Issue: 822
June 11, 2020
Guest Commentary
George Floyd Means Justice
Guest Commentator
George Floyd Say his name! George Floyd! George Floyd means Justice! George Floyd means End oppression George Floyd means No more murders Of Black men and women
This was a moment In a 500 year legacy Where people stopped time For justice and democracy Declaring Black Lives Matter The cop took a knee…
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Commentary
Boston Pride’s 50th Anniversary During a Crisis
Editorial Board
LGBTQ+ civil rights and Black civil rights histories intersect on many issues, violence, and police brutality are among them.
June is Pride Month for LGBTQ+ communities across the country - and Boston’s turns 50. Despite COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines, a half-century of struggle and…
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Commentary
Defund the Police!
Editorial Board
calling on Americans to call forth their “better angels” may have been a marketing strategy for someone like Oprah to hold on to her white women, middle and upper middle class audience, it’s not intended, however, for someone like Breonna Taylor, who, as an EMT, put her own health on the line for the great good. But you won’t hear the media referring to her as an “angel.”
In a healthy society that has problems people will ask what did we do to cause this. In an unhealthy society that has problems, they say,…
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Commentary
All Things Matter, Except for Trump, for Whom Only Profit Matters – Solidarity America
Columnist
This time of chaos, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the demonstrations against police abuse of power, is a time of opportunity, a time when real change can be made. That’s why the fight for racial equality and justice for all must be combined with the environmental movement and all other movements for equal justice and against oppression in all its forms.
It’s bad enough that the flames of racism have been fanned by Donald Trump for most of his life, but he seems to side with the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
It’s Not About “What” the Democratic Nominee Is Going To Do “For” Black America, It’s About What Trump Will “Do” to Black Folks If Given Another Term
Columnist
For Black America, confronted with Trump - a modern day Andrew Jackson, a chunky George Wallace - a sinister clown backed by both the Klan and you’re local police - this isn’t the election to be idealistic, visionary, Utopian nor castle-building - we simply need to get this racist, elitist and sexist con-man out of the Oval Office.
As a Black American, If you have a problem figuring-out whether come November 3 , 2020 you’re voting "for" former Vice President Joe Biden for President,…
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Commentary
Biden Beats Trump If He …
Columnist
Biden needs to lean into the national African American community, particularly its millennials, who have been reluctant to come out in large numbers during a presidential election since the Obama campaigns.
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is functioning as a combination of Donald Trump’s legal and propaganda advisor as did Hans Frank and Joseph Goebbels for Adolph…
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