Issue: 802
Jan 23, 2020
Cover Story
2020 Democrats, Diversity, and Michael Bloomberg?
Columnist
The Democratic front runners, Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Butttigieg, although having led in different polls, have not, to date, demonstrated the political skills and understanding of the electorate necessary to defeat President Trump.
The contest for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is rapidly moving toward its first major test in the February 3rd Iowa Democratic caucuses. With a dozen…
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Commentary
Pressley Disrupts Eurocentric Aesthetic About Hair
Editorial Board
African American women and girls endure some of the harshest punishments concerning our hair, thereby permitting racist workplaces, institutions and educators to discriminate against us without repercussion.
Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley revealed she has the autoimmune disorder “alopecia areata” that has rendered her hairless. Pressley revealing her bald head publicly opened the troubling…
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Guest Commentary
All Hail the Revolutionary King
Guest Commentator
One of King’s revolutionary observations– that is still painfully relevant today–was, “the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land.”
Every year, until The Revolution comes again, the Counter-revolution trots out the historic birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King as their symbol of Black "integration" into…
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Commentary
Race for Profit
Editorial Board
The right to property meant something different for a people who had once been property. To own meant being a human being. African Americans faced obstacles to the purchase of a home—until the 1970s.
Angela Davis, “Underexposed: Photography and Afro-American History,” Century of Black Photographers, 1840-1960 [T]he underlying cause of urban slums is that the residents are too poor to…
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Commentary
King Was One in a Long Line of Resisters and Slave Rebels – Solidarity America
Columnist
It's time for real history, not the mythological history of great and powerful leaders and the conquerors and the rich. What is important is for all Americans to know what the people have paid to make this country what it is. It's time for them to share in its largess.
It is heartening to see the Martin Luther King celebrations that occurred last week across the country to honor one of the nation's true heroes and…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
What If Trump Received “0%” of the Black Vote Come November?
Columnist
If we place as big a priority on ‘politics’ as we do sports, music and watching ‘The Real Minstrels and Sapphires of any-hood USA . . .’ we might be able to save Black America from half mad white folks.
Please, just for grins n’ giggles, ponder this empire altering point; what if the pawns, the small, simple-minded but extremely useful idiots who, as Black folks,…
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Commentary
We Must Never Surrender Our Culture – Worrill’s World
Columnist
“If there is a major illness among African American people it is that we unceasingly honor and utilize our culture less. All great nations and people do the opposite.”
Our late, great ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people…
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