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Jesse Jackson: The passing of the British Empire | New Pittsburgh Courier
(TriceEdneyWire.com) -Queen Elizabeth II’s death at 96 has occasioned an outpouring of tributes and grieving across the world. Heads of state, including Joe Biden, mourn her passing. Common citizens have built mountains of flowers at her gate. The British football league even postponed its games
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Malveaux: Melvin Van Peebles, creative genius | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com) - One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’sAin’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A. Robert Phillips, who led the Black Talent Program at Boston College, arranged for a group of us undergraduates to attend the play, have dinner, and
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Julianne Malveaux: The teacher shortage is a crisis | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—This August, you couldn't turn on a television or open a newspaper without reading or hearing about the teacher shortage. And it is clear that current shortages are being highly publicized and politicized, with reasons for shortages ranging from low pay to
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J. Pharoah Doss: Recessions and re-education | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The Obama/Biden administration mastered the art of redefining concepts to meet their political objectives. The Bush/Cheney response to 9/11 was defined as a “global war on terror”, but the Obama/Biden administration dropped that terminology for the
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J. Pharoah Doss: A police shooting, a clash of parents, and poor headlines | Chicago Defender
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The following headlines, centering around a mother who confronted demonstrators at a rally for a Black man that was fatally shot by a sniper after a six-hour standoff with the Minneapolis police, illustrate how little respect these news outlets have
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Ben Jealous: Why I went to jail on October 5 | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire..com) - Sometimes friends have to hold friends accountable. That’s why I got arrested outside the White House on Oct. 5.I wastherewith other civil rights and religious leaders to call on President Joe Biden to do more to protect voting rights that are under attack. We
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Check It Out...Does ‘White denial’ disprove ‘White Privilege?’ | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 1988, Peggy McIntosh, a White feminist scholar, wrote a paper called “White Privilege and Male Privilege.” Here the term “White Privilege” was coined and described as “an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions.” McIntosh listed 46 ways
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J. Pharoah Doss: Long games and long shots | Chicago Defender
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s published memoir has a strategic title: The Long Game. Last month, a Fox News contributor bragged about how well Mitch McConnell played the long game to create a conservative majority on the Supreme
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J. Pharoah Doss: Did SCOTUS justify fear of federalism? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In May, Politico published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the abortion rights decision – Roe v. Wade (1973). The leaked draft indicated there was no federal right to abortion, and each state had to make its own law
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J. Pharoah Doss: The coach and the hoax | The Michigan Chronicle
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Home run legend Frank Robinson made his major league debut nine years after Jackie Robinson, no relation, broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947. Frank Robinson was a pioneer in his own right. He became the first Black manager of a Major
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Jan. 6: When does ‘Never Forget’ also mean ‘Don’t Remember?’ | Atlanta Daily World
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Right now, you can go online and buy a tee-shirt that says: 'Never Forget January 6, 2021.' That’s when President Donald Trump, who insisted widespread voter fraud made him lose reelection, held a “stop the steal” rally in Washington, DC on the same
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Jesse Jackson: It’s time for patriots to stand up | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Jesse Jackson Sr. (TriceEdneyWire.com)—America’s democracy is under assault—systematic, unrelenting and unhinged. The assault is waged by one party—the Republican Party. It is largely driven by the lies and racism of Donald Trump, who simply will not accept that he lost the last election. To
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J. Pharoah Doss...BIPOC: Empowering the marginalized? | The Michigan Chronicle
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Last week, I mentioned a press conference in 1988 when Rev. Jesse Jackson stated “Black” no longer describes “our” situation in America. What did he mean? I explained the historical identity-Negro-was imposed by White supremacy. The term was synonymous
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Check It Out...The end of racism? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Three scholars are often celebrated during Black History Month. W.E.B. Dubois (1868–1963) was a founding member of the NAACP. Carter G. Woodson (1875–1962) pioneered Black History Month, and E. Franklin Frazier (1894–1962) was the first Black president
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J. Pharoah Doss: African American: a defense of the term | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 1988 Rev. Jesse Jackson urged Black Americans to drop the adjective “Black” and replace it with “African”. Jackson argued that “Black” no longer described “our” situation in America. The term African American was used for decades. Then Jesse Jackson
