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Why We Need Common-Sense Gun Safety Reform — Obama

President Obama                                                           Five years ago this week, a sitting member of Congress and 18 others were shot at, at a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona.  It ...

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Hillary Clinton: Why Employers Should Give Ex-Offenders A Second Chance

Hillary Clinton [Elections 2016] Joe Madison’s interview with Hillary Clinton on SiriusXM Urban View this past weekend. Joe Madison:  Let me welcome Secretary Hillary ...

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Desperado: Failing GOP Presidential Candidate Chris Christie’s Attacks On #BlackLivesMatter

Chris Christie’s not the chosen one– when when all else fails, demonize Black folk [Speaking Truth To Power] Last week the failing Republican presidential ...

20th anniversary of the Million Man March

ACTION PLAN: WHAT DO YOU INTEND TO DO THE DAY AFTER MILLION MAN MARCH ANNIVERSARY 20?

Let’s help create a better future for him [Publisher’s Commentary] On the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March the numbers have not disappointed ...

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Without A Truth Process How Can We Have Reconciliation In The US?

In South Africa it was Bishop Tutu who chaired Truth and Reconciliation Commission  This is the cry of the Hebrew prophet Habakkuk: “O Lord, ...

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Who stole Vester Lee Flanagan II’s soul? Was it him? Or was it the society that he seemed utterly convinced was out to get ...

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Thank Donald Trump For Exposing How Racism Defines The Republican Party

  Donald Trump keeps telling it like it is — the Republican way   So racism is okay but disrespecting a war veteran is ...

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Profiles in Courage (South Carolina edition)

During Wednesday’s highly controversial, contentious, and emotional debate in the South Carolina House of Representatives about whether to remove the Confederate flag from the ...

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Flesh And Blood: The Individual Stories Of The Nine Charleston Massacre Victims

To think they even have to “debate” whether this should be removed or not… The lives of six women and three men were cut ...

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Amazing Grace: More Reflections Upon Barack Obama’s Charleston Euology

Obama delivers. He left Clementa Pinckney’s funeral as a Black man who happened to be president. If Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” ...