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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Kneeling: This is America
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Two years ago, the multi-talented Donald Glover, aka “Childish Gambino” made history and controversy with his hit song “This Is America.” The song, which requires the accompanying video to fully appreciate the underlying complexity of the verses, won a Grammy, Best Music Video and Best Rap/Performance. The lyrics […]
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Price Controls Punish U.S. Innovators and Economy
By Sally C. Pipes America’s biopharmaceutical industry dwarfs most other economic sectors. It’s one of our nation’s single biggest job creators, supporting close to a million positions across the country. And its products save countless lives each year. Yet for some reason, politicians in both parties seem determined to snuff it out by imposing crippling […]
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Failure to Plan Is a Plan to Fail: Why Wisconsin Needs an Immediate Election Remedy
By LaKeshia Myers No matter where one falls on the political spectrum, it is abundantly clear that Wisconsin needs to implement measures to ensure our Fall elections are safe and accessible to all voters. To date, there have been no concrete plans to ensure accessibility to the ballot box for the August and November elections. […]
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