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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Sharon Kyle, JD, is a formerpresident of the Guild Law School and is the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive. For years before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon sits onseveral boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU. She is a contributing writer to Black Politics Today. Follow @SharonKyle00. Contact the LA Progressive, Ms. Kyle and BC.
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In his autobiography, former slave Frederic Douglass writes that the single greatest fear harbored by every slave was being separated from their children or having their children taken from them, destined for the auction block.
I received an email from a cousin I’ve never met—one I didn’t know existed ’til I heard from her. After brief intros, she wanted to know…
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By taking Donald Trump at his word, Planned Parenthood is urging its followers to oppose the confirmation of Kavanaugh. Taking this to its logical conclusion — every Trump nominee should be deemed a threat to a woman’s right to choose
Many believe the recent nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice to fill the seat vacated by Justice Kennedy represents an extreme threat to…
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The firing of Rob Rogers must be met with opposition. With the repeal of Net Neutrality, your access to the kind of content you choose to read could be greatly controlled by your internet service provider (ISP) in the very near future. While you still can, do what you can to RESIST.
For hundreds of years, political cartoonists have produced content that informs in ways that can’t be achieved by written content or photojournalism alone. This form of…
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Starbucks and MSNBC and any other organization attempting to take actions they feel will bridge the racial divide should be applauded. But ultimately we all must come to the realization that we are all being played.
Rosanne Barr’s racist comment got a lot of attention this week but we’ve seen this story before. Some of us remember Don Imus with his “nappy-headed…
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Most of us would consider it immoral or even criminal to withhold a life-saving drug merely to extract a profit. So why do American taxpayers support this practice?
This should be a no-brainer: If you had access to a drug that treated a potentially fatal disease and knew someone who didn’t have access but…
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As well intentioned and sincere the CEO may be, and I have no reason to doubt his intentions, he offers nothing that would lead a black person to believe that these actions will result in a significant change in the behavior of Starbucks employees.
And third, to reassure you that Starbucks stands firmly against discrimination or racial profiling. In the coming days, I will be joining our regional vice president,…
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Left untold in most of our history books are the many benefits the United States granted to European immigrants and their descendants but denied others.
we, as a nation, are pretty much okay with it. But having this team in my home every day for two weeks really got under my…
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why, even after achieving major civil rights victories, do progressives continue to find that injustices simply reconstitute themselves - returning not long after the “victory” is achieved.
While I was visiting with a group of fellow progressive activists, a man shared a story from his youth about his earliest memory of injustice. He…
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One contributing factor that doesn't get discussed enough is the public's naive belief in the fairness of our justice system. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that the United States has a legal system that dwarfs that of every other nation—but calling it a justice system seems to be a stretch.
I‘ve been listening to a podcast I wish I could have heard while in high school—I probably would have gone to law school earlier than I…
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