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Can We Rebuild Black Wall Street?
By Dr. James Clingman “There are [Blacks] who are willing to worship the pyramids of 4,000 years ago, but will not build pyramids in the present so their children may see what they left behind […]
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What Does “Make America Great Again” Really Mean?
by Reggie Fullwood For months I have avoided writing about Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. I shouldn’t even call it Trump’s slogan because it’s really conservative propaganda that’s been repeated by numerous candidates and people who […]
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Changing Party Affiliation is Not the Answer to Impacting Local Elections
by Leslie Jean-Bart The Supervisor of Elections offices have been inundated with voters switching from Democrat, Independent, and NPA (no party affiliation) to Republican. Is there a conservative wave taking over Northeast Florida? Not quite. […]
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Another Missed Opportunity
By George E. Curry George Curry Media Columnist DURBAN, South Africa – On my first night here to cover the 26th International AIDS Conference, I had dinner with Phill Wilson, president and CEO of the […]
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Is There Corporate Leadership or Racial Justice?
By Julianne Malveaux When North Carolina passed laws eliminating anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, along with it passed its “bathroom bill,” mandating that transgender people use the bathroom of their birth […]
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O’Reilly Says MLK Would Not Have Supported Black Lives
By George Curry Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly escalated his ongoing attack on the Black Lives Matter Movement by asserting without a hint of evidence that if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive, he […]
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Having Learned from Past Missteps – Clinton is Ready to be the First Female President
Sometimes two unprecedented movements cannot survive at the same time. One has to precede the other. The Civil Rights Movement paved the way for other humanitarian movements around the world – including the ending of […]
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Intellectual Honesty about Race and Criminal Justice Reform
Ben Chavis By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr NNPA President & CEO There is an old adage that posits “The more things appear to change, the more they stay the same.” Once again millions of Americans […]
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How Much Do Black Child Lives Matter?
by Marian Wright Edelman Four little girls were changing into choir robes and chatting in a church restroom preparing for the Youth Sunday services at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, […]
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Dallas Shootings A Tragic End To Week Of Police Violence; But Where Do We Go From Here?
Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com Hours after Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, loaded a high-powered rifle and meticulously shot 12 Dallas police officers –killing five — a lawyer friend sent me an email saying: “Sooner or later, someone […]