Issue: 795

June 27, 2019

Commentary

Joe Biden, ‘The Son,’ and Cory

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

It is paradoxical that Booker has been Biden’s staunchest critic since he has been supported by the same conservative Wall Street financiers who back Biden and whose predecessors also backed Sens. Eastland and Talmadge. Moreover, Booker has supported school vouchers and traditional and corporate charter schools, as has Biden, who was a point man for charters during the Obama administration.

The contretemps between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker, 2020 Democratic primary presidential candidates, were front and center last week. Biden made remarks…

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Commentary

Remembering Kwamé Turé – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

was one of the three hundred “Freedom Riders” that were arrested “in Mississippi and Alabama during the Spring and Summer of 1961. From that point on, Kwam� participated in every major campaign that emerged.

Kwam� Tur� (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) was born on June 29, 1941 in Trinidad. He moved to New York with his parents at a young age. We…

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