Unreasonable use of force The Supreme Court has decided to limit damage suits against government officials in Hernandez vs. Mesa. However, the court’s more liberal justices dissented from the ruling. On the border between the United States and Mexico, controlled by...
Trump officials have dismissed suspicions that Russia has interfered in elections again The NABWMT, as a program by the Media Committee is monitoring Voter Suppression in the USA. They have information on their web pages to keep folks aware of the attack on our vote...
In what may be a harbinger for our trends in US Immigration policy, a UK plan denies entry to ‘low-skilled’ foreign workers. As a result, industries expect labor shortages. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wants immigrants to meet requirements for skills, qualifications...
Bernie Sanders could be the Democratic Nomination for President since he’s won more votes than any other candidate so far. However the Democratic Party establishment is hoping someone can stop Bernie Sanders from capturing the presidential nomination. Sanders may not...
In a recent Los Angels Times article Hailey Branson-Potts covered a recent town hall meeting in West Hollywood which covered the risks of using drugs to enhance sex The topic was a growing crisis, especially in the LGBTQ community, that health experts say is not...
Bayard Rustin, granted pardon Gay Civil Rights Leader Convicted in Pasadena by California Gov. Gavin Newsom for a miscarriage of justice in Pasadena in 1953 according to mynewsla.com. “Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday granted a posthumous pardon to black civil rights...
In the 2020 Presidential Election eyes been focussed on the early primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire. In Iowa, according to 538.com, the candidates are ranked as: Sanders 22.6%, Biden 22.3, Buttigieg, 17.1%, Warren, 14.0%. But perhaps more interesting, California...
The Real Economy “The economy added 6 million jobs, and the unemployment rate dropped to the lowest level in nearly 50 years”. But, The average monthly gain under Trump so far is 188,000 — compared with an average monthly gain of 217,000 during Obama’s second term....
HAPPY NEW YEAR A Decade Marked By Outrage Over Drug Prices Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who was called before Cummings’ committee in2016. After hiking the price of an old drug for parasitic infections to $750 a pill from $13.50,...
This video cast topic is an update on the roots of mass incarceration and the Broken Justice system. Slavery I know that our viewers understand that the first enslaved people were sold in Jamestown, in 1619. This started centuries of oppression of people at the...
The NABWMT Media committee wishes you and yours the best over the holidays and in 2020. We celebrate our commitment to bring our members, friends and allies the best media presence to enhance our statement of purpose. In our final video cast of the year we note our...
THE MERCURY NEWS A video allegedly posted by two UC Berkeley students in which one of them makes racist, homophobic and misogynist comments has sparked an outcry online and triggered swift condemnation from the university. The video shows a male student sitting on a...
It’s time to review the state of LGBT people around the world. I am prompted to do this when I read that the US ambassador to Zambia, Daniel Foote, has said he has been threatened over his comments on the sentencing of a gay couple causing a deepening a...
As a member of the National Association of Black and White Men Together, I am always checking in with Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg, an out gay man. So how is he doing? Let’s look at the latest poll. According to a Quinnipiac national poll former...
Unemployment is near a five-decade low, workforce participation is at the highest level in six years and Federal Reserve Chairman recently called the labor market “strong.” The Brookings Institute showed that “demographics of low-wage workers span race, gender and...
Democratic enthusiasm was on show November 5th., and the main issues were health care, education, gerrymandering, and guns. Democrat Andy Beshear appears to have beat Republican incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin in the Kentucky governor’s race. This is a state President...
Let’s talk about the three states that could determine the fate of the Democratic candidates for the presidency: Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire. A total of 16 electoral votes of the 538 available. It seems that is where all the action is. Each party in...
I was just reading the remarkable book by “One Person One Vote” by Carol Anderson, which I highly recommend. Also a great article by The Center for Progress listed ways voters were under attack. So, I decided to review the ways that voter suppression has...
The 2020 presidential campaign will include discussions of many issues, from health care to inequality to climate change to abortion. But it may be that there will be one issue that also will be important: corruption. This is unusual in a U.S. presidential election....
This is Ken Scott Baron from the National Association of Black and White Men Together with the run down on the 2020 Senate chamber where control of that chamber will be crucial to either party. This summer, Texas Democrats to pick their favorite from a list of...
This is Ken Scott Baron from the National Association of Black and White Men Together. At the NA we believe health care is a right, diversity is a strength, the economy should work for everyone, and facts and truth matter. So, in this podcast, once again, I will look...
Review of the schedule for the 2020 Presidential Election and it’s primaries.The top 3 Democratic candidates are outlined in terms of their performances in polls and the policies relevant to the NABWMT values.
