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Issue: 876

July 29, 2021

View from the Battlefield

A Quiet but Controversial Olympics

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We can't overlook the racial bias and decisions made by Olympic officials this time or any other time. Like the banning of track legend Sha'Carri Richardson from the Olympic competition when she tested positive for marijuana. Many saw it as a double standard. And those specially-designed swim caps for nappy heads? They were banned too.

The delayed Olympics are a hot mess and it’s not just the blazing temperatures in Tokyo. We can blame it on COVID-19 and politics. Only world…

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Guest Commentary

Anti-Asian Racism and the 2020 Olympic Games

By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports Guest Commentator

The dehumanization of the Japanese people is a prerequisite for forcing these Pandemic Games on an unwilling population. Racism provides a pretext for going ahead with the Games in the face of all logic.

As far as “gaffes” go on a global scale, one cannot do much worse than calling the Japanese people “Chinese.” It is an error of racism…

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Covid Climate

Cartoon

Covid Climate

By Mark Hurwitt

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Color of Law

It’s Time To Expel the Ku Klux Karens From the United States Congress

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

the GOP has become an armed insurgency in full view, mixed with a white domestic terror cult that worships guns and white Jesus, money, lunacy, and above all, Donald Trump.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) recently revealed she is moving her office for the safety of her staff after she was harassed by QAnon conspiracy theorist and…

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Commentary

Black Women and the Pay Gap – We Do What We Have To Do

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

I think of my Mama, a Mississippi-raised middle-class hat and glove-wearing diva working in the post office so that my siblings and I could eat, and I think of the many ways that Black Women’s Pay Equity Day is so meaningful.

It takes Black women until August 3, or 19 months, to earn what a white man earns in a year. Most years, Pay Equity Day happens…

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Nina Simone

Art

Nina Simone

By London Ladd

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Commentary

Who Will Save Our Children?

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

we have to be vigilant in ensuring that our new public school student populations have the broad-based economic support that is needed for them to succeed and excel. They are under siege with regard to their need for educational resources even as their numbers continue to surge.

As the nation prepares to reopen its schools for the 2021-2022 year, very few groups and/or individuals have focused specifically on the overall well-being of our…

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Commentary

Judge Loretta Preska Read the Newspaper During Proceedings of Lawyer Donziger’s Sham U.S. Trial – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

There is little doubt among the supporters of Steven Donziger that the aim of the entire sham of legal proceedings against him has been to ignore the crimes committed on a massive scale by the likes of Texaco and Chevron against fragile human societies and local ecosystems.

There’s a classic one-panel cartoon that sums up the case against environmental attorney Steven Donziger, who represents about 30,000 people in the Ecuadorean rainforest that was…

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