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By Kendall Alexander @SteezieKBreezie Mental health is something of paramount importance, especially in the Black community.  It has never been easy for us to discuss our issues in terms of mental health because of the stigmas we attempt to fight.  If you grew up in a African American household or identify as apart of the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (AP photo) By Derrick Johnson and Leon W. Russell Op-Ed  originally published on NBCBLK When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909, there were a number of undeniably stark realities facing Black Americans that the creation of the NAACP sought to overcome. We worked to create…

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ABOVE PHOTO: In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017, file photo, a group of students stand and turn their backs during a commencement exercise speech by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Instead of attending the pro-forma White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as every president has done in the last nearly four decades, President Donald Trump beat up on the press before a wildly enthusiastic and cheering crowd in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The crowd predictably takes the…

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By Julianne Malveaux After months of “repeal and replace” rhetoric, Congress has finally passed a pitiful little bill designed to eliminate the Affordable Care Act.  To watch Republicans gather in the Rose Garden to “celebrate” the narrow passage of their paltry bill, you would have thought that 45 [President Donald Trump]was about to sign ground-breaking…

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By Linda S. Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: Often in my daily travels, friends and colleagues seek me out to ask interesting questions. Many times they preface their remarks by saying, “This may sound silly to you.” Answer:  There are no ridiculous questions. Only after we begin to confront our fears and start discussing the very…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Tom Janssen, The Netherlands By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Fifty-nine cruise missiles. When Donald Trump ordered the attack on Syria, he made an impetuous decision, turning his previous commitment to stay out of the Syrian civil war and focus on ISIS on its head. He ordered the attack on a sovereign nation without seeking…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Ousted and disgraced Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly’s Blatant anti-black cracks, digs, slurs and putdowns didn’t start last year, two years ago, or even a decade ago. They started almost from the day that he took the helm of the “Factor” the last…

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By Linda Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: I’m advocating for a subtle change in ethnic labeling that I believe could make a huge psychological difference in diffusing many cultural problems. Let’s put the word American first in ethnic labeling; i.e., American-African, American-Mexican, American-Vietnamese, etc. Being “American” first signifies an equal membership in the greater group. Being…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  People with Asian community organizations from Chicago hold signs to protest after Sunday’s confrontation where David Dao, 69, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was removed from a United Airlines airplane by Chicago airport police at O’Hare International Airport, during rally near United’s counter at the airport’s Terminal 1 in Chicago on Tuesday, April 11, 2017….

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