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Issue: 970

Sept 21, 2023

Cover Story

Understanding Gentrification and Displacement in Roxbury

By Dr. James Jennings, PhD Editorial Board

We must ensure that community voices are strengthened and sustain lest the future be determined by real estate and big corporate markets rife with concentrated wealth, and which would result in continuing gentrification and displacement, increasing income and wealth inequality, and persistent poverty.

This is a synopsis of a study published in 2016 about gentrification in Boston, Massachusetts, still one of the most segregated, and most expensive to live…

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Maui is Cooking

Cartoon

Maui is Cooking

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

There Has Always Been Class Warfare

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

Predatory capitalists are capturing the benefits of both worker productivity and worker concessions, resulting in record profits among auto manufacturers. President Joe Biden was spot on when he said that record profits ought to mean record contracts.

The United Auto Workers and the Big Three automobile manufacturers – Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis haven’t been able to come to agreement about worker compensation,…

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Commentary

Tim Scott’s Homophobic Party Queries Him – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Being married or single should not be the litmus test for presidential elect-ability any more than one’s religion, however, queries about his unattached status would go away, as it has for New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker, 54, if he were not anti- LGBTQ

Tim Scott is running for president. It’s an impressive feat as the only African American Republican in today’s U.S. Senate and the first Southern Black senator…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Donald Trump Is a Flight Risk

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Look around - Lady Justice is a Black woman.

Donald Trump is absolutely a flight risk, a runaway hustler, in waiting. Donald Trump is a suspected flight risk and an imminent runaway, leaving in his…

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Commentary

National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2023

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2023

National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2023

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