Issue: 851
Feb 4, 2021
Commentary
A Poem about Harriet Tubman
I read in the papers about the Freedom Train I heard on the radio about the Freedom Train I seen folks talking about the Freedom Train Lord, I've been a-waitin for the Freedom Train!
Note: Langston Hughes wrote this poem about the Underground Railroad which Harriet Tubman conducted. I read in the papers about the Freedom Train I heard on…
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Commentary
Back to Normal? What’s Normal?
Editorial Board
This virus is an opportunity for us to scrutinize what we consider normal and how we need to change it.
I got my first COVID vaccination last week. No big deal, an achy arm, but otherwise, just like a flu shot. The young lady who administered…
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Commentary
Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best – Solidarity America
Columnist
it takes participation in the sometimes dull routine of the democratic process and some, like the rioters in the U.S. Capitol, want to be gratified instantly, instead of doing the hard work of democracy.
After the former president was banned from Twitter for attempting to incite insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, by claiming that his reelection was…
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Guest Commentary
The COVID-19 Pandemic Can’t Be Managed—It Has to Be Eradicated
Guest Commentator
were the United States to take an elimination approach to COVID-19, we would be done with this pandemic in a short period of time,
For millions of Americans who believe that COVID-19 is real, dangerous, and requires a plan of action, Joe Biden’s election to the presidency has finally offered…
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Commentary
Reopening Majority-Minority Schools in a Pandemic
Columnist
Without strong COVID-19 mitigation, the rapid return to school will be a dumpster fire.
The pressure is on public school districts and teacher unions to reopen our public schools as quickly as possible. From California to Michigan to Florida, there…
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Color of Law
Black South Carolinians Deserve Better than Senator Tim Scott
Executive Editor
Now is the time for Scott to do his job, hold this president accountable, and decide exactly which side he is on.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina opposes the impeachment of Donald Trump, reflecting a long history of the junior senator caping for a white supremacist -…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
What Do Trump’s Supporters Really Want?
Columnist
If we’re not going to have noble and high-minded 21st century Obama-era racial inclusion and diversity... then what do they want instead?
What do the rank n’ file, the leadership and figureheads of Trump’s treasonous movement want? From Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, Confederate…
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Commentary
Of Cotton and Empire Part II
Editorial Board
His 1852 records reveal how closely the system of productivity, while linking enslaved Blacks to the land and from there to the market, the slaveholder and those depended on this way of existing in the world among others, also produces a culture indifferent to its inherent cruelty.
A Slave Is A Dead Soul. -Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiography of a Slave Jefferson’s embrace of empire evolved around the liberties of white men rather than…
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Guest Commentary
From Skin to Blood, to Flesh then Bones – A Poem
Guest Commentator
O, for thy blessed skin, draping thy torso Radiating key images to beholder’s sight ‘n mind Acuities thus forged, save for the blind Launching love at first sight
O, for thy blessed skin, draping thy torso Radiating key images to beholder’s sight ‘n mind Acuities thus forged, save for the blind Launching love at…
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