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Jay-Z, Team ROC demand DOJ investigate racism, corruption in Kansas Police Department

Celebrities, Entertainment, National, News, NNPA, Stacy Brown / By aframnews

Hip-hop pioneer Jay-Z and Team ROC, the social justice side of his entertainment company, have demanded the U.S. Department of Justice probe the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for systemic misconduct. Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, joined in writing an open letter to the Justice Department stating that there’s no excuse to justify the …

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The beloved lies about America

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, Op-Ed, Opinion / By aframnews

White supremacists love their narratives of America. They spoon feed it to their children and force feed it to people of color. When Francis Scott Key penned the lyrics for “The Star-Spangled Banner” in1814, stating that America was the “land of the free and home of the brave,” he crafted a stirring image of goodness …

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The System

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, Opinion, Politics / By aframnews

Question: is something better than nothing? Compared to what is the question of questions? The system works for the system, and the system is influenced by White Privilege on both sides of the isle. The only way the federal government can effectively work for all Americans is that all Americans are included regardless of race, …

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It’s too early to unconditionally forgive

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, Featured, Opinion / By aframnews

Did you pay attention to the supremacy sneer of the face of Derrick Chauvin as he suffocated the life out of George Floyd? It was a domination mug shot. It was a mug shot of resident evil where evil powers and principalities dwelled, rather a body that had been possessed and evil powers found a …

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“The Firsts……” Don’t be bamboozled by “their” title

Culture, Featured, National, News, Opinion / By aframnews

By: Roy Douglas Malonson “The first Black…” This is a phrase many of us are used to as our never-ending fight for equity ensues. From the first Black woman in space to the first Black President of the United States, being the first is a coveted position and highly praised within our communities. But it’s …

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What Is Racial Identity?

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, News, Op-Ed, Opinion / By aframnews

Is racial identity simply about skin-tone? Individuals who profess Christianity ought to know that it has nothing to do with their skin-tone, but everything to do with their heart and mind-set. However, on Sunday mornings at the eleven o’clock worship hour is the most segregated hour in American society. The question is why is this …

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Fight the Power

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, Featured, Op-Ed, Opinion / By aframnews

Last week, I was shopping for essentials at the local grocery store and the clerk gives me a receipt for $6.66. At jet-like speed, I told her to void this transaction as I was only mildly superstitious. Biblically, threescore, three hundred and six represents the number of the beast in the last days. Some scholars …

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Can Democracy Survive in Autocracy?

Columnists, Commentary, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics / By aframnews

No doubt about it, the GOP has a White Privilege racially oriented exclusionary socio-political-economic agenda based primarily upon the tenets of autocracy, not democracy. The real question is: can God conscience/ oriented Americans save America from herself? Seemingly, we will not receive any help from Christian Right Evangelicals, the GOP, and White Nationalists groups, because: …

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Biden calls for end to systemic racism during CBCF conference

#NNPA BlackPress, National, News, NNPA, Politics, racism / By aframnews

President Joe Biden applauded the work of the Congressional Black Caucus and called for ending systemic racism during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards. The awards closed out the week-long Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. “I got here just a year after the Black Caucus started, 50 years, and the Black Caucus …

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Critical Race Theory and the Whitewashing of America

Columnists, Commentary, Editorial, National, Opinion / By aframnews

It was not enough that 47 states have introduced over 500 bills that will limit the time, places and rights to vote in America, as well as allow states to change voter results in those elections that Republican legislatures “feel” had fraud. Without the recent attack on “Critical Race Theory,” it would be possible, for …

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