Greater Commentary

What Blacks Need To Do: Summer Educational Plans for Students and Parents

PROBLEMS: Many students never open a book during the summer. They sleep until around 1:00 pm and only get up to raid the refrigerator when their stomachs start to growl from hunger pains. They hang out in the mall, a

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To Be Equal: A Message for the Class of 2015

“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. / It’s had tacks in it, /And splinters, / And boards torn up, / And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare. / But all the time / I’se been a-climbin’ on,

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What Blacks Need To Do Who or what is the first Priority in this allegory?

THE PROBLEMS: A husband went to the police station to file a missing persons report. Husband: “I lost my wife. She went shopping and hasn’t come back yet.” Police: “What is her height?” Husband: “Average, I guess.” Police: “Slim or

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The Quest for an Equal Opportunity America

Educate, organize and mobilize – (thethirdreconstruction.com) – Many concerned Americans, me included, are searching for ways to get our country beyond its long history of segregation and racial division.  To this end, the mission of the Third Reconstruction is to create a

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Five Ways to Avoid Altercations With the Police

By Matthew R. Drayton During the past few months, there has been numerous incidents— some tragic—where police officers were accused of brutality and abuse of power against African Americans, including Ferguson, South Carolina and New York being the most well-known.

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Which States are “Most Democratic”? N.C. and New Hanover County, Take Heed!

Gallup’s recent “State of the State” series1 reveals that Massachusetts and Maryland are the most “Democratic” states (with an over 20 percentage point advantage), and Wyoming and Utah are the most “Republican (with an over 30 percentage point advantage). Our

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Open Letter to Starbucks and USA Today

The conversation on race in our country is changing. Once a subject left to be discussed by civil rights leaders, organizers and a few non-profits, race is now a topic for many. Names like Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner,

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Police Brutality Action Kit

Art by Tes One Artwork from www.showingupforracialjustice.org Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) was formed in 2009 by white people from across the US to respond to the significant increase of targeting and violence against people of color. The killings

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Add Economic Justice to the Black Agenda

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist The groundswell for criminal justice reform has become nearly daily headline news. Demonstrations spanning the nation and many parts of the globe have demanded justice for those lives taken by questionable and fatal police behavior. Yet,

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To Be Equal: This Is Why We March

By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist “It’s just so overwhelming to see all who have come to stand with us. Look at the masses – Black, White, all races, all religions…We need to stand like this at all times.” – Gwen

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