By LaKeshia Myers I recently saw an advertisement for a PBS special celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage. In the commercial, was a photo of Ida B. Wells, a journalist, who, during her lifetime chronicled the extreme racial violence and lynching that was perpetrated by whites against African American communities. After seeing the […]
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Mandatory College Football Practices at Time of Pandemic are Nuts
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has just ruled that mandatory football practices can begin in July, anticipating a full season of college football. This is nuts. The pandemic isn’t going away; it’s surging in more than 29 states, with seven reporting new records for cases in a day. States that […]
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COMMENTARY: Counseling Helps in Adapting to a New Norm A Healthy Mind
By Dr. Stacia’ Alexander Texas Metro News iMessenger Media The sudden call to think extremely out of the norm took nearly the entire population of the world out of their comfort zone. Many took the stance of a sincere awareness, but some were so distanced from it that there was little change in pattern. They […]
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George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota still hasn’t gotten an anti-lynching law through Congress
This article was originally published by www.nbcnews.com Floyd’s death at the hands of police is a tragic marker of the 100th anniversary of the last lynching in the state. By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Professor of constitutional law at John Jay College Anyone can see that the lynching of more than 4,000 people over the history […]
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When Race and Poverty Collide
By LaKeshia Myers James Baldwin once said, “If we were white, our heroes would be your heroes too. Malcolm X would still be alive…when the Israelis or the Poles pick up guns and say ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ the entire white world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, […]
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George Floyd: Protests, Police, and Prosecutors
By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Gloria J. Browne-Marshall: This is “Law of the Land.” The relationship between the prosecutor and the police department is so close. That same prosecutor who is so efficient in getting indictments and charging papers for civilian upon civilian crimes becomes completely inept when a police officer is a defendant. We have […]
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Now is The Time for Racial Justice
By Ellen M. Gilligan President and CEO, Greater Milwaukee Foundation There are two public health crises in America right now. One is quite recent. One has been afflicting us for generations. Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and […]
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The Time is Always Right to Do Right
By LaKeshia Myers “Welcome to the struggle”—this was the simple yet most profound answer I was able to give to some of my Caucasian colleagues when they asked me to reflect on the national protests of the murder of George Floyd. There are no words that can describe my emotions; what happened to Mr. Floyd […]
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‘I Can’t Breathe – The Murder of George Floyd was a Lynching in Broad Daylight.’
The signs say Black Lives Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed to protect us too often, in too many places, don’t seem to agree. By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. President and Founder – Rainbow PUSH Coalition Three police officers stood and watched as a fourth, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck. They watched […]
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Americans Have United Before to Defeat an External Enemy and we can Again
By Jesse Jackson We live in a time of bitter divisions. Today, even the wearing of masks has become a partisan question. Yet, as this Memorial Day weekend reminds us, this country has united before to meet external threats. The calamity that has been wrought by the coronavirus is the result of an external attack […]
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