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Members of Power converge on the 18th & Spruce Sts. Starbucks during Councilman Kenyatta Johnson’s press conference last week protesting the arrest of Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson.  (Photo by Solomon Williams)   By Linda Wallace I was chasing a big story in a small Texas town when I came face to face to with my…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Feb. 11, 1990, file photo, Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, raise clenched fists as they walk hand-in-hand upon his release from prison in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Greg English, File)   By Jesse Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Winnie Madikizela Mandela has been laid to rest and honored at a state…

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By State Rep. Morgan Cephas (D-Phila) April 10th was Equal Pay Day, or the day that symbolically marks how much longer women have to work to catch up to what men earned in the previous year. Quite a lot of overtime, right? In Pennsylvania, women are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Naomi Wadler, 11, a student at George Mason Elementary School, who organized a school walkout at her school in Alexandria, Va., after the school shooting in Parkland, Fa., speaks during the “March for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control in Washington, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)   By Julianne…

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ABOVE PHOTO: The 2010 Census forms in Phoenix. The 2020 U.S. Census will add a question about citizenship status, a move that brought swift condemnation from Democrats who said it would intimidate immigrants and discourage them from participating. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) By Derrick Johnson NAACP President and CEO newsone.com In the 200 plus…

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By Marc H. Morial TriceEdneyWire.com “By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Shutterstock   Raynard Jackson, the founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future, talks about the importance of the Black vote in upcoming elections.   By Raynard Jackson NNPA President Donald Trump was voted into the White House in 2016 on the backs of the so-called blue-collar workers who live in…

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By Jeffrey W. Hicks TriceEdneyWire.com We have come a long way toward building Black homeownership since the Fair Housing Act was signed into federal law 50 years ago. In commemorating that milestone, we recognize and emphasize that with fewer than half of Black Americans owning their homes, we still have a long way to go…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A crowd participating at “Never Again” rally to protest and change gun laws after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  (Photo: (KMH Photovideo / Shutterstock)   On Saturday, March 24, young people will take to the streets around the world to protest gun violence and to demand common sense gun control instead of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Tallahassee, Florida–Huge crowd participated at “Never Again” rally to protest and change gun laws after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Feb. 2018.     By Julianne Malveaux TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM One cannot help but be riveted by the outstanding response from the young survivors of the carnage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas…

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