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September 30, 2021

Guest Commentary

Retrograde History – The Haitian Migrant/Texas Border Patrol Saga

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

would a group of Canadian migrants from Quebec, Saskatchewan, or British Columbia or other immigrants attempting to cross the U.S. border have been attacked and disregarded with such inhumane disdain?

On September 23rd, Democratic Party members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference discussing their outrage at the events that transpired at the U.S.…

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Color of Law

Republicans Will Jim Crow Their Way Back to Power If Democrats Allow Them

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

There is only one thing standing in the way of a President Joe Biden agenda and Democratic Party success - and that would be scared Democrats lacking a backbone and not wanting to make Republicans angry.

The Democrats have everything they need right now to flex their muscles and wield the power the people gave them - the White House, the U.S.…

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Guest Commentary

Working for a Real Mad Man

By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus Guest Commentator

After Trump lost the 2020 election, even those in his close circle of advisors began to question the president’s sanity. There was a distinct possibility that a real mad man now held the reins of power and that he was willing to do pretty much anything to stay in the Oval Office, up to and including a coup.

When he was trying to win the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon famously told his chief of staff that he wanted Communist leaders - in the Soviet…

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Commentary

“Right-to-Work” Philosophy Rooted in Very Deep Racism – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

The intention of right-to-work (RTW) advocates was to stop unionization in its tracks and, therefore, to stop workers from joining together to represent their own interests and the interests of their families and communities.

“Right-to-work” sounds like a philosophy that might be beneficial to the working class; it is anything but and most workers do not know that its creator…

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Commentary

Democrats Ignore School Choice, Citizens of Color at Their Peril

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

with their slim majorities in the House and Senate, and faced with internal and external distractions in their effort to pass legislation, Democrats seem to be unaware as to how they are being ‘played.’

Democratic centrists and progressives remain in a tizzy over how they should approach the passage of President Biden’s infrastructure and reconciliation bills. The centrists want the…

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Guest Commentary

Ocasio-Cortez and Her “Tax the Rich” Dress Sparks Talk

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

she was aiming her message of higher taxation of the wealthy directly at the faces of those elites, with the press as witness.

New York’s Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent Met Gala dress caused a stir for sporting the bold message “Tax the Rich.” The progressive lawmaker, who is…

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Commentary

Melvin Van Peebles, Creative Genius

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

We lost a giant when we lost Van Peebles on September 21, a giant and a multitalented man who acted, directed, wrote, starred, produced, composed, and played music and more.

One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’s Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A. Robert Phillips, who led the…

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N.O. Elevator

Cartoon

N.O. Elevator

By Chuck Siler

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