Ken Scott Baron discusses the impeachment inquiry that the US House of Representatives has started on the conduct of the President. The allegations, if proved, could affect the NABWMT and it’s fight for voter sanctity.
Welcome to the revised podcast of the National Association of Black and White Men Together. This is Ken Scott Baron and after an hiatus of some months, this podcast is being upgraded to reflect the urgency of our times. We are in a very difficult and threatening times...
In the book “In the Closet of the Vatican” there is a treatise that suggests the more homophobic a priest is, the more likely he is to be a homosexual. Most of you think that this could also be a more general rule in society. As a gay man and an atheist, who believes...
As media co-chair I have the assignment to look at our online and print presence. I report to the members and allies of the National Association of Black and White Men Together on what is new in our newsletters and emails and Facebook. I have been amazed at the...
A recent book “In the Closet of the Vatican” there is a treatise that suggests the more homophobic a priest is, the more likely he is to be a homosexual. Most of you think that this could also be a more general rule in society. As a gay man and an atheist, who...
National Association of Black & White Men Together Rights Won by Unions Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 4:36 Subscribe Share Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify YouTube iTunes RSS Feed Share...
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The administration to move to define sex as determined by genitalia at birth. This could have a profound effect on the Transgender community. … New York...
IMPORTANT: 2019 Open Enrollment is only a few weeks away. If you don’t act by December 15, you can’t get 2019 coverage unless you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period. Plans sold during Open Enrollment start January 1, 2019. healthcare.gov
Says “only one other senator from either party over the last 25 years” has “a worse record on bipartisanship” than Ted Cruz. — Beto O’Rourke on Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 in a debate televised from San Antonio
The top 1 percent of America’s income earners have more than doubled their share of the nation’s income since the middle of the 20th century. American top 1 percent incomes peaked in the late 1920s, right before the onset of the Great Depression....
Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.” A Jefferson County clerk reportedly told staff members from the Leisure Center in Louisville...
Gabby Salinas, Democratic candidate for State Senate in Tennessee’s 31st District A mailer sent out by Salina’s opponent, Brian Kelsey, says “his family has called Shelby County home for seven generations. He’s from here. He’s one of us.” Source:...
Women still make just 78 cents for every dollar earned by men. Black women earn only 64 cents and Latinas only 54 cents for each dollar earned by white men.
Jim Renacci Voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which offers critical protections for LGBTQ people. Voted against protecting LGBTQ employees of federal contractors from discrimination. Recently appeared at event of anti-LGBTQ hate group. Source:...
Nowhere is the outcome of the mid terms more contested than in the American West. With 14 seats up for grabs and a surge in Latino and female votes. Arizona, Nevada and California are in play. Have you been contacted by our phone bank. No? Email us at...
“The International AIDS Society (IAS) plans to hold their global AIDS2020 conference in San Francisco – an expensive and privileged city located in a country that has become dangerously inhospitable to the very populations the IAS claims to serve”. This...
Sweetwater High School in National City, Calif., became a leader in the district when students voted to crown their first-ever transgender homecoming queen at last Friday’s football game, according to KGTV. The winner, Karl Cruz, 18, said she was overwhelmed and...
A crisis that has led federal immigration authorities to bus nearly 2,000 unaccompanied children (so far) from shelters around the country to a “tent city” in the desert town of Tornillo, Tex. Children stuck in immigration limbo for longer, have strained the system...
Western and European countries host the lion’s share of the world’s millionaires. More than 70 percent of the world’s millionaires reside in Europe or North America, with 43 percent of these millionaires calling the United State home. The only non-Western nations with...
“Kavanaugh accuser’s brother’s firm linked to Fusion GPS.” Ford’s brother, Ralph Blasey, worked for a law firm that worked with Fusion GPS nine years after he left the company. Fusion GPS’s work on the Russian dossier began more than a decade after Blasey...
1. The Economy 2 Immigration 3. Health 4. White voters went up as a share of the electorate 5. Trump expanded his coalition, driven by men. 6. Women turned out as a higher share, but not enough for Harris to win. 7 America is not for a woman to be president. 8. Ticket-splitting happened 9. […]
For the first time in modern history the majority of Americans now believes that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and that the Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy and the elites. Dems support in three of its crucial constituencies: minorities, the young and urban […]
The 2024 presidential election has folks talking about was which demographic groups had drifted from the Democratic Party. But, Black women rallied behind Kamala Harris. The Democratic nominee earned an overwhelming majority of their votes, including in swing states like Georgia, Nevada and Michigan, even as other groups shifted dramatically to the right compared to […]
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