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Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Darryl Lorenzo Wellington is a poet and critic living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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In stories and statistics, Alston’s report presents a shocking portrait of mass unemployment, child poverty and homelessness in America—at this time when Republicans are determined to cut social services for those who need them most. more

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For those on Medicaid, the thought of going back to the days of having no health insurance is unimaginable. But that's what TrumpCare has in store for more than 22 million Americans. more

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I have spent much of my life as an uninsured man, and the thought of going back is unimaginable. more

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The American Health Care Act helps the millionaires while hurting millions. more

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Is it wrong of me to connect Roof’s hate crime to the kind of rhetoric we’ve heard from our President-elect? more

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Early in his life, before becoming committed to nonviolence, King himself owned a weapon. more

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Photo by eyeliam Last week, I returned to Charleston, S.C., where President Obama gave his beautiful eulogy for slain state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. To me, the tragedy wasn’t just another news story. I was raised in nearby Savannah and lived in... more

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“Selma” provides an opportunity to look back. But this Martin Luther King Jr. Day in particular, we also have to look at current injustice. more

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The Oscars did the right thing by bestowing the honor of best picture to "12 Years a Slave." The movie earned it. more

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Pope Francis has done us all a favor, whether we're Catholic or not. In this Christmas season, he has shown the way to a more humane society. more

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More than 3 million students suffer from bullying each year. And a whopping 160,000 students a day miss school because of the fear of bullying, according to the American School Health Association. more

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"The Butler," starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, is a walk through America's late 20th century civil rights history and the feelings of invisibility and indignation that have shaped how black Americans see their lives.The story is narrat... more

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On the issue of same sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court should follow the lead of the NAACP.No organization better understands the heinous burden of discriminatory legislation than the NAACP. It labored for decades to tear down obstacles to civ... more

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Baldwin expressed no doubt there someday would be a black American president, but that wasn't what worried him. He said, "What I am really curious about is just what kind of country he will be president of." more

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The Republican primaries may eventually crown a winner. But none of the candidates will have earned the mantle of a leader. more

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Yes, today, we have a president who is a black American, and de jure segregation is a thing of the past. But we don’t yet have a shared history of who we are as a nation. more

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With their actions on behalf of the foreclosed upon, the Occupy Wall Street movement is proving, once and for all, how different it is from the Tea Party movement. more

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News reporting has to be a public service. Just as no public deserves a state-controlled media in the hands of a totalitarian government, no public deserves media outlets that are the clandestine tools of a king-making billionaire. more

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The tea party crowd, Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and, most recently, Donald Trump have leveled some of the most ridiculous allegations against him. more

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