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Dubois and Trotter: My civil rights heroes

(NNPA)—In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have a healthy...

2014: Unfair and unbalanced media

  Fox News, which mislabels itself as “fair and balanced,” was anything but in 2014, according to MediaMatters.org, the independent media watchdog group. The way...

Watching the elections from abroad

JERUSALEM — On Election Night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this year was different. Instead...

Republicans still earn an ‘F’ for civil rights

George E. Curry (NNPA)—The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights, a coalition of more than 200 human rights groups, has issued a new congressional report card...

The Justice Department after Holder

Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. hasn’t left the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building yet, but civil rights activists are worried about...

Driving while Black—and poor

(NNPA)—St. Louis County has 90 municipalities—ranging in population from 13 to nearly 52,000—and most of them sustain themselves by targeting, fining and jailing poor...

Democrats’ smart butt White boys syndrome

In 1984, former UN Ambassador Andrew Young described the inner circle of Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale as “smart a– White boys” who thought...

The U.S. has always ‘negotiated’ with terrorists

(NNPA)—I disagree with President Obama’s decision to trade five Taliban leaders being  held at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an apparent deserter who...

Right wing media pretends racism doesn’t exist

A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It, Don’t Ever Talk About...

Republicans are veteran hypocrites on the VA

(NNPA)—If you let the Republicans tell it, President Obama is directly responsible for the fiasco at the Veterans Administration.  But they don’t tell you...

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