The announcement to halt changes comes just as 20 states, including Minnesota, announced plans to file federal lawsuits against the Postal Service.
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Dismantling the U.S. Postal Service
The attack on USPS slows down more than ballots and election results.
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Forces of fascism are at our doorstep
How many more hints do we need that Trump may not step down if he loses in November?
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Bernie drops out, as Democrats pick pragmatism over consistency
In many ways, Bernie Sanders is the anti-Trump. And, in important ways, he ran his campaign as the anti-Biden. Sanders bowed out of the Democratic nomination race on April 8, repeating his runner-up status from four years earlier. His two runs at the White House have cemented his legacy as a consistent standard-bearer for progressive […]
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Trust level plunges after Kroll embraces Trump
A deeper look at the reaction of Minneapolis Police Lt. Bob Kroll’s embrace of President Trump.
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Trump’s attempt to erase Harriet Tubman
The attempted erasure of Tubman represents yet another move in the Trump playbook to disconnect racial reality from White fantasy.
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A Tale of Two Crises: Venezuela and Trump
With soaring disease, hunger, and mass emigration, Venezuela is experiencing its worst socio-economic crisis in history. As I predicted a month ago, conflict, violence, and death have further erupted along the Venezuela-Colombia border. No one knows the true casualty figures, although foreign news media are indicating it is, so far, a small number of persons […]
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Vote as if your life depends on it (because it does)
We’ve seen the collective power of Black women impact key races for office in special elections and primaries. Black women, according to a recent NAACP poll which analyzed the 61 most competitive midterm races, are tired of feeling disrespected by the Trump Administration and have made it a much higher priority to voice their displeasure at the polls.
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Controversy on the corner
“Whenever I put up signs about Melvin Carter, supporting Rena Moran or any Democrat, I don’t have a problem,” he continued. “The moment I put up a sign about Trump, the moment I put up a sign about Bush, put a sign up about ‘Black abortion is racism,’ or if I put up a sign about any Republican policy, then it’s a problem.”
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Does the GOP have a racist cut-off point?
President Donald Trump traffics in racial epithets. Since his first year in office, Trump’s displays of xenophobic, misogynistic, LGBTQ-phobic, and racist remarks (to name just a few from his laundry list of bigotries) appear to have no cutoff point. The Republican Party under Trump doesn’t seem to have one, either. In a recent YouGov poll, […]
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Right-wing firebrand wows American Experiment forum
She’d like to ignite an ‘ideological civil war in the Black community’ Candace Owens is an unapologetic Black conservative activist. She first rose to fame in 2017 as founder of the Red Pill Black website – her third website since leaving a private equity firm several years ago – and a YouTube channel that has […]
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Trump’s immigration enforcement is freezing out justice at courthouses
Since President Trump took office last year, immigration enforcement officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have dramatically expanded their presence at criminal and civil courts, including in family, landlord-tenant, and traffic courts across the United States. The presence of these officers and increased immigration arrests have created deep […]
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Trump’s bigotry targets powerful Black men
Throughout 2017, President Donald Trump has used Twitter as his bully pulpit “in personal, frightening ways,” attacking people of color, especially Black people, and others he perceives as against him.
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Trump administration scaling back civil rights protections
Decades of vigilant struggles, sacrifices and civil rights legislation enacted in the 1960s won federal promises to ensure that discrimination is illegal and would not be tolerated. Unfettered access to housing, voting rights, fair credit, public accommodations and more were marked and celebrated as hard-fought victories for Black Americans and other people of color. Now […]
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Under Trump, Black unemployment rises
During President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, the Black unemployment rate rose as the White unemployment rate fell, according to the latest jobs report. Key employment indicators show that Black workers lost ground in February. The unemployment rate for Black workers increased from 7.7 percent in January to 8.1 percent in February. The […]
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African Americans in Congress say Trump lying about wiretaps
White House Given Until Monday to Present Evidence WASHINGTON — An African-American member of the House Intelligence Committee said the White House’s failure this week to present her committee with evidence supporting President Trump’s claim former Presisent Barack Obama wiretapped him during the election confirms the prevailing view that his assertion is groundless. “I don’t […]
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Repeat offense: private prisons resurrection represents pay-to-play
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist, The House of the Dead, 1862 Twenty-four hours after the election of Donald Trump as this nation’s 45th president, the stock prices of privately run prisons in this country soared. And this reversal of fortune came […]
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Trump is one example of why we need Black History Month
February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African Americans. To commemorate its start President Trump hosted a “listening session” at the White House that left listeners scratching their heads wondering if he knew Frederick Douglass, a former slave, and abolitionist, died in 1895, and […]