Issue: 794
June 20, 2019
Color of Law
African Continental Free Trade Area Will Become the World’s Largest Free Trade Zone
Executive Editor
The nations of the African continent are making moves towards unity and shared prosperity. Through the African Continental Free Trade Area, the African Union countries will use trade and investment to leverage their power on the global stage and bring about sustainable development for African people throughout the world.
Africa is on the move, with the nations of that continent joining forces to form a multi-trillion-dollar trading bloc — the world’s largest free trade zone…
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Guest Commentary
Juneteenth: Free At Last?
Guest Commentator
Today, Juneteenth is a vivid historical example that obtaining rights at law does not necessarily confer rights that have actual force. It is for this reason that Juneteenth celebrants are often conflicted.
Ralph Ellison immortalized "Juneteenth: A Novel," the annual celebration of the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when the enslaved Africans in Texas were actually emancipated, in…
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Commentary
A Tale of Two Graduations
Editorial Board
one can hope that the call to "practice humanity" is one that will be heeded. It is, perhaps a sign of the times, that graduates have to be urged to practice humanity, but so much of our world is inhumane, placing profits over people, that the admonition is appropriate.
I love graduations! I thoroughly enjoy the sense of achievement and possibility that permeates the air. Graduations signify an ending, but the term "commencement" is used…
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Commentary
Marx and Martin – This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Editorial Board
Neither Marx nor King could begin to analyze the pursuit of freedom and equality without discussing the wrongs of an economic system that represents the direct opposition of democracy (freedom and equality). However, both thinkers considered ways to disable cruel and unjust policies. Both Marx and King prioritized freedom on Earth rather than eternity in the elsewhere. For both thinkers, capitalism was not a given.
The Negro’s experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards which the white world claims to live James Baldwin,…
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Commentary
All Good Things Must Come To An End, But What About The Bad? – Solidarity America
Columnist
Trump loves dictators, as he has shown with his cozying up to the murderous Saudis, with Duterte of the Philippines, with Kim of North Korea, and many others. He loves their power and wishes he had it. He does not have it, though, and that's a good thing. If power needs to be tempered by truth and justice, those two elements of a civilized society will never be found in the vicinity of Donald Trump.
Reality television shows come and go, some stay for several seasons, but the U.S. has become like a reality show, since the advent of Donald Trump…
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Commentary
Trump’s Campaign Kickoff and Democrats’ Non-Response
Columnist
Democrats appear to have a limited understanding, or ability, to respond to Trump’s mendacity, political strategies, and his stranglehold on the Republican Party. He has unified Republicans in a way that Democrats can only envy as the more than twenty 2020 presidential candidates prepare to take the debate stage.
President Donald Trump’s Florida campaign kickoff Tuesday night reminded me of a scene from the movie, Godfather I, when Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen were at…
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Commentary
The Real Mission of Education – Worrill’s World
Columnist
our purpose for becoming educated should be one of helping to build a movement to liberate us from the oppression of white supremacy and racism so that we can build a new social, political, cultural, economic, and spiritual order for ourselves as we struggle to link up with African people around the world.
We must stop the “Miseducation” of our youth. We must help our youth to redefine the reality of the institutions that affect us. The political behavior…
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