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21st Century Challenges Require New Mindsets and New Behavior
Larry AubryOpinion

21st Century Challenges Require New Mindsets and New Behavior

Larry AubryOctober 18, 2018

Demographic changes in California and throughout the nation are profoundly altering the political landscape. Not the least of such changes is the impact of the huge increase in the Latino population. Cleary, Latinos are already asserting their new found political strength. This threatens many African Americans, who rather than work to strengthen relations with Latinos, for mutual benefit, seem determined to cling to their own highly limited  past political and economic gains, real and imagined. 

A Letter from America’s Children
Op-EdOpinion

A Letter from America’s Children

By Ron Harris, NNPA NewswireJuly 12, 2018

Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald Trump’s cruel and faulty immigration policies, What about us? We understand and applaud your response to this administration’s malevolent separation of immigrant families from their children—policies and practices so un-American and shocking that they have come to dominate the national conversation. Your immediate, visceral response to evil spurred you into action. But there is another evil, a pervasive, chronic and unrelenting wickedness that we, your children, live with every day. We are being shot down on the nation’s streets, locked

White Privilege Aided By Minimizing Race
Larry AubryOpinion

White Privilege Aided By Minimizing Race

Larry AubryApril 26, 2018

The ongoing reality of white privilege cannot be overemphasized and should never be minimized. Why? As the face of racism, white privilege perpetuates America’s foundational tenet, i.e., to control and oppress people on the basis of race or ethnicit

Affirming Black Students Home Language
Larry AubryOpinion

Affirming Black Students Home Language

Larry Aubry          June 1, 2017

The failure of public schools to properly educate Black students is criminal. They have long been at the bottom of virtually every measure of effective schooling. Yet the Black community has remained largely on the sidelines; its dominant response, silence.

Prohibitions and Bans: Serious, Unintended Consequences
Dr. Ben ChavisOpinion

Prohibitions and Bans: Serious, Unintended Consequences

Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., National Newspaper Publishers AssociationJune 1, 2017

Rapidly shifting U.S. demographics are fueling the urgency of civil rights leaders, social scientists, policy makers, and public health professionals to focus their attention on policies designed to close the gap in racial and ethnic health disparities and ensure justice and equity in communities of color. In the interest of social justice, the good intent of policies developed and endorsed by dedicated public servants requires, however, a thorough and thoughtful consideration of the impact of unintended consequences of those policies in communities of color across the nation.

Blacks Have a lot to Lose with Trump’s New Budget
NewsPolitical

Blacks Have a lot to Lose with Trump’s New Budget

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire ContributorApril 5, 2017

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” targets a number of programs for severe cuts or outright elimination—programs that often help poor, working-class and Black families.