Issue: 820
May 28, 2020
Cover Story
What About the Children?
Editorial Board
People can't go back to work unless they have a safe place to keep their children. Our recession reminds us of the need for universal child care and fair treatment for domestic workers. People love to say they believe that children are the future, but even as they move their lips, no sound is coming out, there is no action.
Do you see the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel? With all 50 states and the District of Columbia) either lifting "shelter in place"…
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Commentary
The Challenge of Reopening Churches
Editorial Board
If you want confusion in this delicate balance between church and state, and First Amendment rights and the right to protect public health, simply add Trump to the mix. Trump made it emphatically clear that if governors did not follow his recommendations allowing in-person religious services to resume, he would "override" them.
All places of worship are now allowed to conduct religious services. However, how safe is it to reopen them versus the legal permission to do so…
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Commentary
Orwell’s Animal Farm: Of Rebellion and Forgetfulness
Editorial Board
Who are these humans who desire to live in a democratic society, but who allow for the co-opting of ideas about democracy, the work and the creatively to bring it into existence, by the tyrants among them who seize on an opportunity to eliminate civil liberties, even the memory of civil liberties, until nothing resembling life remains on the landscape.
This is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! Moses, Animal Farm The book has been chosen as a feature of the Book of the Month Club.…
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Commentary
Biden’s White Privilege Gaffe
Columnist
Rev. Al Sharpton, Tiffany Cross, TV political pundits, and other younger African American activists were critical of Biden’s statement. They all called more forcefully for him to add a black female to his presidential ticket in the aftermath of this political debacle. It is now much more likely that he will do so as he tries to hold on to black support.
Suburbs are being increasingly populated by people of color who heighten Democrats’ chances of defeating Trump and electing down ballot candidates. Joe Biden, former Vice President…
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Commentary
African Liberation Day Celebration: Part II – Worrill’s World
Columnist
It is interesting to note that the Civil Rights Movement in this country was sparked in Montgomery (1955) at approximately the same time the independence movement in Africa began (1956-57). The call for Black Power (1966) sparked a discussion in the Black Liberation Movement in America that placed the re-identification with Africa and African people on the Movement’s agenda, once again. This renewed a new phase of the Pan African Movement.
This is the second of a two part series discussing the origin and development of African Liberation Day. The month of May is very important in…
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