Issue: 806
Feb 20, 2020
Color of Law
Democrats, Think Twice Before You Bet On a Billionaire of Your Own
Executive Editor
the Democrats threaten to undermine their own anti-corruption stance if they, like the GOP, would have an oligarch control their party. Bloomberg's money does not make his problems go away.
(CNN) Some Democrats believe former New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg is the party's moderate savior: a New York businessman well-positioned to take on…
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Cover Story
Mike’s Debate and Stacey 2020?
Columnist
Abrams is a great campaigner, has immense appeal across racial, ethnic, and class lines, and is acutely knowledgeable of the issues that Bloomberg faces. If he is able to convince her to join him, should he win the nomination, which currently appears to be an uphill climb. But first Bloomberg needs to be taken to the political woodshed and given an intense grilling about his mistakes in his first debate.
I can still hear the licks—pow, slap, smack, etc.--that Mike Bloomberg took from Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden last Wednesday…
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Commentary
If Joe Kennedy Wants to Win Against Ed Markey, He Must Be More Than a Younger Version
Editorial Board
Demographic diversity, along with a younger and more progressive generation of Democratic politicians, is essential for the life of the party. And in a race between similarly positioned candidates, race, gender and geographic diversity matter. Yes, so, too, age! But Kennedy must have more than that.
For Bay Staters hoping for the return of a Kennedy to the Senate like his grand uncle Ted or to the presidency like his grand uncle…
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Guest Commentary
Abolish Superdelegates Before It’s Too Late
Guest Commentator
There are two kinds of delegates at Democratic Party Conventions today: real delegates (duly elected in primaries or caucuses from the states) and fake delegates, delegates artificially created by the Democratic National Committee. These delegates, who lack direct support from primary voters, are called superdelegates.
There is much talk among Democratic Party insiders about restoring the role of superdelegates on the first ballot at the Democratic Party convention. Many young activists…
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Commentary
Black History Month – Florence Price
Editorial Board
At the premiere of Price’s Symphony No. 1, George Gershwin is in the audience, and that premiere takes place at the World’s Fair, in 1933. This symphony by an African American woman is “without precedent” at the time.
won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what…
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Commentary
Trump Sends Out His Shock Troops – Solidarity America
Columnist
Most of Trump's most egregious acts have been the result of his racial and ethnic bias, despite what he continually claims, that he is the least racist person in the world. His acts and words have proven the opposite. His deportation force and executive orders have shown that the Border Patrol raids on homes in sanctuary cities is just the beginning.
You'd think that they were American and allied troops breaking into Fallujah, the city in Iraq that was destroyed in two major assaults, but you'd be…
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Commentary
They Still Owe Us! – Worrill’s World
Columnist
Part of our internal repair is to consciously understand that “We Are Owed” and that we have a historic responsibility to demand reparations from those forces of white supremacy that continue to benefit from what they did to us and that lingers on as part of the vestiges of our enslavement.
Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations and what it means to our continued struggle in America for self-determination,…
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