Feb 11, 2021
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black joy has come through our protest, our decision to envision a better life for ourselves and our children, and an insistence on accepting life on our own terms.
How can any parent - how can any black parent - bring a child into this world, this America? It is a question that many people…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
There is a direct line between the mind-blowing largesse that elites enjoy and the dystopian economic wreckage that the rest of us find ourselves in.
As Democrats and Republicans jostle over the particulars of a new economic stimulus package to address the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not too…
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Commentary
Columnist
They assume that the proper protocols of building ventilation, small class sizes, social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, and access to disinfectants are widely available in all school settings.
Reopening of schools for the nation’s poor students of color remains a crisis in our nation’s urban areas. The overall claim from the Center for Disease…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Those Americans who don’t talk politics attempt to silence dissent.
They go around like ghosts, this must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so,…
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Commentary
Columnist
The possibilities of providing beneficial services to low-wage workers and the poor are limitless for the USPS if it were free of the artificial restraints that have been placed on it by politicians in thrall to the moneyed class.
The U.S. Postal Service is one of the most popular and respected agencies of government going back to the beginning of the country and it provides…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
We watched in horror as the mask of moral, heroic, patriotic defenders of public safety and guardians of civilization slipped to reveal the monsters underneath.
As a certified professional, author, teacher, sufferer of addiction, and veteran of the criminal justice system, you might say I’ve had a front row seat and…
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Commentary
wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.
Frederick Douglass delivered the following speech on the subject: "The Equality of all men before the law" at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society…
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