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Below are the thoughts of six members of the BC Editorial board immediately following the 2010 State of the Union address by President Barack Obama in conversation with BC Publisher, Peter Gamble.
Julianne Malveaux
Julianne Malveaux, PhD - President of Bennett College for Women. She is an economist, author, and national commentator. Click here to contact Dr. Malveaux.
Ron Walters
Ron Walters, PhD - Dr. Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar, Director of the African American Leadership Center and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park.� His latest book is: The Price of Racial Reconciliation (The Politics of Race and Ethnicity) (University of Michigan Press). Click here to contact Dr. Walters
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Servers BlackCommentator.com as Executive Editor. He is also, a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and the co-author of Solidarity Divided:The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press). Click here to contact Mr. Fletcher.
Ethel Long-Scott
Ethel Long-Scott - Executive Director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project, (WEAP). She is known nationally and internationally for devoting her life to the education and leadership of people at the losing end of society, especially women of color. She is dedicated to economic security and justice and believes that the US is engaged in a relentless war against workers and the poor. Click here to contact Ms. Long-Scott.
Steven Pitts
Steven Pitts, PhD - Labor Policy Specialist at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. Click here to contact Dr. Pitts.
Larry Pinkney
Larry Pinkney - a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
 
 

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Issue 360
January 28, 2010
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