Issue: 901
March 3, 2022
Color of Law
What’s Really Lost When Schools Make Black History Month Lessons Optional
Executive Editor
how can kids expect to figure out the world and solve its problems when they are clueless about what is happening now and have no knowledge of the past?
Now that Black History Month has ended we should remember that the war on Black history has reached new heights in America. At the start of…
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Commentary
African Americans and the Fed: From Andrew Brimmer to Lisa Cook
Editorial Board
You don’t need to study racism to see the glaring inequality that the data illustrate.
The Federal Reserve Bank, founded in 1913, has had more than one hundred members of its Board of Governors. Forty-four white men governed the nation’s monetary…
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Guest Commentary
RAND Corporation Urged Creation of the Horrors You’re Seeing in Ukraine
Guest Commentator
That Russians now protesting their government over its latest atrocity are doing what RAND hoped for does not mean they are doing the wrong thing. It just means to watch out for the manipulation of the outcome.
In 2019, the RAND Corporation tentacle of the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional “Intelligence” Media Academic “Think” Tank Complex published a report claiming to have “conducted a…
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Guest Commentary
You Can’t Sugarcoat Hershey’s Union-Busting Tactics
Guest Commentator
Hershey factory workers in Virginia are sick of company abuses and are voting to join a union. But their union-busting employer has other plans.
There is a bittersweet battle taking place in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. Workers at the Hershey Company’s second-largest factory, located in the small town of about 12,000,…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
The Problems of 45 Million Little People
Columnist
Black America should place our internal and historical conflicts within this imperfect empire on the back burner and focus on voter turnout in the upcoming election season.
“The problems of 3 little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…” Hollywood’s 1942 classic, Casablanca is my indisputable favorite movie,…
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