Issue: 834
Sept 24, 2020
Color of Law
Did Robert F. Smith Use Black America?
Executive Editor
While these questions may seem uncomfortable for some of us to ask, they challenge us to think about how the wealthy influence many aspects of our society and the true reasons for their charitable gifts.
Robert F. Smith, the businessman, philanthropist and the wealthiest Black man in America, gained a great deal of attention and accolades when he pledged to pay…
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Cover Story
Ginsburg Bent the Moral Arc toward Justice
Editorial Board
Ginsburg’s death comes as a crushing blow to those of us who believe in building a multicultural democracy and a participatory government, where protests are understood as a citizen’s First Amendment right to do so.
Like so many Americans across the country, I, too, am mourning the news that U.S. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died due to complications from…
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Commentary
RBG – Committed to Civil Liberties and Civil Rights – The Invisible Woman
Editorial Board
Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights, winning multiple arguments before the Supreme Court.
We lost a giant on the American legal landscape when the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Justice Ginsburg was one of only…
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Commentary
Black Lives Matter T-Shirts and Masks – Who Profits?
Editorial Board
You might be funding your oppression by purchasing the right message from the wrong seller.
I always smile when I see Black Lives Matter T-Shirts until I saw one gracing the grubby back of a white man who had on both…
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Commentary
Plunging Toward Totalitarianism – Solidarity America
Columnist
Truth will not be tolerated in Trump’s America, for if the rank-and-file citizens were well-educated and well-informed, they would not tolerate his lying and incompetence for one minute.
A group described as “neo-Confederate” paraded through Elon, North Carolina, on Saturday, amid shouts of “white power” and “f--- black lives,” as the nation lumbered to…
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Commentary
Barr-Trump vs. Democracy 2020
Columnist
Democrats are in a politically perilous position and must summon the courage and energy to fight the battle they are actually in rather than rely on the rosy scenario of a widening Biden lead in daily polls in most battleground states.
It is now apparent that President Donald J. Trump is Attorney General William Barr’s “useful idiot.” Heretofore, there was a consensus that the relationship was the…
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