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How will we transform US society in all the ways that are needed?
One absolutely essential element, one we do not have right now, is a...
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a resolution introduced by...
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This Thursday night, ABC, CBS, and NBC will air the first public January 6th Committee hearing on the insurrection and its origins. It looks to be the most significant set...
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The anxiously anticipated Interim Report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African...
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On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will hold a hearing to examine the...
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America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are before us every day. The world is also awash with weapons, as reported by the Stockholm Peace Research...
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Fifty-five years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”...
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The Black Star News is reaching out to our readers for their answers, and comments, to this currently crucial question: what are we to do to stop the epidemic of...
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AMHERST, Mass. – Amid an unprecedented democratic decline in the U.S., a new report by Beyond Conflict, co-authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst social...
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And another sex scandal pops into the news. This time it’s the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, cringing in shame upon...
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As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Buffalo, and other mass shootings, we’re having agonized conversations. It seems inconceivable that “the other side” could look at...
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In late April, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tulchin Research conducted a poll of 1,500 Americans to examine the extent to which the extremist beliefs and...
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WASHINGTON – In an op-ed published in The Bay State Banner, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Reverend Dieufort Fleurissaint, chair of Haitian Americans...
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"We must elect people who are committed to moving this nation toward a more perfect union," I wrote last week. "Whether we are protecting Black lives or the lives of...
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Los Angeles - The organizers for the People's Summit For Democracy released the following press release saying that the Los Angeles Police Department has refused to grant...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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