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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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The President has said many times that we talk about enslavement too much. I say we cannot talk about it often enough.
When does a depiction of history turn into a “corrosive ideology”? When the current administration is working overtime to erase facts about our nation’s history and…
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This administration is committed to criminalizing dissent, and they have dozens of elected lackeys following the instructions of their mob boss.
Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). She…
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Congress has authority, but they fail to use it.
Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice, many Republicans kissing the ring…
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A month or so ago, the State Department destroyed $10 million worth of birth control supplies purchased by USAID for women in developing countries. Fraud, waste and abuse, anyone?
The dystopian man who lives in the House that Enslaved People Built campaigned that he would reduce inflation (not), eliminate “fraud waste and abuse” and address…
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In a reign of terror, though, some children are to be cherished and others to be terrorized.
They came to MacArthur Park on horseback and in riot gear, their faces covered and their weapons out. They were part of the Immigration and Customs…
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At a time when employment needs demand flexibility, legislation is insisting on punitive rigidity. Who in Congress will speak up for our nation’s students?
The big ugly boondoggle, which our President calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of resources from the poor to the wealthy, preserving 2017…
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most of these people are not the “dangerous criminals” that our very dangerous president rails about.
Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town where all…
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African American Music Appreciation Month ought to remind us of those early musicians who took spoons to pots to create a beat, or those gospel singers who invoked the sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home. It ought to lift subterfuge, how we used hidden meaning in songs to communicate.
Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first officially…
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Someone without health insurance is 40 percent more likely to die prematurely than someone with health insurance.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst illustrated her shortsighted myopia at a town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa. Not only did she defend cuts that would remove, according…
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