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Full employment is needed fast
Category: Opinion Written by Gary L. Flowers
(NNPA)—While most of the media nation was transfixed by a diversionary-racist smear campaign against United States Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod on the issue of perceived racial animus—an issue deserving full attention on another day—the president signed legislation to extend unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed. By the president’s signature, the jobless were given a little relief to their lack of financial resources in a critically depressing economic period many refer to as the Great Recession.
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Equal pay for women
Category: Opinion Written by Judge Greg Mathis
The Obama administration recently announced its support of the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation that would make it easier for women who make less than their male co-workers to sue employers on basis of pay discrimination. The bill sat around in Congress for years and, in 2007, then- President Bush threatened to veto it. The House of Representatives gave the bill the green light in 2009; now it’s up to the Senate to do the same and end gender- based pay disparities as we know them.
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Editorial...Justice Dept. decision is without racial bias
Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
A former Justice Department lawyer has alleged that the department reduced the scope of a voter-intimidation case involving New Black Panther Party members in Philadelphia last year because his former colleagues do not want to protect White people’s civil rights.
“We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens,” said J. Christian Adams of the decision to scale down the case, which he had helped to develop.
“We abetted wrongdoing and abandoned law-abiding citizens,” said J. Christian Adams of the decision to scale down the case, which he had helped to develop.
Adams, who recently resigned from the Justice Department’s civil right division, has been critical of the department’s handling of the case.
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The NAACP’s appalling attack—and retraction—on Shirley Sherrod
Category: Opinion Written by George E. Curry
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(NNPA)—After hearing Minister Louis Farrakhan roundly denounced by Black and Jewish leaders in 1984, purportedly for describing Judaism as a “gutter religion,” I called Farrakhan before writing a story for the Chicago Tribune. Farrakhan denied he had ever described Judaism as a gutter religion and offered up his life to anyone who could prove he had made such a comment.
He provided me with an audio tape of the speech in question. Listening very closely, I realized that the Nation of Islam leader had called Judaism a “dirty religion,” not a gutter religion as had been widely reported. Of course, that didn’t make Jews feel any better.
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Will M/W/DBEs share in K. Leroy Irvis building?
Category: Opinion Written by Louis 'Hop' Kendrick
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Allegheny County Community College is preparing to break ground on a $22 million building that will be named after K. Leroy Irvis, an elected official who demonstrated a deep abiding concern about education, particular that of community colleges. The state-of-the-art building will be officially named the K. Leroy Irvis Science & Technology Center.
Mr. Irvis was also deservedly known as the Lion of Pennsylvania and knowing him as well as I did it would be a grave injustice if M/W/DBEs were denied their fair share of contracts.
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