Issue: 804
Feb 06, 2020
Color of Law
An Impeachment Trial With No Witnesses or Evidence is Very American
Executive Editor
If the Republicans hope for an end run around democracy with a kangaroo court, this is nothing new. Following in the footsteps of those who played a part in sham trials in the Jim Crow South, the Trump party cares little about justice, and everything about breaking the rules to maintain power in perpetuity. Unfortunately, sham trials are as American as apple pie.
(CNN)The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is a relative rarity in American political history, and yet aspects of it have the haunting familiarity of a…
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Cover Story
Everybody’s Got the Right to Live
Editorial Board
we seem to accept poverty as something we can do nothing about. We walk by homeless people on the street, drive past homeless encampments under freeways. Some of us roll up our noses and are appalled by the odors that some homeless emit without wondering why there are odors and whether there are places where they can get showers or a bath.
More than nine hundred people crowded into the Church of the Epiphany, an Episcopal church in Washington, DC. They had gathered to hear Rev. William Barber,…
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Commentary
The Old Colossus
Editorial Board
Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge,” uttered by none other than a descendant of Italians and Irish, the Principle Deputy Director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli.
‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to…
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Commentary
Trump-Netanyahu “Peace Plan” Dead on Arrival – Solidarity America
Columnist
If the plan, announced this week by U.S. President Donald Trump, were to be carried out, it would mimic South Africa's apartheid system, subjugation of the majority of that country's people.
There is no Nelson Mandela in Palestine and that's unfortunate, for there is a crying need for such a leader in the 70-year-old crisis of Israeli…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Few Black and Brown Folks Will Shed a Tear for Rush Limbaugh
Columnist
The industry has been co-opted and monopolized by half-mad racist, sexist and elitist white men like Rush - who is the Grand Pooh-Bah of hate radio. You may not like him, you may despise him, nevertheless he is good, very good at stirring the melting pot called America, Thanks to Rush and his round-table of Rednecks who do his bidding the pot is boiling over.
Not too many Black and Brown folks across this divided nation, perhaps not even a midget’s handful will end-up shedding a single tear for a Cancer-stricken…
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Commentary
Dem 2020 Challenges Post-Iowa
Columnist
the biggest bust is former Vice President Joe Biden. As noted weeks ago, he has lost a step, and his refusal to monitor or sanction his son Hunter’s behavior has undermined his campaign. To repeatedly insist that Hunter did nothing wrong in taking a seat on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine oil company, while Joe Biden was in office and investigating corruption in that country, does not pass the smell or ethical test.
As Malcolm X so presciently stated shortly after the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the “… the chickens have come home to…
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Commentary
Black History Month – African Centered Education and Dr. Carter G. Woodson – Worrill’s World
Columnist
The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the on–going struggle for the liberation of African people in this country. We must continue to demand that the truth be taught as the new school year begins.
The countdown to the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) and the Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI) sponsored Black History Month Kick-Off lecture has…
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