Apr 22, 2021
Cover Story
Columnist
Police and ethnic minority community tensions are just a symptom of the difficulty that our nation is facing as it transitions from a majority White to a multi-racial, multi-cultural country.
The three guilty verdicts for former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, for his public, nine-minute and twenty-nine-second murder of Mr. George Perry Floyd are in,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
In the streets Fists rising Signs waiving -0- Who champion humanity One tiny step closer To human rights for everyone
One Conviction In the streets Fists rising Signs waiving Shouts Chants Posts Editorials Face to face With blue brotherhood danger In the service of White supremacy…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
His assassination altered the lives and psychology of Black people and arguably continues to impact the community today.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, while helping striking sanitation workers - left a…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the public dollars wasted on these schools and the personal angst they caused to teachers, students, and parents should have been avoided with a more rigorous authorization process for the disbursement of CSP funds.
Education’s Charter School Program (CSP) wasted more than a billion dollars on charter schools that never opened or opened for a very brief period before closing,…
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Commentary
Columnist
The critiques have come from the right and the left, but few bear any indications that they have ever been involved in a union organizing drive or involved in a union in any way.
With the union drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama, over for the time being, there are other places that have been working to organize, including Amazon…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentators
In the coming years, Ecuador’s Citizens Revolution will have to use this time to regroup, repair frayed relations with indigenous and union groups, and build a strong social base of support.
Ecuador’s April 11 election that led to a 5-point victory by conservative banker Guillermo Lasso over progressive candidate Andrés Arauz was not what it appeared to…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
White America is facing a long-anticipated nightmare – racial minority status, in a country where White folks have made "skin color" a defining and determining factor in one's quality of life.
The “verdict of this infantile century” is about to be revealed; a killer cop, Derrick Chauvin has been convicted for the cold-blooded murder of Mr. George…
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