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Why Not Make Voting Mandatory?
By Charles D. Ellison Convoluted and restrictive voter ID measures got you down? Still rubbing the migraine you got from voter-suppression laws? Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is...
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Harry Siegel: Black lives and hard facts
By Harry Siegel Black lives matter. yalibnan.com Obvious as that should be, it’s needed saying. And saying it and hearing it said has been cathartic. Because too often, the choices Americans have made...
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How Lee Daniels’ ‘Empire’ improved upon Tyler Perry’s brand of drama
By Demetria Lucas D’Oyley courtesy: Fox.com I missed the initial airing of the Empire finale. I’d planned to stay home and live-tweet it like I usually do, but a friend called me crazy. “You’d rather...
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Why the 99 Percent Keeps Losing
By Robert Kuttner (photo credit: Washington Times) Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s...
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Walter Scott: Week by bloody week, my America is sliding back towards slavery
By Michael W. Twitty For the United States, and with it, the entire western world, this past week should have been time to reflect on a monumental anniversary: the true end of chattel slavery in the...
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Amandla Stenberg: Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows
Tell em Lil Sister!!! Filed under: Soul Brother Presents
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The Importance of Knowing Your Worth
By Miki Turner http://www.pinterest.com My mother never earned a college degree, but throughout my childhood she would randomly dole out these pearls of wisdom that gave me a leg up when it came to...
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What Is the Bronx, Anyway?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Sedgwick Houses from the #4 Mt. Eden Subway Station-The Bronx The Bronx, Anthony Bourdain said this fall on an episode of Parts Unknown devoted to the borough, “is a big blank...
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Unlike Gwyneth Paltrow, millennials understand the reality of food stamps
By Jana Kasperkevic photo courtesy of http://foodstampsnow.com If she was true to her word, Gwyneth Paltrow should be finishing up her food stamp challenge having spent a week trying to survive on $29...
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The Politics of Being Woke
By Lawrence Ware “Who polices the woke?” The question caught me off guard. My line brother posed it to me as I was on my way to a meeting. We are members of the first historically black Greek...
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