Mar 18, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Anti-Black sentiment discredits anything produced by Black people that represents a fundamental cry from the belly of this country’s practice of white supremacist violence.
Like most forms of popular music, African-American blues lyrics talk about love. Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
a guaranteed income can actually help struggling Americans get jobs.
An ongoing study conducted in Stockton, California, examines how the lives of low-income Americans can improve if they are simply given money - a modest, but…
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Commentary
Columnist
The concentration of wealth and income in the U.S. has reached a crisis stage and the concentrated control of the food system is just one of the elements of the crisis, but it may be the most important of the crises.
In the mid-1980s, there was a farm crisis (when isn’t there?) and a milk strike among family farmers in the Northeast, but a close look at…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
These Republicans are exploiting the racist, predatory capitalist origins of this nation.
The Souls to the Polls movement encourages African American church attendees to get out and vote. The churches that promote this movement cannot, because of their…
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Commentary
Columnist
To date, there is very little outcry from Democratic activists, most of whom are only now becoming aware that this bait and switch occurred. As knowledge of this double-cross spreads across the progressive Democratic base, it may spell trouble for get-out-the-vote (GOTV) plans for the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential election.
There are two current debates whose outcomes will impact the lives of poor people of color: reopening schools and the filing and passage of hundreds of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Right-to-work laws proliferated across the Midwest in the mid-2000s. But their roots are in the Jim Crow South, in the milieu of anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism wielded by rich white Southerners and their Northern allies to maintain an economic system built on racial division and cheap labor.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, with 42 House Democrats from Southern states as cosponsors. The bill…
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