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Julianne Malveaux: Our disappearing rights | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—When the Supreme Court overturned Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, it struck a blow to voting rights. No longer did states with a history of discrimination have to submit their plans to make electoral changes to the department of
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J. Pharoah Doss: The end of history or the beginning of the end? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Instead of sighing in relief, the West beat its chest. The following year political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History. Fukuyama didn’t mean history stopped being
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Ben Jealous: Investing in the American people | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress have come through with a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package—something the previous president repeatedly promised but never delivered. The plan will bring much-needed investments to American communities to fix
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A. Peter Bailey: Journalists/propagandists and the Afghanistan military evacuation | New Pittsburgh Courier
by A.Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com)—While watching, listening and reading, about events surrounding the Afghanistan evacuation by correspondents, reporters, columnists, and editorial writers for MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Washington Street
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J. Pharoah Doss: African American: a defense of the term | Chicago Defender
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In 1988 Rev. Jesse Jackson urged Black Americans to drop the adjective “Black” and replace it with “African”. Jackson argued that “Black” no longer described “our” situation in America. The term African American was used for decades. Then Jesse Jackson
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A. Peter Bailey: The real deal at Thomas Jefferson High School | New Pittsburgh Courier
by A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com)—In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion column headlined, “A PTA Purge of Asians,” William McGurn wrote that the PTA of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, located in Arlington, Va., had created ways designed to lessen the number of Asian
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Julianne Malveaux: Economic violence and the safer American plan | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law on June 25, 2022, was a win for the Biden-Harris Administration. The legislation was genuinely bipartisan, more so in the Senate, where 15 Republicans joined 50 Democrats to pass the legislation, than in
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Ben Jealous...Brown v. Board of Education: When the Supreme Court rejected a racist system | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—The U.S. Supreme Court wasn’t always a threat to civil rights. Almost 70 years ago this month, the Court issued its ruling inBrown v. Board of Education, one of the most important in our history. It was unanimous. And it was a glorious moment. Our highest court
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J. Pharoah Doss: Recessions and re-education | Chicago Defender
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The Obama/Biden administration mastered the art of redefining concepts to meet their political objectives. The Bush/Cheney response to 9/11 was defined as a “global war on terror”, but the Obama/Biden administration dropped that terminology for the
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Ben Jealous...Watch the Jan. 6 hearings | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Some extremely important truth-telling is happening in Washington, D.C. right now. I know a lot of people are skeptical about Congress. Sometimes that cynicism is well earned. But the bipartisan House select committee investigating the plot to overturn the 2020
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Ben Jealous: To protect democracy, we have to fix the Supreme Court | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com)—It’s been six months since the Biden-Harris administration began, ushering in an era of hope after four bitter and disheartening years. We have much to celebrate. At the same time, there are ways in which our future is wavering on a knife’s edge: will we fulfill
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A. Peter Bailey: Black history gifts for Black children | New Pittsburgh Courier
by A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com)—During this gift-giving season, it’s very important that serious Black parents provide their children with at least one gift that either introduces them to or broadens their knowledge of Black History. There is a reason why White supremacists in this country
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Ben Jealous: Biden’s promise for diverse judges and federal court diversity | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) - One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal courts witheven moreanti-voting-rights, anti-equality, pro-corporate judges. Stopping the flood of bad Trump judges was a huge accomplishment
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Check It Out: A critical race equation: CRT – R = CT | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Too many opponents of Critical Race Theory demonized the doctrine by calling it Marxist with no further explanation. That gave the impression those doing the demonizing were the only ones afraid of the doctrine. There’s no reason to demonize the term
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Jesse Jackson: No longer serious doubt; global warming is real—now what do we do about it? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Jesse Jackson Sr. (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. Flash floods in England and Germany. Blinding dust storms in China. One hundred year cyclones devastate Fiji and
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