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Have
You Heard the Good News?
Wesley E. Profit, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
McCain’s
Deregulated Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Remembering
John Coltrane
By Anyabwile Love, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Underground
Drug Dealing
By Candice S. Cason, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Obama:
An Historic Moment
By Carl Pinkston, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
The
Ethical Deficit in Journalism Today
By Don Rojas, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
IslamoFascism
or IslamoBritishism:
The British Origins of Modern Violent Islamism
By Nu'man Abd al-Wahid, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Race
in America: Katrina Aftermath Still Roils Gretna - Town Cut Off Escape
Route Out of New Orleans
By Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune Correspondent
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Organizing
the Community: Why the GOP TREMBLES at the very Idea - Student Writers’
Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
Bringing
Sexy Back: Barack Obama &
The "Triumph" of White-Collar Masculinity
By Jewel Woods, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
A
Trailer Park Tale: Three Years After Katrina
By Deepa Fernandes
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Anti-war
poem - Pray For Me, Father
By Sherwood Ross, BlackCommentator.com Guest Poet |
Hillary
Clinton, White Greed, White Rage, and White Female Racism - Student
Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
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Never
Mind the Hurricane - Beware of N.O. Police!
By Chris Stevenson, BlackCommentator Guest Commentator
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The
Politics Driving Mississippi’s ICE Raid
By David Bacon, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Remarks:
DNC Stop the War Protest - August 24, 2008
By Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate BlackCommentator.com Guest
Commentator |
Immigration
Inspires Hope, Fear and Debate
Among Convention Democrats
By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com
Guest Commentator
|
"So
to bind each son..."? Recalling the Talented Tenth & Re-thinking
‘Brokedown’ Black Gender and Sex Politics
By Dr. Jafari Sinclaire Allen, PhD
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
The
Right to Bear Safety
By The Reverend D. D. Prather, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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A
History of Centrism: A Cautionary Tale for Obama
By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Kenya
& Zimbabwe: Challenges and Opportunities in the Path to Democracy
By Briggs Bomba, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Let
Justice Roll Down Like Waters: Cynthia McKinney Carries the Cross
- Student Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
Obama’s
Plan for Iraq
By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
A
Few Thoughts on Patriotism
By Joe Navarro, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Ask
Not What...
By Cindy Sheehan, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Sketches
of Our Culture: Apathetic, Going on Pathetic
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
Africa
Advocacy & The Zimbabwe Factor
By Netfa Freeman, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Wrestling
with a Strange Reality: Barack Obama and the Impossibility of a Black
V.P.
Student Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
Where
Black Power Meets Progressive Politics
By Charles J. Evans |
Black
August 2008
By Kiilu Nyasha, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Black
Orchid in the White House Garden:
Assailing Michelle Obama
By T. S. Aschenge, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Continuing
Fight to Protect the Voting Rights Act
By Ryan P. Haygood, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Welcome
Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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Two
Fathers
By Nicholas Powers, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
If
The Opposite of Pro Is Con, Then The Opposite of Progress...
By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Obama
and McCain on Immigration: Life vs. Death
By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
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The
Liberation Schools, The Children’s House,
The Intercommunal Youth Institute And the Oakland Community School
By Ericka Huggins, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, The BlackCommentator
In Struggle Spotlight |
Juneteenth:
Free At Last?
By Ryan Paul Haygood, BlackCommentator.com
Guest Commentator
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Resident
Evil 5: A Travesty on All Counts
Student Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
Katrina
Meets Kucinich
By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator (Includes
full text and Video of all 35 George W. Bush articles of impeachment
presented by Congressperson Kucinich) |
Rebel
Without a Cause: The Movement to Reclaim and Radicalize Hip Hop
By MK Stallings and Montague Simmons |
Single-Payer
Healthcare: A BlackCommentator.com Series Part 39 - Healthcare Future
Shock: It’s Closer Than You Think
By Donna Smith, American SiCKO, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Responsibility
By Amy Branham, Gold Star Mom for Peace, BlackCommentator.com Guest
Commentator
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The
"Noose" Media: Strange Fruits, Bloody Leaves, and Swinging
Bodies - Student Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
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Whose
War? Is it Yours?
By Cindy Sheehan, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
We
Will Not Die! - Ushairi
By Anthony Gayle
BlackCommentator.com Guest Poet |
The
Tragic Legacy of the "Two Firsts": Why Hillary Won't Talk
About Gender the Way Barack Will Talk About Race
By Jewel Woods, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
May
25: Celebration of An Aspiration
By Netfa Freeman, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Idiot-in-Chief!!
- King-of-Fools?
By Playthell Benjamin, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
The
Hillary Myth and the Good Reverend Wright?
By John S. Phillips, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
A
Dissent: No More "Race" Talk
By Alex Walker, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Juan
Crow in Georgia
By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
Bubba
in the Backyard: The Politics of Race and Gender in Campaign 2008
By T. S. Aschenge, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator |
The
Virgin Maryam of Surah - Student Writers’ Corner
By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest
Commentator |
Sabotage,
Division, or Sedition
By Brother Bede, Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies, BlackCommentator.com
Guest Commentator |
Weapons
of Mass Distraction: Mind Control, Zombification and the Neutralizing
of Black People - Student Writers’ Corner
By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator |
“Is
That Your Child?”: Successful Strategies for Mothering Biracial
Children
By Marion Kilson, PhD and Florence Ladd, PhD, BlackCommentator.com
Guest Commentators |
Women,
Race and Economic Security
By Shirley J. Wilcher |
Born
with a Skin Disease?! - A Mother’s Whitewash
By David Myers |
Hillary
and McCain: The White Bloc That Must be Stopped
By Eric Mann |
Zimbabwe’s
Elections: Who Are “The Real Revolutionaries”?
