Issue: 813
Apr 09, 2020
Cover Story
Trump’s Covid-19 Show and Dems
Columnist
Although moderate and liberal media pundits routinely assert that Trump has performed poorly in his handling of the coronavirus, the overwhelming majority of Republican voters, and a sliver of independents, moderates, and working-class Democrats do not share that view. They are still with Trump as they support his xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and anti-minority stances.
No testing stations for the coronavirus are located in communities of color, and there are no programs proposed or in development to reduce minority risks for…
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Commentary
Pandemic Good Cover for Trump to Move Against Workers, Venezuela, The Environment – Solidarity America
Columnist
it would be a shock if he were to say from that daily podium that black Americans are suffering from COVID-19 more than any others across the nation. His xenophobia and racism will not allow him to say the words, because his and his fellow Republicans' policies have helped, over generations, to provide the fertile ground for the virus to take hold in black and marginalized communities.
As horrendous as COVID-19 is as a pandemic, it is providing distraction enough that some are using it as a distraction for other actions that could…
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View from the Battlefield
There’s More Going On Than Covid-19
Editorial Board
How we learn from this ugly time will depend on our collective scrutiny on where the cracks in the system lie, and not just the health care system. It is a fight for democracy because the whole damn system is guilty as hell.
The U.S. is months into the worst pandemic the world has seen since the 1918 Spanish Flu. And still there is still no national comprehensive, coordinated…
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Commentary
Education and Marcus Garvey – Worrill’s World
Columnist
One must never stop reading. Read everything that you can read, that is of standard knowledge. Don’t waste time reading trashy literature. The idea is that personal experience is not enough for a human to get all the useful knowledge of life, because the individual life it too short, so we must feed on the experience of others.
It is quite clear that African people in America continue to be miseducated. This problem is discussed in a variety of ways in conversations everyday in…
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