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Issue: 917

June 30, 2022

Color of Law

It’s Time To Tear Down the Supreme Court Because It Is a Threat to Black Life

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Now is the time to shut the whole thing down now and start from scratch before more people die.

The recent decisions coming from this court are all the proof you need that we are in danger. Consider the overturning of Roe v. Wade and…

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Commentary

What Did We Expect?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Too many Democrats have been too silent for far too long.

As soon as the Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that allowed states, not the federal government to…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Brown v Board of Education, Plessy v Ferguson – On the Chopping Block! And of Course, Black America Is Shocked!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

soon they’ll want to rehang the “NO Negroes/No Mexicans/No Jews & No Dogs” signs over restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, malls, the whole gamut - and here sits my generation of assimilating and accommodating pawns befuddled, bewildered and dazed.

I have spent the last few decades trying to convince my friends and relatives, who are vastly Black folk, that “Mainstream USA,” i.e., “Mainstream” White America,…

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Guest Commentary

Roe v Wade and Right Wing Agenda

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

The truth is the conservative right has shrewdly and strategically (albeit in a perverse and sinister manner) played the long game.

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) established a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Thomas argued that: “[W]e have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.…

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Guest Commentary

This Is War — Let’s Turn the Tide for Legal Abortion

By Adrienne Weller Guest Commentator

With anger forged into united, multi-racial working-class action, we can turn the court or overturn the government.

Fighting for abortion has been a generations-long battle. It was legalized in Washington state in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade. A key role was…

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Guest Commentary

Gun Violence: What’s Really Behind “Right To Keep and Bear?”

By Tom Hall Guest Commentator

The reality is that our current stance on the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with the views of the Founding Fathers and everything to do with the desire to keep the middle and lower classes fighting and killing each other, while leaving a small wealthy elite in control.

If the people who suffer from gun violence were the same as the people who profit from gun violence, gun control measures would be strong and…

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