Issue: 845
Dec 10, 2020
Color of Law
Too Little Has Changed About American Policing in the Last Few Decades
Executive Editor
The U.S. never came to terms with its legacy of institutional and systemic racism, of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, and now it has come back to bite us.
The choking death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin - and the subsequent protests and unrest across America amid a pandemic and economic…
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View from the Battlefield
Responding to COVID Fatigue
Editorial Board
Wishing, hoping and ignoring facts are not the solutions to taming the beast. It starts with using common sense, being determined to survive and taking care of our communities.
A recent report in Mississippi cited a tip in the COVID-19 scales favoring African Americans. This affirms what I know about my people: they are pragmatic.…
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Commentary
History Has Me Hesitant About Vaccine
Editorial Board
The troubling question is, will blacks and Latinx Americans show up?
Massachusetts hospitals are filling up again, like those across the country. Many of the patients are blacks and Latinx Americans, the demographic groups disproportionately slammed by…
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Guest Commentary
Will Joe Biden Forgive Billions in Student Debt?
Guest Commentator
The president-elect has said that he believes in student debt forgiveness. Why then is he refusing to rely on straightforward executive action to achieve his stated aims?
There is an easy option available to President-elect Joe Biden to ease the economic suffering of Americans on the first day he takes office, and that…
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Commentary
Where Have the Jobs Gone?
Editorial Board
the Senate is fiddling while America starves.
Have you ever seen a pig dance a jig? I don’t mean to be rude, but the one-minute press conference that the current President called to…
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Commentary
In the Legacy of Extremists
Editorial Board
the neglect of our civic duty to resist permits the rule of the tyrannical.
In 1896, General Robert Baden-Powell marched his troops straight into Kumasi, writes historian Sven Lindqvist. Unsuccessful in two previous attempts to subdue the Ashanti, the British…
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Commentary
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond Should Be Biden’s Choice For Education Secretary
Columnist
It is imperative that the Biden-Harris administration choose an Education Secretary who is up to redirecting the Department’s emphasis back toward K-12 public education.
If he is to remain true to his commitment to criminal justice reform that he made to the African American community and to George Floyd’s family…
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