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Tax policies have disparate racial impact

Posted onApril 1, 2023April 1, 2023AuthorRonda Lee

Tax breaks and tax enforcement are not agnostic when it comes to race, according to a pair of recent studies. White taxpayers disproportionately benefit from five studied tax breaks versus Black Americans, in many cases when adjusting for income, according to a Treasury study from the Read More …

CategoriesFeature, Personal Finance, Race, Taxes

Juneteenth: Neo-slavery & Jim Crow

Posted onJune 19, 2022July 3, 2022AuthorRonda Lee

Juneteenth is a somber reminder that the institutions and systems that kept free Black citizens enslaved more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation – allowing Texas plantation owners to delay freedom so freed slaves could bring in the harvest – still exist today. In Read More …

CategoriesRace

Anti-Racist: What Would Peter Norman Do

Posted onJuly 27, 2020July 3, 2022AuthorRonda Lee

In light of the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, many are questioning their prejudice, bias, and role in perpetuating systemic racism. It is not enough to not be a racist, you must strive to be Read More …

CategoriesPolitics, Politics, Race, Sports

History Lessons: 1918, 1944, 1960

Posted onJuly 26, 2020July 3, 2022AuthorRonda Lee

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. “What history teaches is that men have never learned anything from it.” — Hegel Movies and television programs in the 1960s had us thinking that by the year Read More …

CategoriesPolitics, Politics, Race

The Flag & America’s Desecration of Black Veterans

Posted onJune 9, 2020March 5, 2023AuthorRonda Lee

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – US Declaration of Independence Unfortunately, America does not seem Read More …

CategoriesMilitary, Politics, Politics, Race

Understanding Over-Policing & Defunding the Police

Posted onJune 7, 2020March 5, 2023AuthorRonda Lee

During the protests, people are talking about systemic racism, over-policing, school-to-prison pipeline, police brutality and defunding the police. You need to understand where this is coming from. This is but a primer to understand a small portion of the issues leading to cries for defunding Read More …

CategoriesPolitics, Race

Punishing Impunity and Judging Discretion: Police Brutality

Posted onJune 2, 2020March 5, 2023AuthorMustapha Ndanusa, Esq.

“Burn this B*tch Down,” Louis Head shouted in anger after learning of St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert (Bob) McCulloch’s announcement that the Ferguson grand jury returned a no true bill against Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown. The protests began and so Read More …

CategoriesPolitics, Politics, Race

George Floyd, Protests & America

Posted onMay 31, 2020March 5, 2023AuthorRonda Lee

I wanted to be silent because anger and rage is high. I am fed up and tired of being sick and tired of America’s racism, prejudice, faux political correctness, liberal whites who only give lip service to the black community but want our votes and Read More …

CategoriesRace

White Feminists & LGBTQ Community: It’s Time to Pull Up

Posted onMarch 1, 2020March 8, 2023AuthorRonda Lee

March is Women’s History Month. I am always conflicted about it. It follows Black History Month and there’s a natural angst because I rarely see feminists highlight the contributions of women of color. Every election cycle there is an interesting spectacle of candidates who claim Read More …

CategoriesFeature, LGBTQ, Race, Women

America: Racism & White Privilege

Posted onJuly 28, 2018August 30, 2018AuthorRonda Lee1 Comment

Photo Credit: Ruben Marquez aka broobs.psd After my last article, American Fascism: Trumpism, I received some not so nice comments on my social media. I was bit surprised because in the past trolls only came after me when I wrote about racism or feminism. We Read More …

CategoriesPolitics, Politics, Race, Women, Women

Rise of the Modern Southern Black Belle

Posted onMarch 1, 2018April 29, 2020AuthorRonda Lee1 Comment

2019 Update: In the 2018 election, women, especially women of color, showed up and showed out! The strength and resilience of black, Latinx, and Native women will be the change we need to make America a government for the people and by the people. The Read More …

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Black History: Reclaiming Sisterhood

Posted onFebruary 6, 2018March 18, 2020AuthorRonda Lee

For Black History Month, inspired by the Honorable Maxine Waters’ “reclaiming my time,” I want to change the narrative. I am tired of the media and television images portraying black women as ratchet thots that tear down one another. If we are not mammies or Read More …

CategoriesRace, Relationships, Women, Women

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