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The dozens of protestors in Philadelphia who gathered recently outside the hearing held by a Republican dominated investigative committee of the Pennsylvania State House loudly chanted “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, This Political Circus Got To Go!” That protest included circus performers to dramatize protestors’ contention that the committee’s hearing was a ‘clown show’ intended to …
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Russia’s politically motivated persecution of American basketball superstar Brittany Griner highlights multiple hypocrisies and myths that swirl around marijuana. Russian authorities arrested Griner at a Moscow airport in mid-February 2022. Authorities charged her with smuggling hash oil, a liquid processed from the marijuana (cannabis) plant. Griner has distinguished herself with two Olympic gold medals and …
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What race-based assault is common to legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., recently deceased Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier and Critical Race Theory (CRT) – the analytical framework some academicians use to dissect institutional racism in America? Intense, irrational ire mainly from white conservatives bent on blocking both racial progress and …
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Jesenia Calderon knew foul practices polluted Philadelphia’s justice system years before Philly’s District Attorneys Office released an unusual report in June 2021 that decried injustices arising from official misconduct by prosecutors and police. The insights into injustice held by Calderon, a nurse and military veteran, come from decades of seeing her father victimized by prosecutors, …
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These Black heroes of 9/11 valiantly battled terrorism. But the sacrifices of these Black heroes will receive no recognition during the commemorations around America for the 20th Anniversary of what is considered the most tragic terrorist attack ever conducted on American soil. These heroes, William Parker and his colleagues, confronted terrorists on 9/11 in defense …
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Smoke from the firestorm that erupted after Bill Cosby’s release from prison obscures a unique twist in the traditional roil around rape, race and racism. A jury convicted Cosby in 2018 for a 2004 incident where the Black celebrity drugged and sexually molested a white woman inside his mansion located in a suburb of Philadelphia, …
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She’s at it again! Amy Cooper – the now infamous ‘Central Park Karen’ – is raging again. This time Cooper is raging in a lawsuit against her former employer who fired Cooper after that May 25, 2020 incident in New York City’s Central Park. An enraged Cooper called police and falsely accused a Black man …
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Buried inside an embarrassing scandal now broiling Philadelphia, Pa are legacies from America’s despicable era of lynching. The spark for the scandal in Philadelphia is revelations about morbid mistreatment of human remains of Black victims from the horrific 1985 police bombing and burning in Philadelphia of the back-to-nature group MOVE. During the lynching era, many …
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The subject of entrenched racism and its poisonous persistence sparked a bunch of BS from T.S. on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean recently. This BS [bullshit] is vehement declarations that institutional racism no longer exists in either America or England. This BS asserts institutional racism miraculously disappeared in recent months from those two nations, …
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A poignant plea from a group of pupils at a Philadelphia charter school sent recently to Philadelphia’s top prosecutor — that sought release of an inmate widely considered as falsely incarcerated — prompted a barrage of vile threats against those students and one of their teachers from opponents of that inmate. Ironically, that menacing triggered …
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