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Issue: 934

Dec 3, 2022

Cover Story

2022 Midterms: Black Democrats’ Political Missteps,’ Part II

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. Columnist

There is often an assumption by both Black and liberal White candidates in polarizing elections that Blacks will turn out in large numbers because they have little choice. That view is what doomed Hillary Clinton’s run against Donald Trump in 2016.

Read Part I African American Democratic candidates, who lost narrowly in major competitive, statewide 2022 midterm races, repeated the mistakes of their Black predecessors (e.g., Harvey…

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Commentary

Election Reflections – Ignore the Pollsters, Challenge the Democrats

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

It’s easy to do the Monday-morning quarterbacking about the midterm election. The process of making the Democratic Party more responsive to Black people is more challenging.

To let the pollsters tell it, Democrats were going to get a “drubbing” or a “shellacking” just like the one President Barack Obama experienced in 2010…

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Commentary

World AIDS Day 2022 Message Acknowledges Inequalities

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

African Americans are still disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. And the epidemic is heavily concentrated in urban enclaves like Boston, Detroit, New York, Newark, Washington, D.C., and the Deep South.

Dec. 1 was World AIDS Day! With the COVID pandemic foremost on the minds of many, HIV/ AIDS seems like a distant problem. A POZ Poll…

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Guest Commentary

The Bewildering Reality of Mass Shootings

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

Kelly Loving Daniel Aston Derrick Rump Ashley Paugh Raymond Green Vance

Police are continuing to investigate the motive behind the shooting in which five people were killed and at least 18 others wounded. The suspected gunman, 22-year-old…

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Color of Law

US: Murder of Jayland Walker Was Indeed ‘Routine’ Police Practice

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

He would be alive today, and his encounter with the police would be truly “routine” if only he did not run. Of course, these claims do not hold water – for several reasons.

The June 27 police murder of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio proved yet again what many of us already knew: In the United States, even the…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

White Men Would Rather Be Feared Than Either Loved or Respected and That’s the Problem

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They believed Americans of color would go quietly into the good night - punked, scared, and intimidated by their bully moves. But we didn’t, we showed up!

We’re not even a month removed from the midterm elections, and it’s undeniable the Republican Party of the 21st century is a clear and present danger…

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