Issue: 818
May 14, 2020
Cover Story
Remembering Malcolm X – Worrill’s World
Columnist
Malcolm helped shape Black peoples pride in themselves and by so doing, he exposed, by teaching that the greatest crime of white people was they taught us to hate ourselves. It was Malcolm’s spirit that generated the Black Pride, Black Studies, and Black Power phases of our movement.
Since the untimely transition of Malcolm X in 1965, movement forces throughout the world have consistently commemorated his birthday. Malcolm X was born on May 19,…
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Commentary
What Do You Have to Lose? Your Health or Your Job?
Editorial Board
You don't have to believe in conspiracies to recognize the disproportional impact the shortages of hydroxychloroquine have had on Black women.
A little less than four years ago, the president tried to get Black votes with the question, "What do you have to lose?" The coronavirus offers…
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Commentary
The Face of Violence Against Humanity Isn’t Just Corporate CEOs on Wall Street
Editorial Board
the gun carriers want the economy flowing again over the dead and dying bodies of people of color.
I’m required to remain calm. Here, where I live in the Midwest, it wouldn’t necessarily be the case if I were white. But staying “calm” when…
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Commentary
Equality Among Nations Vital for Health of Earth – Solidarity America
Columnist
the rich nations need to start thinking of the needs of the poorer nations, if not for the people of those nations, but for the general health of humanity and the planet, including themselves.
It’s fairly settled by now that a pandemic-like coronavirus, Covid-19, can get around the world without much difficulty, what with air travel and globalization of economies…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Are Meanness and Cruelty a Characteristic of White Culture?
Columnist
Perhaps it arises from some form of righteous, well-earned paranoia?
Are meanness, unkindness and cruelty essential characteristics if not trademarks of White American culture? Is stone-age coldness and medieval evil-doing as All-American as Coke, hotdogs and…
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Commentary
What Biden and Dems Must Do!
Columnist
Trump has unified and galvanized Republicans using xenophobic hysteria and their fear of being defeated in their bids for election and/or reelection.
The black masses to which Trump posed the question in 2016, “What do you have to lose?” now have the answer - their jobs, their lives,…
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