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Still broke? Top earners are sucking up the cash

One of the most significant problems confronting Black people and working people in the United States is income disparity. And it is only getting worse. A recent study documented a steady siphoning of worker income during every period for the last 40 years with obscene amounts of money flowing to those at the top. Wages for the bottom 90 percent of...

NBA Superstars Resist Pressure To Take Deadly Covid-19 ‘Vaccine’

“Mr. Alan Dershowitz, if you bring the Covid-19 vaccine and say you’re going to bring your army to force us to take it, once you try to force us, that’s a declaration of war on all of us. You only have this one life. Fight like hell to keep it and fight like hell to destroy those whose heart...

What did 2020 mean for Black people?

It has been said that if the true history of the Black man and woman in America were ever told, it would be enough to make a brass monkey cry. The monkey must have shed tears in 2020 as Black people suffered mightily according to all social indicators. Fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 revealed terrible disparity in health, housing,...

Words Matter: How the Wicked Tamper With the Meaning of Words to Hide Vaccine Genocide

Warning to parents: Read this article and take appropriate steps “As you know, the Revelation of the Bible under the title of John, teaches us that the old dragon beast (referring to the white civilization) deceived the whole world, and they have done just that. Allah has taught me they deceived 90 per cent of the total population of the...

Trump administration’s push to designate Cuba terror sponsor slammed by critics

During its final days in power, the Donald Trump administration is pushing to designate Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism.  Observers of United States-Cuba relations see the move as cynical, particularly at a time of global mitigation of coronavirus where Cuba has experienced success, while the U.S. suffers the highest numbers of cases and deaths worldwide. Some analysts find it...

Denver suburb to pay $15M to settle Elijah McClain lawsuit

DENVER—The Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a neck hold two years ago, the city and family attorneys announced. A federal magistrate judge accepted terms of the...

‘A slap in the face again’ Flint livid as minor charges filed against former Michigan governor in deadly water scandal

After a two-year investigation to determine which Michigan government officials were directly responsible for the poisoning of almost 100,000 Flint residents, announcement of the charges produced more vexation, deep anger and frustration. Attorney General Dana Nessel told the embattled residents that justice delayed would not be justice denied. She promised that residents would receive justice in the end but seeing...

Mississippi Injustice: Extreme sentencing keeping Blacks in jail for life

by Anisah MuhammadContributing Writer @MuhammadAnisah When Tameka Drummer went to prison at the age of 34, her youngest child was only four years old. Her child is now 17. The 47-year-old Black mother of four is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Her crime? Possessing less than two ounces of marijuana. In the southern state of Mississippi, Black...

With Homeland Security laws and curbs on civil liberties, Americans are losing considrable rights , observers warn

Bush's Domestic Enemies List (Black Commentator)Civil liberties under attack by administration (Ft. Pierce Tribune)Anti terror laws produce new crisis for Black leadership (FinalCall.com) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)–The Bush administration has had a lot to celebrate over recent days and civil liberties advocates have gotten more worried. First, with one of the last acts of the 107th Congress aimed at creation of a new...

In Ronald Greene’s death, a mother’s defiant quest for truth

ORLANDO, Fla.—Mona Hardin calls it her walking nightmare. She’s haunted by the body-camera images of her son Ronald Greene being punched, stunned and dragged by Louisiana State Police, and she’s enraged that troopers initially tried to explain away the Black man’s 2019 death as the result of a car crash. She holds tightly to her son’s cremated remains and says she...