It is a good thing that America has been a lead nation in both providing humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine. It is good that we as a nation, Democrat […]
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Black history, Black print and you
Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the work he left behind certainly makes the case today for the study of Black History. Without his work most of us would not know […]
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Martinez effort to ‘hand pick’ District 10 representative draws controversy
Editor’s Note: Just before press time, City Council President Nury Martinez made a motion to appoint former District 10 Councilman Herb Wesson to substitute for Mark Ridley-Thomas, pending Council approval. […]
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The President and the spread of voter suppression
With the failure to overturn the Filibuster Rule in the United States Senate, it would appear that the John Lewis Voting Act and the Voting Rights Act are dead because […]
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The politics of returning to the ‘Wild, Wild West’
Although the original “Wild, Wild West” of the John Wayne-type movies never really existed in the U.S. (most of those depictions were based on the imaginations and embellishments of eastern […]
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Landmark $1.85 billion in relief for federal and private loan borrowers
A broad coalition of state attorneys general (AGs) recently secured student loan debt cancellation and restitution against Navient, the nation’s largest student loan servicer. Pending federal court approval of the […]
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Our broken democracy
Flaws reach back to the founding of America A year ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of crazed insurrectionists descended on the United States Capitol. Armed, angry and bent on […]
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The politics of putting on a new face representing the United States
More and more, the edge of the cliff keeps drawing near. As much as the United States means to us now, in spite of the whirlwind of nastiness and bad […]
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As the new year begins
The end of a year or a day is often a time of reflection on both what has been done and what could have been done better. While we can’t […]
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The politics of doing the help we claim to bring
On Nov 9, the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), International, a group which initially formed in Los Angeles in 2006, and the Liberian government of President George Weah, signed a […]