The Fourteenth Amendment (Section 1): "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.
"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any persons within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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MCJ Editorial
Milwaukee should follow Philadelphia’s lead in dealing with violence in the streets
Last Sunday, thousands of Black men in Philadelphia came together in solidarity to volunteer their time to participate in street patrols to help reduce violence in that crime-plagued city. Read more
No Room for Domestic Violence
by D.K. Walker--Mybrotha.COM Contributor
I can honestly say that in all of my past relationships--I never hit a woman. Not that I should wear it as a badge of honor, but I’ve never even thought about attempting it... Read more
Making Sense Out of Jena Nonsense
by George E. Curry--NNPA Columnist
One would think they would have learned their lesson in Jena, Louisiana by now--but they haven’t. Of the teens making up the Jena 6, five didn’t have a criminal record. So authorities decided to first prosecute Mychal Bell, the one who did have a record. Read more
Hate Crimes--Against each other
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
The much publicized crackdown on a Latino gang that unleashed a three year campaign to drive Black Americans out of a mixed neighborhood in South Los Angeles ripped open a dirty and very painful secret. Read more
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