Discarding his timidity, Obama displays authentic black leadership in funeral oration in Charleston, confronting gun violence, hate, America’s racial divide….
You can watch the speech here
--PBC salute to Bree Newsome, the Charlotte woman who scaled the capitol flagpole in South Carolina and took down Confederate flag on Saturday
--Supreme Court clears its decks, with a good ruling on gerrymandering, and two stinkers on EPA regulation of coal and lethal injections
--knuckle-dragging bible-thumping GOP candidates blather about defying, or defunding Supreme Court over marriage equality ruling
--in our new, in-depth interview, environmental leader Randy Hayes of Foundation Earth talks about the Pope, Obama and upcoming G20 summit in Turkey
--Greek financial crisis on the brink: Tsipras shuts banks, calls for instant referendum as Euro banksters demand pounds of flesh
--Israeli Navy, once again, illegally interdicts Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters, Vatican signs treaty with State of Palestine
--Puerto Rico is our own mini-Greece: the island commonwealth is insolvent, but not permitted to file bankruptcy
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