Sept 29, 2022
Color of Law
Executive Editor
With its low regard for living people, Alabama will continue its executions, one way or another.
Bad habits are hard to break, and this most certainly applies to Alabama and the death penalty. Alabama wants to execute prisoners with a new, untested…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
How long will it take for you to get colonialism out of you?
I had the privilege of attending and addressing the All African Diaspora Summit at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. Convened by Dr. Edward Bush,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
what wisdom about life was buried with them as they went they way of the dinosaur.
While the hustle-bustle of capitalism was going on, deep in the Brazilian rain forest, a lone man quietly readied himself for death recently. He climbed into…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Climate change plus government inaction on mitigation and resilience equals deadly consequences for the poor.
As Pakistan drowns, as Puerto Rico is cast into darkness, and as Jacksonians remain thirsty, it’s past time for a climate tax on fossil fuel companies.…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
A Black woman having a baby is like a Black man being stopped by the police.”
The United States is the most dangerous country in the industrialized world to have a child or be pregnant. And, conditions are much worse in Black…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
South Sudan is the embodiment of so many ills that affect the world – colonialism, militarization, civil war, climate change, famine, and sexual violence.
By every conceivable measure, South Sudan is a nation in acute crisis. According to the World Bank, eighty percent of the South Sudanese population lives below…
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