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What We Can Learn from the Black Panther Party Today
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What We Can Learn from the Black Panther Party Today

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire ColumnistJanuary 5, 2017

Matthew “Peanut” Johnson was 16 years-old when San Francisco police officer Alvin Johnson killed him. The unarmed teen was said to have been fleeing a stolen car, and Officer Johnson claimed that he feared for his life, so he shot.

Four Lessons Americans Should Learn from the “Brexit” Vote
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Four Lessons Americans Should Learn from the “Brexit” Vote

July 7, 2016

The day after 52 percent of United Kingdom citizens voted to leave the European Union, Google was deluged with questions. The most common – what is the European Union?  That suggests that the people who voted to leave the European Union didn’t even know what it was. They didn’t know that financial institutions, headquartered in London, might shut down their offices because they would lose the advantage they had by considering London a European banking center. They didn’t know that thousands of jobs now based in London might migrate to Paris or Brussels, because international banks wanted European centers of

What If Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Was Black
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What If Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Was Black

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire ColumnistApril 7, 2016

It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known as the Donald Trump quest for the Presidency. He has called out and targeted racial and ethnic groups, as well as targeted individual women because of their appearance (or more, but we won’t go there). He has supported basic thuggery, offering to pay the legal fees for a man who sucker-punched an African American protester, and egging on others who beat up a protester. The latest goes from the amusing to the amazing. Although there is a video showing his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski putting his hands on former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, he and Trump have said that eyes can lie. Even in the face of video evidence, he denied touching Fields. He and Trump tried to dismiss her as “delusional,” essentially “blaming the victim.”

Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?
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Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?

Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire ColumnistMarch 9, 2016

Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales agents for her products, and of establishing a beauty school to teach beauty techniques (and provide economic empowerment for even more women) are the stuff of legend. She was not only an entrepreneur, but also a philanthropist. She “lived large,”  owning two cars and a sprawling estate, Villa Lewaro in Irvington, New York, but she shared her wealth

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Why Do Politicians Treat Addiction Differently in the Suburbs?

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire ColumnistFebruary 17, 2016

Nick Cocchi would like to be the sheriff of Hampden County, an Eastern Massachusetts county of half a million people. Springfield, Massachusetts, a city that is about 22 percent African American, is the county seat. Eastern Massachusetts (and indeed, much of New England) is experiencing the devastating fallout from the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that deaths from heroin overdoses have quadrupled in the past decade, and that heroin use has doubled among Whites. Thus, it is entirely appropriate that Mr. Cocchi’s candidate website includes a page that talks about opioid abuse

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Economic Inequality at Home and Abroad

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire ColumnistJanuary 27, 2016

Days before the opening of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam, the international organization that works on world poverty issues, released a report that addressed inequality. They found the international wealth gap growing rapidly. Last year, just 62 individuals had the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the bottom half of the world population.

The State of the Union Address: Class Act, Crass Responses
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The State of the Union Address: Class Act, Crass Responses

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire ColumnistJanuary 20, 2016

President Obama did his thing when he delivered the State of the Union address (SOTU) on Tuesday night. There was confidence in his speech, some off-the-cuff humor and a little swagger when he rattled off his accomplishments and asserted that the SOU is “strong.” While I disagree with parts of the address, especially around economic issues, I was delighted with the President’s forceful tone, and with his insistence of speaking both of issues and of our toxic political climate.

This Is How the Holidays Expose Income Inequality
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This Is How the Holidays Expose Income Inequality

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire ColumnistDecember 29, 2015

In progressive policy circles, and during the Democratic presidential debates, people are talking about income inequality. Though this phenomenon has always been with us, the activists who are demanding $15 per hour pay remind us that some have much and too many have too little. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have pulled Democrats into the conversation, some kicking and screaming. President Obama, who barely mentioned the word “poverty” in the first six years of his presidency, has recently talked about income inequality.