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February 24, 2022

Cover Story

Black Hisory Month – Harriet Tubman – Conductor of the Underground Railroad

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shooting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

National Women's History Museum Known as the “Moses of her people,” Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of…

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Dumb Children

Cartoon

Dumb Children

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

Us Schools Fail To Teach About Slavery and America Pays the Price

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

the white supremacy and racism afflicting America today stem from the racial theories used to justify the enslavement of African and native peoples.

(CNN) Another February, and once again too many Americans view Black History Month as a footnote, impacting African-Americans but insignificant to the greater country. Slavery was…

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Guest Commentary

The U.S. Mainstream Media and War

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

What’s amazing about the “mainstream” in America is how narrow that stream is allowed to be.

When it comes to war, mainstream media voices in the U.S. are almost always for it, even when it could conceivably escalate to a nuclear exchange.…

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Fake News

Cartoon

Fake News

By Mark Hurwitt

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Guest Commentary

Is Spotify’s Business Model Killing Music?

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The company’s business model, to put it simply, is built on the severely underpaid labor of millions of creators.

Why? “What they’re doing always comes down to profits,” says Zack Nestel-Patt, an organizer with the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW). And Spotify sees…

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View from the Battlefield

An Anniversary Unworthy of Celebration

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We know that masks (any mask) and isolation are deterrents to viruses. Yet we still are acting like neophytes as people continue to die.

For most of the country, this is about the time COVID-19, two years ago, when cases start turning up. To date, we’re closing in on 950,000…

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