Sept 15, 2022
Color of Law
Executive Editor
slavery persists to this day under a different name.
Yes, you read that right. In the “land of the free,” the states of Alabama, Louisiana,Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont have an opportunity to vote to abolish…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Attempts to teach her lessons on how to stay in her place as a Black woman have failed.
Black people have historically equated prosecutors with locking people up,and rightfully so. Prosecutors, district attorneys and circuit attorneys have almost single-handedly contributed to the swell of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Where did the cult of positive thinking originate? “American corporate culture is saturated with this positive thinking ideology,” especially in the 1990s and 2000s,
We can thank the late economic justice warrior for her groundbreaking contribution in showing that “positive thinking” is part of a whitewashing of economic inequality. Although…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The author of the Declaration of Independence wanted complete independence and absolute power to decide for himself what was in the public interest,
The issues raised by Trump’s retention of presidential documents (“It’s not theirs, it’s mine”) – state secrets, executive privilege, and national security – are not new…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched…
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
In the past 100 years, we’ve quadrupled the human population and increased the per capita consumption nine-fold for a 36-fold increase in the size of the economy. That can’t be sustained.
The planet is running out of resources, and humanity is living beyond its means. At the end of July, the International Monetary Fund warned of a…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
When I see people of color all wrapped up in this nonsensical fairy tale, it speaks to our mis-education, our unawareness of global history, or just perhaps our self-hatred.
The irreconcilable differences between WASP/White Anglo-Saxon America and“Americans of Color” were never more evident and prominent as they were with the passing of Great Britain’s Queen…
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