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Issue: 938

Jan 12, 2023

Cover Story

The King Holiday Reflects Our Resilience

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

One of the ways we continue the struggle is to ensure that everyone who sings “the Black Birthday song” realizes that the song is a tribute to Dr. King and was part of the struggle that was waged to make his birthday a national holiday.

Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), introduced legislation to…

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MLK

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MLK

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Color of Law

MLK Disobeyed Unjust Laws. The State of America Today Requires That We Not Forget That

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Jim Crow segregation statutes were a prime example of unjust laws because “segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality,” as King noted. “It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.”

Martin Luther King Jr. is a symbol of peace, justice and nonviolence, but he is often misquoted, misunderstood and invoked for nefarious purposes that have nothing…

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Guest Commentary

When America Fixes Its Racism

By Leslie D. Gregory, PA-C Guest Commentator

When we fix racism those countless lives lost to racist terror will not have been in vain.

When we fix racism we’ll save or recoup the $16 trillion estimated to be lost in just this century, not accounting for the $2.4 billion related…

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Guest Commentary

Freedom: Challenging Domination or License To Dominate?

By Dr. Cynthia Kaufman, PhD Guest Commentator

You’ve watched the Republican Party champion the idea of “freedom” while you have also watched the same party openly assault various freedoms, like the freedom to vote, freedom to choose, freedom to marry who you want, and so on.

When the people on the streets in Iran use the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the freedom they refer to is freedom from domination. Iranians are living…

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Guest Commentary

Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.

There is a common feeling that many of us have experienced in professional or academic environments, especially when we struggle against gender or racial bias. It’s…

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Guest Commentary

Where Are Today’s Eisenhowers, Butlers, and Shoups?

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

Where are the leaders with the courage to advocate for peace whenever possible in place of more and more war?

As a teenager in the 1970s, I recall talking to my dad about fears of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. My…

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Crook

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Crook

By Mark Hurwitt

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