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Black and White

December 19, 2015

ABOVE PHOTO:  Tanya Brown-Dickerson the mother of Brandon Tate-Brown who was shot by Philadelphia police as he ran during a traffic stop, speaks during a news conference Monday, June 15, 2015, outside of City Hall in Philadelphia. Brown-Dickerson is suing the city over the fatal shooting of her son last December. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) OIC…

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The San Bernardino massacre is domestic terrorism and should be called that

December 12, 2015

ABOVE CARTOON:  Manny Francisco, (Manila, The Phillippines) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson FBI official David Bowdich issued this statement immediately after the mass killing in San Bernardino by alleged shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, “It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism. The FBI defines terrorism very specifically, and that…

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The big reward in Trump’s perennial race-baiting

December 6, 2015

ABOVE CARTOON:  (Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson First, front running GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump cheers on a crowd at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama that physically and verbally assaults a black protestor. He then follows that up with a tweet on phony and doctored black crime figures that were so…

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The Black Male – a Targeted Group

November 27, 2015

By Rahim Islam In part one of “The Black Male: A Targeted Group”, I tried to establish a few critical points that will carry throughout, the most central being the effect of slavery on our lives in the present day.  Many of the conditions that exist today in our community have their roots in the…

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Why Carson’s tall tales about his past don’t hurt him

November 22, 2015

ABOVE CARTOON:  Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com By Earl Ofari Hutchinson GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson has been roundly skewered for, if you want to be charitable, embellishing his supposed hardscrabble youthful past, or less so, flat out lying about it. But that made absolutely no difference in some national polls that showed him topping long standing…

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Wanted: a “pop-off free” zone

November 22, 2015

By Denise Clay By any measurement you can use, Paris has had a tough year. From the murders at the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo by Muslim extremists tired of the magazine drawing pictures of the prophet Muhammad in sexualized positions to ISIS’s attacks on Parisians and tourists trying to have a fun night…

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Was it a case of racism or bad behavior at Spring Valley High?

November 14, 2015

ABOVE PHOTO:  This three image combo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student on Monday, Oct, 26, 2015, shows Senior Deputy Ben Fields trying to forcibly remove a student from her chair after she refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia S.C. The Justice Department opened a civil…

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Why the boycotts against Raven-Symoné and Don Lemon won’t work

November 5, 2015

ABOVE PHOTO:  Don Lemon and Raven-Symoné By Sergio Shadow and Act UPDATE 11/1/2015: On Saturday, an ABC spokesperson issued the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter, in response to the petition launched to remove Raven from “The View”: “We love Raven. She is confident, genuine and opinionated, all qualities that make her a great addition to…

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Benghazi hearings to sink Clinton have been a stupendous failure

October 30, 2015

ABOVE CARTOON:  (Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Former House speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy infuriated many of his GOP compatriots when he spoke the truth some weeks ago. His heretical truth is that the endless and relentless GOP contrived and manufactured Benghazi hearings were a blatant partisan political effort to torpedo Hillary…

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