teachers and other supporters of public education to hold the candidates…

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Commentary

Pan Africanism, Reparations, and N`Cobra – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

It is important that we understand that the idea of Reparations has caught on with the masses of African people worldwide, despite the opposition of the forces of white supremacy.

As we prepare to attend and participate in the historic 30th Annual National Convention of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N`COBRA), it’s…

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Cartoon

War is Peace

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Cartoon

45’s Shrink

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

As Feds Investigate Andrew Gillum, Florida Passes Poll Tax and Ignores Evidence the 2016 Election Was Hacked

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

While the details of his investigation are unknown, the focus on Gillum serves as a reminder of the history of the relationship between the federal government and the Black community. The FBI has a long history of targeting Black leaders and the Civil Rights and Black Power movement through its COINTELPRO program, which was intended to prevent the rise of a Black messiah.

Former Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is the target of a federal investigation as other issues regarding the denial of voting rights and…

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View from the Battlefield

400 Years: A Celebration, Maybe – A Benchmark for Critical Assessment, Definitely

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

These 400 years of mutating slavery is worth uplifting for serious critique. It includes the captivity of a people and our enslavement. It includes Jim Crow and slavery by another name (forced, mainly unpaid labor). It includes all forms of segregation and second-class citizenship. It includes mass incarceration. Many of these manifestations and systems are still current and often co-exist with one another.

This year is the 400th anniversary of Africans being brought to this country as an enslaved people . The anniversary is hardly a celebration. However, it…

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Commentary

The Bleaching of Stonewall

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The Stonewall turbulence started on the backs of working-class African American and Latinx queers who patronized the bar. Those brown and black LGBTQ people are not only absent from the photos of that night, but they have been bleached from its written history.

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that took place from June 27 to 29, 1969, in the Greenwich Village section of…

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Commentary

Injustice Revealed and Dramatized – The Central Park Five

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

I remember one Donald Trump who was so outraged that he spent $85,000 to take out full-page ads asking that five young men get the death penalty for a crime they did not commit. He has yet to apologize. He doesn't do that. He is the one who needs to be incarcerated.

Many know them as the Central Park Five, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay forces to us see the five wrongfully convicted men as individuals. Their names are…

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