Albert Bender
LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender
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Supreme Court’s earthshaking decision: Eastern Oklahoma is still Indian Country
July 13, 2020The ruling will have effects far beyond the criminal justice system, with possible legal implications for taxation, business and property law, and more.
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July 4th: Whose Independence Day is it?
July 7, 2020Who really gained their independence on July 4, 1776?
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Trump has turned the White House into the Madhouse
June 30, 2020MLK said some will continue to exist in a state of “conscientious stupidity” or “sincere ignorance.” To which category does Trump belong?
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Teen students lead Nashville’s largest ever protest against racist police violence
June 8, 2020Organized by five teens: Nya Collins, Jade Fuller, Kennedy Green, Zee Thomas, and Emma Rose Smith. All 14 to 16, four African American and one white, and all female.
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Protests against George Floyd’s murder roil Middle Tennessee
June 3, 2020Several thousand protesters—Black, white, Red, Brown—gathered in Nashville’s Legislative Plaza for the “I Will Breathe Rally."
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Will the Supreme Court return eastern Oklahoma to the Five Tribes?
May 8, 2020McGirt v. Oklahoma sits at the top of the Supreme Court docket. It's the Indian law case that will decide whether eastern Oklahoma will be returned to reservation status.
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Will the pandemic hasten the demise of capitalism?
May 4, 2020There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.
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American hunger: Many are starving as food banks buckle, exposing capitalist decay
April 20, 2020What happens when the food banks have no more food?
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