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BC Editorial Board Member Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD (JulianneMalveaux.com) is former dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State, the Honorary Co- Chair of the Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute as well as The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. Her latest book is Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy. A native San Franciscan, she is the President and owner of Economic Education a 501 c-3 non-profit headquartered in Washington, D.C. During her time as the 15th President of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Malveaux was the architect of exciting and innovative transformation at America’s oldest historically black college for women. Contact Dr. Malveaux and BC.
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"Does the Pope accept the notion that Catholicism must go hand-in-hand with colonialization? Does he accept the oppression that came with the 'saving of souls?'"
October 01, 2015 - Issue 623 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; A Compassionate Pope? "Does the Pope accept the notion that Catholicism must go hand-in-hand with colonialization?…
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"Due process is defined as the legal requirement that the state must respect all the legal rights due to a person. When did James Blake get due process? Frascatore tackled Blake with neither provocation nor even conversation."
September 24, 2015 - Issue 622 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Who Gets Due Process Blake Or Frascatore? "Due process is defined as the legal requirement that…
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Why are House Republicans so determined to have a budget showdown? Part of it is their determination to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. They refuse to understand that, in addition to providing abortion service, Planned Parenthood provides basic women’s health services, including gynecological examinations.
Congress must approve a budget by October 1, or our government will shut down. That means that people will not be paid and technically, government departments…
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Can race be a factor? What happens when mental illness collides with racial rage? The man who shot Alison Parker and Adam Ward either experienced or perceived racial slights.
Alison Parker, a rookie news reporter at WDJB, the Roanoke, Virginia CBS affiliate, had turned 24 just days before she was murdered on August 26. Her…
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"Her focus on working families and middle class families is great, but she might try to say a word or two about the poor. Poor folks won’t write checks, but if they feel included they can surely vote."
September 03, 2015 - Issue 619 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Will Hillary Prevail? "Her focus on working families and middle class families is great, but she…
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Black lives have been devalued since the development of our Constitution when it counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person. To proclaim that Black Lives Matter is to rebut this constitutional flaw.
It ought to be unnecessary for an activist movement to hinge on the principle of the equivalency of life. In the worlds of Democratic presidential candidates…
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"President Obama’s commutations of non-violent drug sentences are a step in the right direction. By choosing non-violent drug offenders, he highlights the draconian sentences that those committing these crimes receive."
July 23, 2015 - Issue 616 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Let Non-Violent Drug Offenders Go "President Obama’s commutations of non-violent drug sentences are a step in…
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The burnings ought to spark a resistance to racism unlike any we have seen in the past. These church fires ought to infuse us with the passion of Bree Newsome, the African American woman who climbed up a pole and snatched the Confederate flag from a pole outside the South Carolina statehouse.
It’s possible lightening may have caused one of the fires. Another may be the result of faulty electricity. Still, in the past couple of weeks, there…
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Those who embrace the Confederacy seem to forget that THE CONFEDERACY LOST. The cornerstone principle of White supremacy was defeated when the Confederacy lost the war, but the losing Confederacy left us with all kinds of tributes to United States traitors.
If you drive South on US 95, you can see some version of the so-called Confederate flag (there are maybe seven iterations of the flag, parts…
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