Op-Ed
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Aug- 2019 -8 August
COMMENTARY: Who Cares About Fair Elections?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — … people are organizing and attempting to overcome interference by mobilizing the Democratic base of voters. Barbara Arnwine, who founded and leads the Transformative Justice Coalition (www.tjcoalition.org)…
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2 August
OP-ED: “It City” Still Has a Lot of Hate to Cleanse
THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — For over 25 years the Tennessee Tribune has proudly chronicled the good things happening in North Nashville and across our city, region and state. Over that time…
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1 August
OP-ED: Reform Alternative Business Lending Practices to Protect Small-Business Owners
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Lenders have been requiring their small business borrowers, as a condition of receiving any short-term loans from them, to sign confessions of judgement that waive borrowers’ legal…
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Jul- 2019 -31 July
COMMENTARY: There is Not a Racist Bone in My Body
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Send her back is a turning point, “With Trump’s naked hatred and cruelty captured on live television, and along with it, so was the seething anger of…
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31 July
COMMENTARY: Media Responsibility and Accountability in the Era of #MeToo
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The statistics confirm that sexual harassment is alive and well across all industries and women of color working low-wage jobs are facing the brunt of this abuse,”…
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4 July
OP-ED: Women’s Suffrage Forged by Founding Sisters: Happy Birthday to Ida B.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ida B. revered the Black press as an organizing tool. Though her newspaper The Memphis Free Speech was destroyed by racist mobs, she was never silenced. During…
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