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Issue: 873

July 8, 2021

Guest Commentary

Trump Charges Obscure Bigger Story: How the Rich Legally Avoid Taxes

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The far more scandalous punchline is that most elites need not resort to risky efforts such as tax fraud when such generous and perfectly legal giveaways are available.

After many months of anticipation and nearly three years of investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer…

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Race Theory

Cartoon

Race Theory

By Chuck Siler

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Commentary

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Becky Pringle, and Dignity

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

While their Democratic politicians and colleagues appear flummoxed as to how to respond in this era of escalating acts of oppression against its minority citizens, they have confronted it head-on.

Amid ongoing GOP assaults on the voting rights of Blacks and other people of color, three African Americans stood up for Black dignity. Nikole Hannah-Jones accepted…

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Guest Commentary

Why Do Teachers Get Paid Less To Do the World’s Most Important Work?

By Lilian Manansala Guest Commentator

We expect teachers to be saints,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, “that teaching is a labor of love, and somehow we justify that saints don’t need to get paid, saints don’t have mortgages.”

When Jared Smith moved from Orlando to Tampa five years ago, he found a one-bedroom apartment he couldn’t afford on his salary within a mile of…

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Guest Commentary

Black Women Become the Flavor of the Month

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

The U.S. Olympic trials is not the first time that Gwen Berry has courted controversy. Berry raised her fist in protest on the podium at the end of the national anthem during the Pan American Games in Peru in

It was to be expected (at least if you live in present-day America) that Gwen Berry would become the target of invective from millions of Americans…

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Color of Law

Time to Reexamine Frederick Douglass’ ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Back then, as now, America is faced with two narratives: The myth of American exceptionalism - that America is a great nation, the best place and can do no wrong - versus the reality that African people have been held in bondage in what we have been told is the cradle of liberty.

On this Fourth of July, a day of independence for some but not for Black people, there is no better time to reflect on Frederick Douglass’…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

In an Extremely Divided America Marijuana Is a Unifying Force

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black, White, Brown Red, and Yellow. The rich, the poor, Baptist and Atheist, urban, suburban, male-female, East Coast/West Coast, up North, down South, straight/gay, bottom, top… Seriously people from all walks of life are defending and justifying Weed.

Interestingly, Trump punk Matt Gaetz, the perverted and twisted Florida Congressman is rationalizing, marginalizing, and defending Sha Crea Richardson’s dancing with Mary Jane… It seems so…

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