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Issue: 891

December 9, 2021

Color of Law

U.S. Travel Restrictions in Africa Reflects History of Colonialism

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Even as South Africa leads the world in the scientific war against COVID and developing vaccines to battle the virus, it is a reflexive response for America and other White-dominated countries to ban African nations in the face of disease.

In response to the discovery of the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus by South African scientists, the U.S. has restricted travel from eight southern African…

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Commentary

Recent Trials Reflect White Fragility

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

White fragility is shown in the discomfort and defensiveness when whites are asked to address front and center racial injustice—whether in the Deep South or the urban North.

When a predominately white jury found the McMichaels and Bryan guilty of felony murder among other charges in the Ahmaud Arbery case, many assumed justice was…

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View from the Battlefield

Beyond Roe v. Wade

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The fact that the last two assaults on woman’s constitutional right to choose has come from Southern states dredges up an ugly past for Black woman who were subjected to rape, unwanted pregnancies and forced sterilizations.

For Black women, and specifically descendants of enslaved people, abortion has never been just about court cases and protests. It has been about the lack of…

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Commentary

Who Is Responsible for the Bloated and Sick Pentagon Budget? – Solidarity America

By John Funiciello Columnist

Everything has been done to weave the military and “defense” into our daily lives, to such a degree that for the most part, we cannot imagine life without it.

One has to wonder, looking at the “defense” budget for next year. The House of Representatives has passed a military budget of $778 billion for the…

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Commentary

Democrats’ Dystopian Future?

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

When the power shift occurs, the Republicans will immediately rush to implement voting, electoral, and justice Apartheid that will parallel that of South Africa prior to 1992 and assign minorities to even more segregated spaces than they are in today.

All political signs are pointing toward a dystopian, totalitarian political future for the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, it looks like a slow-moving political suicide - where it…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

2022 the Year of the Ballot or the Bullet

By Desi Cortez Columnist

We’re living atop an absolute ball of confusion, in a totally fragmented land of open hostility and division.

I’d like to ask - what could be more motivation for Black, Latino, Asian, Native Americans, Women, mixed-race, liberal-minded Democracy appreciating people to vote than the…

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Fish in a Barrel

Cartoon

Fish in a Barrel

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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