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Will King's Dream End Without the Voting Rights Act?
Writing at the Huffington Post, Kevin Powell argues that the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down parts of the Voting Rights Act will reverse the progress made by civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. This historic gesture now frees nine American states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance…
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Black Leadership Is Dead; Long Live Black Leadership
Writing at the Washington Post, Kevin Powell weighs in on the state of black leadership. He chides Americans for believing that African Americans need only a few mouthpieces at a time. He argues that it is the farthest thing from the truth. Somewhere between the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr. King and the presidential…
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From Tucson to Brooklyn: Guns in America
“Annie Christian was a whore always looking for some funbeing good was such a bore, so she bought a gunshe killed John Lennon, shot him down coldshe tried to kill Reagan, everybody say gun control” —Prince, “Annie Christian” (1981) ” … a prayer vigil/press conference at Brookdale Hospital to pray for the 16-year-old girl that…
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That Sickening Feeling Again
I am sick to my stomach, and I really do not know what to say. My cell and office phones have been blowing up, and people have been emailing me nonstop because Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora, and Marc Cooper, the three New York City police officers accused of shooting 50 times and murdering Sean…