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Issue: 895

January 20, 2022

Color of Law

MLK Disobeyed Unjust Laws. The State of America Today Requires That We Not Forget That

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

King was unwavering in advocating for civil disobedience to break systems of oppression - disobeying unjust laws in the open, and with love.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is a symbol of peace, justice and nonviolence, but he is often misquoted, misunderstood and invoked for nefarious purposes that have nothing…

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Filibuster

Cartoon

Filibuster

By Chuck Siler

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Guest Commentary

All Hail the Revolutionary MLK

By Eric Mann Guest Commentator

once again we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and fight to protect his revolutionary legacy from Democratic Party white washers, including their cover-up of their treachery against him when he was alive.

On January 11, 2022 President Joe Biden made an impassioned speech in support of the Voting Rights Act and against the right-wing fascist take-over. It was…

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Guest Commentary

How Scholars Are Countering Well-Funded Attacks on Critical Race Theory

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Right-wing narratives have cast the backlash against CRT as a grassroots effort led by parents concerned about bias in their children’s education. But secretive and powerful moneyed interests are at work behind the scenes.

Invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in mid-December, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced new legislation that allows parents to sue schools for teaching critical race theory.…

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Commentary

Warrior Lawyers Like Lani Guinier

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

In the middle of the struggle, a beacon, a woman who loved voting rights and fair representation more than life itself, was taken from us.

The amazing attorney, law professor, lawyer, author, and activist made her transition on January 7, 2022, even as Black folks and our allies were engaged in…

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Guest Commentary

In Honduras, Victory of Leftist Woman President Rests on Other Women’s Struggles

By Suyapa Portillo Villeda, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Guest Commentator

In the 1954 election, visibly rigged by the Nationalist Party apparatus, activists had to circumvent the military, intimidation, and corruption to vote.

Women have been at the forefront of struggle in Honduras throughout its history, from fighting dictatorships to challenging political corruption to seeking civil improvements such as…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The “Good” White People Are Going To Fail Black America, Pathetically So…

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Kyrstan Sinema, supposedly from out west… will, along with allegedly another good white person, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, from kinda up North - will knowingly facilitate the fall of democracy by allowing the hard-earned “right” of voting to be strong armed away, stollen from millions.

The “good” white people, alas the NPR “Liberals” and the MSNBC “Progressives” are going to fail Black America, pathetically so. American Democracy is going past tense.…

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Truth

Art

Truth

By Margaret Warfield

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