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Issue: 951

Apr 13, 2023

Cover Story

Why Are We Ignoring Our Children?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Anyone can offer thoughts and prayers. Who is willing to change policy to protect our students?

The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school, locked and loaded…

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Guest Commentary

Mass Shootings! Pentagon Leaks!

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

We live in a violent society with roughly 400 million guns, and we’ve already seen 146 mass shootings in 2023.

Yet another mass shooting, this one in Louisville, Kentucky, and once again I marvel at the language used to describe such occurrences. The shooting that left…

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Color of Law

Why We Should Care About the Wisconsin Supreme Court Win

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

this race is proof that while politics is local, local politics can have serious implications on a statewide and national level.

In what was one of the most closely watched and most expensive races of the election season, liberals scored a victory in the contest for the…

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View from the Battlefield

The Revolution Will Probably Be Televised

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

if we’re committed to fighting the systems of governmental and capitalist oppression, those systems are not going to pay us to bring them down. An environmental nonprofit whose major funder is ExxonMobil is not likely to make much headway in the quest for environmental justice.

Almost twenty years ago, INCITE! held a national conference with the theme, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE! is a…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Clarence Thomas: A Product of the Republican Plantation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

the Confederacy isn’t a long past geographical location. No, it’s a heartfelt and deeply embraced uncivilized value system and way of life which is alive and well across America.

To my people: Don’t be afraid to raise your fist and yell out “Black Power!” There’s just something inspiring about seeing a Black person, with a…

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