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Black America and the passing of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro has a special significance for countless Black Americans. When he took up residence in the Hotel Theresa in New York’s Harlem, later meeting with Malcolm X, the Cuban…
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Claver-Carone: A hollow move simply to appease?
Earlier this week Mauricio Claver-Carone was tabbed by the Donald Trump team to sit at the table of the president-elect’s group of deciders. Yet, the truth is that Claver-Carone has NOT…
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Prejudice empowered: The nightmare begins
It didn’t take long for the hate and division incited and enabled by Donald Trump’s campaign to rear its ugly head. In the wake of the Republican candidate’s victory, numerous…
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new neo-fascist era is here.
The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang. Donald Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We…
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Cuban-Americans and the Trump administration
One of the questions posed by Donald Trump's victory is whether or not he'll continue the policy adopted by Obama toward Cuba, and some have already reprised the quaint idea that that…
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Why we need a new Democratic Party
The old Democratic Party has become a giant fundraising machine, too often reflecting the goals and values of the moneyed interests. It has been taken over by Washington-based…
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Marijuana legalization in states helps reform opportunities in the Americas
Donald Trump’s victory was not the only outcome of November 8 that will reverberate around the globe. On the same day, four states—California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada—approved…
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Trump’s win: The reasons for unreason
Trump’s ascent are not explained by his mental health, but in the fertile soil in which the seeds of his simplistic, triumphalist ideology were planted. His win can also be attributed…
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Farewell, America
America died on Nov. 8, 2016, not with a bang or a whimper, but at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion,…
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What? Trump?!!
Was it an enraged white America reacting to eight years of a black president? Is racism still that prevalent in this country? Americans want change in their politics and they are not…
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