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Issue: 954

May 4, 2023

Cover Story

Will Debt Ceiling Talks Have Killing Results?

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The attacks on poor people are recurrent. Extremist Republicans seem to have contempt and antipathy for those hard-working people who live with low wages and challenging working conditions.

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a tumultuous election to his post as House Speaker in January. It took him fifteen votes and innumerable compromises to secure his…

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Guest Commentary

The Real Reason Disney Is Defying DeSantis

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

A corporation does not have morals—it has a bottom line. Disney’s lawsuit against Florida is more about being able to reap profits while underpaying workers than it is about protecting LGBTQ communities.

Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis is eager to cast himself as the new and improved Donald Trump. He has waged a relentless war against what he…

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Color of Law

We Out: Why Black People Need To Study Abroad

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

With “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” people of the African diaspora have been focused on returning home to Africa. This includes the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade in America, those who have shifted their attention to living outside the U.S.

With “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” people of the African diaspora have been focused on returning home to Africa. This includes the victims of the…

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Guest Commentary

Careless and Reckless Endorsing of So-Called Stand-Your-Ground Laws Puts the Lives of Innocent People in Jeopardy

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

there is a segment, regardless of how small that minority is, that are bereft of any reasonable level of emotional discipline and should be forfeited the option of owning them.

Recent shootings have depressingly reminded the nation that accidentally ringing the wrong doorbell, driving to an incorrect residence, mistakenly getting into the incorrect vehicle can result…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The NFL Is an Example of the MAGA “Replacement” Speculation, and That of “Black Power”

By Desi Cortez Columnist

I never thought I’d live to see this “righting,” such a long overdue transformation that should have organically occurred decades ago when the gridiron became integrated.

I’m going to have to admit there’s a measure of incontestable and irrefutable truth to that whole Make America Great/White Again fairy tale King Trump’s cult…

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