Issue: 855
Mar 4, 2021
Guest Commentary
Why Black Lives Still Don’t Matter
Guest Commentator
For decades, “candy-coated” reform is all that most politicians have offered Black communities in America.
There is a scene in the new film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” directed by Shaka King and produced by Ryan Coogler, in which Chairman Fred…
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Commentary
Women’s History Month – Black Women’s Organizations Matter
Editorial Board
The coalition of Black women who have always made a difference must step up to support these women, too.
March is Women’s History Month, and this month is the perfect time to lift the Black women’s organizations that make such an essential difference in our…
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Color of Law
America Needs the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill, But Let’s Not Stop There
Executive Editor
there is power in Black representation, in having America get used to seeing us in high-profile spaces in the nation we built.
People have an honest difference of opinion about whether Harriet Tubman’s likeness should grace the front of the $20 bill. Whether you view the change as…
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View from the Battlefield
Wrapping Our Heads Around the Pandemic
Editorial Board
COVID-19 has dramatically shown us how interconnected our lives are in this country.
While the nation was burying its dead, while toilet paper got narrower in width, while storage companies tripled their rental fees, while Big Pharma scurried to…
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Commentary
Essential Workers, School Re-openings and Public Education
Columnist
The reopening schools controversy is another tactic to create chaos in the public education sector by presenting teachers in a negative light and distracting the larger public from other issues at hand.
Significant progress is being made in promoting the vaccinations of teachers after the pushback of local, state, and national teacher union leaders and rank-and-file teachers in…
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Commentary
Women’s History Month – Harriet Jacobs: Ours Is A Different Story
Editorial Board
reader wants an idea of the ruling class Southern American home during these years of enslavement, here is one, the one in which she lived as a teen under the authority of adults.
We could have told them a different story. We could have given them a chapter of wrongs and sufferings… -Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
The Republican Party Desperately Needs an Old Fashioned Exorcism
Columnist
The fact that seventy-four million people witnessed four years of overt racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, attacks on immigrants, corruption, and incompetence, but nevertheless voted for it to continue, indicates how deeply embedded the ideology of white supremacy is.
“What we got here is... a failure to communicate.” Today, Republicans speak in a form of genuine, authentic, frontier gibberish, to mask and camouflage their intolerable…
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