Edward Rhymes

Edward Rhymes is a Mint Press columnist and author of "When Racism Is Law & Prejudice Is Policy: Prejudicial and Discriminatory Laws, Decisions and Policies in U.S. History." Rhymes is an authority in critical race theory and black studies, and is featured in several textbooks. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology. Visit his website, www.rhymesworld.com, or contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @drRhymes .

Remember The Ladies: The Struggle For Women’s Rights Post-Arab Spring

On March 31, 1776, future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was soon to be appointed a member of the committee drafting the Declaration of Independence: “… In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I would desire you would Remember […]

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Protesters chant slogans at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

On March 31, 1776, future First Lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was soon to be appointed a member of the committee drafting the Declaration of Independence: “... In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I would desire you would Remember the Ladies. ... Do not put such unlimited power

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The Pot Calling The Kettle Dependent: The Government’s Role In The Wealth Of The Wealthy

It’s almost like some Hank Williams Jr.-driven refrain from the Monday Football intro … “Are you ready for some class warfare?” Just like that, Mitt Romney’s comments about the government dependent 47 percent of this country that will vote for President Obama opens the door (once again) to a real debate and discussion about wealth, income […]

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In this Sept. 6, 2011, file photo Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney talks about his plan for creating jobs and improving the economy at McCandless International Trucks in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

It’s almost like some Hank Williams Jr.-driven refrain from the Monday Football intro … “Are you ready for some class warfare?” Just like that, Mitt Romney’s comments about the government dependent 47 percent of this country that will vote for President Obama opens the door (once again) to a real debate and discussion about wealth, income

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How Liberals And Progressives Have Given A Pass To Failed And Flawed Obama-Duncan Educational Policy

In 2007, then-candidate Barack Obama said that if workers were denied the right to collectively bargain that he, as president of the United States of America, would get a pair of comfortable shoes and walk the picket lines with them. Wisconsin, Ohio and Chicago are still waiting for that presidential stroll for labor. What a […]

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In this photo taken May 9, 2012, students work in a classroom. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner).

In 2007, then-candidate Barack Obama said that if workers were denied the right to collectively bargain that he, as president of the United States of America, would get a pair of comfortable shoes and walk the picket lines with them. Wisconsin, Ohio and Chicago are still waiting for that presidential stroll for labor. What a difference five years

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The Not So Sweet Smell of Success

Throughout the Republican and Democratic conventions, the theme of success was touched upon. Republicans went to great lengths to paint President Obama as someone who was denigrating “success” and the Democrats countered by simply reassuring the American public, contrary to what Republicans are saying, they admired success as well. A childish back-and-forth, to say the […]

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes comments on the killing of U.S. embassy officials in Benghazi, Libya, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Throughout the Republican and Democratic conventions, the theme of success was touched upon. Republicans went to great lengths to paint President Obama as someone who was denigrating “success” and the Democrats countered by simply reassuring the American public, contrary to what Republicans are saying, they admired success as well. A childish

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The Revulsion Will Not Be Televised: The Poverty Of Silence – The Silence About Poverty

I was all set to talk about how both parties’ conventions were found wanting when speaking of the issues that directly impact the poor; ready to take the Republicans and Democrats to task for this egregious negligence, and then … a funny thing happened on the way to the keyboard. At the DNC convention, several […]

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Homeless people sleep on pews at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

I was all set to talk about how both parties’ conventions were found wanting when speaking of the issues that directly impact the poor; ready to take the Republicans and Democrats to task for this egregious negligence, and then … a funny thing happened on the way to the keyboard. At the DNC convention, several individuals, including former

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Chaney, Schwerner And Goodman Bodies Lie Moldering In The Grave

Forty-eight years ago, on June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers — a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 — were murdered near Philadelphia, in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had […]

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In this June 19, 2012 file photo, Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann holds a postcard to help identify voters in need of a free state government issued card that will be issued through his office at no charge, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Forty-eight years ago, on June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers — a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 — were murdered near Philadelphia, in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom

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The Misdirections And Misconceptions About Welfare

It’s an election year and although in the last couple of presidential elections we seem to have had a reprieve from the rather shameful practice of demonizing the poor and trafficking in racializing welfare, here we are again. There have been claims that Mitt Romney has made in campaign ads (and on the campaign trail […]

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Shannon Stanfield poses with her daughter Maddy, left, and her son John at her home in Clinton, N.Y., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. Stanfield is a former welfare recipient. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

It’s an election year and although in the last couple of presidential elections we seem to have had a reprieve from the rather shameful practice of demonizing the poor and trafficking in racializing welfare, here we are again. There have been claims that Mitt Romney has made in campaign ads (and on the campaign trail as well) about President

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