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Pastor Maina Mwaura: Julian Bond Preaches Intolerance Towards the Religious

By Pastor Maina Mwaura In an op-ed written this week in Politic365.com titled “Religious liberty and inclusion,” Julian Bond proved, once again, that he and the NAACPare slowly becoming an irrelevant organization ...
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Celebrating Juneteenth by William Reed

By William Reed for the Washington Informer Did you know that the official African-American holidays are: Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth? What do you, and your family, do to celebrate Juneteenth? Also known...
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Human Rights Watch Asks Over-Criminalization Task Force to Look at Fed Sentencing

Human Rights Watch sent the following letter to members of the U.S. Congress, regarding the scope of the new Congressional Over-Criminalization Task Force. The Honorable James Sensenbrenner Committee on the Judiciary US House o...
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Julian Bond: Religious Liberty and Inclusion

By Julian Bond By the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement had made significant cultural, legal and political progress in advancing the cause of racial justice and equality under the law – a struggle that continues to thi...
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The Urgency of Now for the Unemployed

By William Spriggs, AFL-CIO The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate increased slightly from 7.5% to 7.6% in May. Each month, comments on this number include a discussion on “labor force partic...
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My Father and the German Engineer

By Dr. Jill Klein At 85, my father is full of optimism and humor. You would never guess that at the age of sixteen he was a victim of the greatest atrocity of the 20th century. In the spring of 1944, he and his family were sent...
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Moral Mondays: A Model Grassroots Movement

By Ben Jealous, President, NAACP On April 29, seventeen dedicated activists were arrested for civil disobedience at the North Carolina General Assembly as they protested attacks on education, health care, voting rights and the ...
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Jobs Are Not the Answer

The current unemployment rate of 7.5% percent means close to 20 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed. Nobody states the obvious truth: that the marketplace has changed and there will never again be enough jobs ...
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House Republicans on Immigration: What Happened? You Were Doing So Well

For months, the anti-immigration policies and rhetoric that threatened the electoral viability of the Republican Party was in remission. From the moment Gov. Romney conceded defeat, sensible Republican leaders admitted they had...
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Virginia’s Restoration of Voting Rights: An American Issue

By Benjamin Todd Jealous, President, NAACP If we want to understand the importance of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s recent voting rights reform, we need to look back all the way to the 1901-1902 Virginia Constitutiona...
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Black “Reality” TV: When Did Selling Our Pain Become A Hot Commodity?

By Tamika Mallory, National Action Network It’s usually hard to find time to just shut down and do nothing.  As someone who is generally on the road at speaking engagements, organizing rallies, or managing my family, I don...
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The Priority Must be Creating Jobs; Not Balancing the Budget

By William Spriggs he Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its economic outlook for the modern, democratic, industrialized economies at its annual meeting of member nation ministers.  It was most...
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1,600 Supporters, Dozens Arrested, Jailed in Fourth Week of Protests in NC

By the Advancement Project More than 1,600 supporters gathered outside the North Carolina General Assembly, cheering on 57 individuals who engaged in civil disobedience during recurring statewide “Moral Monday” protests as ...
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Future Wireless Industry Growth Requires Fair Auctions

By Clayola Brown, President, A. Philip Randolph Institute Access to fast, mobile broadband is a necessity for a woman’s modern life.  No longer simply a convenience, or a resource for men, wireless broadband enables us to st...
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Black Males: An Endangered Species

As I reflect on the condition of Black men and boys in America, one would be hard pressed to find a more endangered species.
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