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Four years ago, Donald Trump asked Black voters, “What do you have to lose?” As a foreign policy professional with... View Article The post What we have to lose with Trump: Honor for Africa and the diaspora appeared first on TheGrio.
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Bernie Did Not Fail - The New Journal and Guide
In this week of the very unconventional Democratic national convention, I think of Bernie Sanders. I agree with renowned scholar-activist Noam Chomsky that Bernie did not fail. Instead, in a real sense, he
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