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This metaphorical title clearly symbolizes our Founding Fathers greatest fears for the viability of America’s democracy as a fledging “republic.” They did everything conceivable to protect and defend democracy. Yet knowing that democracy as a system of governing by men and women is always threaten when integrity and humanity are conceded to a demagogue.
The continued value of Carter G. Woodson’s sociological tour de force “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” first published in 1933, exists because every aspect of the book reveals truth that Black people are confronted in 2026 with the same Centuries-old problem. Once basic education became available for so-called “freed” Black people, a system of exclusion accompanied total immersion in European dominance learning. Blacks learned nothing of Africa or of a place of dignity for themselves in America.
I believe this powerful report was accurate, timely and appropriately titled. Africans in America, Black people are caught up in one of the most dangerous periods in the history of the USA; a moment where, under the umbrella of the MAGA movement, the foundational documents that tenuously bind this imperfect union together are under vicious assault by racist, white supremacist and white nationalist forces.
America’s freight rail network is more than an economic engine. It is a force that shapes daily life in the cities across America where people live, work, raise their families and breathe the air.
America was born 250 years ago in a rebellion against such a brutish king. American patriots fought and died in a revolution promising their descendants that never again would similar abuse by government agents be tolerated. In America, they pledged, on their lives and sacred honor, “Law would be King.”
The reason for the spotty record of the world organization is that many organs of the United Nations are weak and, therefore, unable to cope adequately with the enormous job that lies before the international organization and the world. The solution is to transform these UN organs by drawing upon Article 109 of the UN Charter, which lays out the method for making changes in the UN system.
These lyrics should take some of us back when the song, “For the love of money” was a hit record. We can only speculate how this song came to be. Was money flowing freely into the economy during this time?
I learned to respect Bitcoin not from traders or tech executives. I learned from dissidents and from people who lived through economic collapse. For them, Bitcoin was not about getting rich. It was about staying free.
“As these proposals move forward, economic empowerment advocates warn that policies intended to lower housing costs may instead reduce housing availability if their broader impacts are not carefully considered.”