September 9, 2021
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Twenty years later, we still don’t know the whole truth about that fateful day, but we have learned a lot about the U.S. government.
The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack is nearing. There will be memorials. There will be readings of the names of the nearly 3000 victims killed…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The parallels between America’s entanglements in Vietnam and Afghanistan are clear, especially as far as Black people are concerned.
President Joe Biden has withdrawn the last of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan, ending a senseless, 20-year war that should not have been waged, and the…
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Commentary
Columnist
Many of the most intractable problems of the nation would be mitigated, if not solved, if the people could be brought together to act on the problems of racism, poverty, hunger, disparity in wealth and wages, lopsided funding of education in poor neighborhoods, and lack of healthcare for all.
The war on workers in the U.S. has been going on for a long time, but the firing of 11,500 air traffic controllers by then-President Ronald…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
People who once hid their mixed race identity, or felt pressured to choose one identity or the other, now feel free to embrace the totality of their identity.
So you are sitting on a park bench, just enjoying the weather. What is the likelihood that the next person that walks by you is of…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Look, we need a rapturous rallying call, we need something that we can belt out with conviction, passion, and enthusiasm, all be on the same chapter n’ verse. Sing with confidence, not fear of forgetting the next word.
It’s time to replace Black America’s National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, with a song which was penned half a century ago in the midst…
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