Oct 22, 2020
Color of Law
Executive Editor
The pandemic has laid bare the systemic flaws of American capitalism: perverse and systemic inequality, and an economic system lacking resilience or a robust social safety net.
Over the past several weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out tens of millions of U.S. jobs, creating unemployment numbers not seen since the Great Depression.…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
We have to vote like our lives depend on it because they do. But we can’t just vote; we can encourage others to do the same thing.
For the sixth year in a row, Essence Magazine and the Black Women’s Roundtable have surveyed Black women about the issues that concern them most. Melanie…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
But if these resolutions are to have teeth, the leaders who voted to endorse these actions need a plan to talk with members, name the risk, and prepare workers. Organized workers will be essential to upholding a fair election and peaceful transfer of power.
“Therefore, be it finally resolved that the Rochester Labor Council, AFL-CIO calls on the National AFL-CIO, all of its affiliate unions, and all other labor organizations…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Donald Trump arrived, and he ruined everything that both countries had advanced in normalizing their relations.
Even when I didn’t understand what it was to be Cuban, it was clear to me that we struggled because of the blockade. Since I was…
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Commentary
Columnist
American workers have been indoctrinated into the myth of individual achievement and that everyone must achieve success (however that is defined) on his or her own and individualism is the key to most things American.
So there are rumblings of a general strike by America’s unions if Donald Trump does not vacate the White House if he loses, in other words,…
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Commentary
Columnist
Like a magician in a magic show, Trump’s antics are orchestrated to keep our eyes off the devious political activities that he and Barr are carrying out in plain sight.
Our ‘Crazy Uncle’ Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, is sane. His questionable and strange behavior of late is a distraction designed to…
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The African World
Editorial Board
Those charged in the apparent coup attempt and kidnapping in Michigan were not wild-eyed crazies who like to play with guns. They are part of a right-wing populist movement that has received active and steady encouragement from the Trump administration to taunt those who believe in democracy.
Mainly described as an attempted kidnapping of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the alleged actions of the apparent white terrorists are better described as a coup attempt.…
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