October 5, 2006 - Issue 200
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BC Celebrates Issue 200 as
16 Dedicated African American Activists
Join The New BC Editorial Board
by BC Publisher Peter Gamble
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There are a couple big news items at BlackCommentator.com this week. The publication of issue #200 is cause enough for celebration. However, add to that achievement the creation of a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board, and the news becomes spectacular.
With the creation of the BC Editorial Board, BC is taking a new, more inclusive and broader direction.
Comprising the BC Editorial Board are African Americans who are dedicated activists, thinkers and writers. Board members will be an integral part of the development of a new, more inclusive and more broadly directed BlackCommentator.com. In return, membership on the BC Editorial Board offers these talented African American Activists an opportunity for their articulate and profound voices to reach an expanded audience.
BC’s new direction will focus more attention on issues affecting African American women, working people and the African World, while continuing the overall focus on the struggle for economic and social justice and peace.
Editorial board members will be submitting writings of their own and other’s, and will provide editorial input. Board members also expect to be asked for their opinions about particular issues, topics and articles that should be or are being considered for inclusion in BC.
In short, the content of BC is now firmly in the hands of the new BC Editorial Board, and includes as its initial 16 members (in alphabetical order by last name):
Carl Bloice - A writer in San Francisco, who works for a healthcare union and is a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Julian Bond - Board Chairman, NAACP
Rose Brewer, PhD - Professor of African American/African Studies, University of Minnesota and a leader of the Black Radical Congress
Imani Countess - National Coordinator, Africa Program, American Friends Service Committee
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Former president of TransAfrica Forum, who is now a Visiting Professor in Political Science at Brooklyn College-CUNY
James Jennings, PhD - Professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University
Badili Jones - A writer and organizer who works among African-American LGBTQ persons on the grassroots level and is also a rank and file member of SEIU, Jobs with Justice, and Pride at Work
Julianne Malveaux, PhD - Economist, author, and national commentator, President of The FuturePAC, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of the Economic Policy Institute
Leith Mullings, PhD - Presidential professor of anthropology and Director of the program in medical anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Steven Pitts, PhD - Labor Policy Specialist at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
Maya Rockeymoore, PhD - Policy analyst, researcher, and advocate, founder, President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions (GPS) in Washington, D.C. and member of the TransAfrica Forum Board of Directors
Jamala Rogers - Leader of the Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis and the Black Radical Congress National Organizer
William L. (Bill) Strickland - Professor in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chuck Turner - Boston City Council member and founder of the Fund the Dream campaign. He is the Chair of the Council’s Human Rights Committee, and Vice Chair of the Hunger and Homelessness Committee
Emira Woods - Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies (Woods is from Liberia and brings an international viewpoint)
Jeanne Woods, JD - Visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Law from the College of Law at Loyola University, New Orleans
We hope you, as a BC reader, join us in looking forward to the future with unbridled enthusiasm, and to borrow from Malcolm X, impatience, anger and militancy.
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