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Issue: 942

Feb 9, 2023

Color of Law

Why Are People Protesting Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’?

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Protesters maintain that Cop City will allow the police to continue to kill Black people and thwart and suppress community protest and responses to that police violence.

Despite yearlong protests from environmental and anti-police activists in the Atlanta area, and right on the heels of the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis,…

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Commentary

Black History Month – The Dynamics of Resistance

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

White resistance to Black progress must be met by Black resistance to ignorance. That is our challenge this Black History Month.

Each year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is…

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Guest Commentary

Behold, the New GOP Culture Wars

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being.

Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich…

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Commentary

Pontiff’s Hurtful Statement “Homosexuality Is Not a Crime” Is a Sin – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The LGBTQ+ community worldwide is under constant attack. Pope Francis is a global influencer; he alone can create a movement to decriminalize homosexuality.

Last Month Pope Francis told the Associated Press during an exclusive interview, “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” sending global shock waves again. “It’s not a crime,”…

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Guest Commentary

The Denigration of Black Children

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

In recognition of Bobbi’s donation, Yale’s Peabody Museum named her as the donor scientist on its official database.

On January 20th, the Yale School of Public Health held a ceremony to celebrate Bobbi Wilson, a nine year old Black kid from Caldwell, New Jersey,…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Something Wicked This Way Comes… It’s Ron DeSantis

By Desi Cortez Columnist

a significant percentage, a weighty portion of the American population that supports him, is too racist, sexist, elitist, and xenophobic.

Let me tell you how it really is; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a racist, and he is playing to his racist base. That’s my educated…

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