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The Joys of Voting
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every single one of us holds power in our hands.
I love election season! I love the act of voting. I’ve been loving it since I was seven and my mom let me pull the lever…
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD
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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Where Do You Get Your News?
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Why would they lie?
I was sitting on a bench outside the Los Angeles Union Station, waiting for a friend to pick me up. I had taken a lovely and…
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Trump Falls Apart
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The former president was a shadow of his legendary self who could not seem to connect all of the dots and had to resort to lies – 33 of them according to CNN – to cover both his ineptitude and his ignorance.
I rarely think of Irish poets, but I could not help thinking of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) as I watched the 45th president unravel during his…
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Sheila Jackson Lee – an Energizer Bunny for Justice
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Sheila said she wanted to be an “Energizer Bunny” for Houston, and indeed she was. She was also an Energizer Bunny for social and economic justice.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so…
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JD Vance and Trump: A Double Dose of Rabid Conservatism
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instead of expansion, the former president’s vice-presidential pick signaled that he is drilling down on extreme conservatism,
Since I don’t tell Republicans how to handle their business, I was somewhat indifferent to the Veepstakes that surrounded candidate Trump. Though South Carolina Senator Tim…
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President Biden, Talk to the Voters
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If he talks to the people, he may have more information and he may also be able to quiet some of the chatter that seems dangerously close to bullying.
President Joe Biden missed a great opportunity on June 27. Two days after the disastrous debacle also known as a debate, tens of thousands of people…
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The Mumbler-in-Chief and the Liar-in-Chief
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“They are taking Black jobs”, Trump railed, speaking of immigrants. (By the way, what are “Black” jobs)?
Could the “historic debate” between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump possibly live up to the hype? CNN promoted it nonstop, and had analysis…
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Project 2025 Is an Attack on Black People
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The Project 2025 document would shred the safety net, leaving the poor to fend for themselves, ignoring employment discrimination and the structural inequities that result in the poverty that so many people experience.
Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto if a Republican is elected President in 2024. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation, the 900 page book comprehensively addresses every…
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Felon in Chief
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It is, at best, unseemly for the President of the United States to be a convicted felon.
Now that the former President and the candidate for future President has been convicted of thirty-four felonies, he joins nineteen million other Americans who have such…
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