By Dr. Keith Jennings, PhD
Guest Commentator |
Zimbabwe:
More Than Complicity of Silence
By Netfa Freeman |
The
New Affirmative Action: Implications in Education and the Workplace
By Milton Hollar-Gregory |
Confessions
of a Mega-Church Member
By Kandise Lucas, PhD |
On
Personal Responsibility and Social Justice
By David Memnon |
Economic
Stimulus to Cultural Empowerment:
The National Museum of African American History and Culture
By Charles Blatcher, III |
SEIU
Officials Have a Blast
By Ken Paff |
Why
We Should Support an Ex-Doofus
By U-Savior Washington |
The
Empathic Power of Images: Civil Rights, Vietnam and Today
By Gary Olson, PhD |
A
Liberating Hope
By The Reverend D. D. Prather |
Those
Who Care About Baseball Should Protest the "Blacklisting"
of Barry Bonds!
By Mike Gimbel |
Decades
of Documented Health Care Disparities
Have Not Brought About Policy Changes
By Kathlyn Stone |
Senators
Could End the Iraq War This Spring
By Sean Donahue and Nancy Lessin
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) |
Prison
Gang Drop-Outs Being Threatened...If They Refuse to Snitch
By Harold Austin |
Whirlpool's
Divisive Development
By Eartha Jane Melzer |
Hillary
is a Sorcerer, an Out-Sourcerer
By Paul Rockwell |
Response
to Pat Buchanan’s Rant
By Vincent G.Thomas |
Energy
Days at the University of Texas
By Daniel N. White |
| My
60th Birthday: A Statement from Assata Shakur |
Thinking
About Birthdays: You're Two
By David Swanson |
The
Senator, His Pastor and the Israel Lobby
By Ali Abunimah |
Post
Racial Conflict: America to Enter Heaven Without Confessing Her Sins
By Lloyd Wynn |
'Damming
the Flood' Powerful [Book Review]
Welcome Examination of Haiti's Criminally Overlooked Recent History
By Benjamin Terrall |
Candidates’
Fear and Reporters’ Scripts: The DA Race in Austin, a Microcosm
of the Bigger Races
By Daniel N. White |
Prodigal
Petraeus
By David Swanson |
One
Raid at a Time: How Immigrant Crackdowns
Build the National Security State
By Roberto Lovato |
Obama’s
Denial: The fear of a Black Messiah
Part 2 of Barack and the "End" of Racism
By Juan Santos |
Building
an Activist Movement to End the Occupation of Iraq and May Day: A
Call To Action
By David Swanson |
The
Time (Yet Again) Is Now
By Nancy Harvin |
Recession:
The Federal Reserve Issuing Welfare Checks at Discount Window; Taxpayers
Not Eligible Due to Moral Hazard
By Lloyd Wynn |
Open
Letter to Hillary Clinton
By Syreeta McFadden |
Let's
Get Our Heads Out of the Sand - Part II
By Lloyd Wynn
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The
Big Mother
By Nicholas Powers
|
The
King, the Knave and the Knight
By Philip A. Bassett, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
|
Let's
Get Our Heads Out of the Sand
By Lloyd Wynn, JD, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
|
Barack
and the "End" of Racism
By Juan Santos
|
Military
Tribunals and You
By Cindy Sheehan
|
I
Wonder If My Vote Will Count?
By The Reverend D. D. Prather
|
The
Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
By Roland Sheppard
|
A
Black Man as President of the United States!
What’s Going On? Why Barack Obama might become President!
By Dr. George Wright, PhD
|
Iraq
Occupation Worse Than Ever
By David Swanson
|
Work
a Day for Freedom! - A Short History of the Free South Africa Labor
Committee
By David Bacon
|
Undermining
Bolivia
By Benjamin Dangl
|
And the
Oscar Goes to...
By Cindy Sheehan
|
From
Negro History Week to Pan-African Historical Context - Black History
Month
By Netfa Freeman
|
Beyond
the Mama’s Chi-chi Theory: Latino Vote Lust Previews Growing
National Sophistication
By Roberto Lovato
|
Civil
Rights Movement Gets Real - St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform
By Don Fitz and Zaki Baruti
|
Can
Your Town Ban the Military from Recruiting Anyone Under 18?
By David Swanson
|
The
Relative State of the Union
By The Reverend D. D. Prather
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Everyone's
an Expert on the Latino Vote, Except Latinos
By Roberto Lovato
|
Hunger
for Home; Darfur Refugees Live with Endless War
By Nicholas Powers
|
The
Former Mr. Willie Jones Meets Nkrumah
The Nation of Islam and Pan-Africanism - Student Writers’ Corner
By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz
|
In-Terror-gation,
Cover-up and Distraction - Part 2
By Chris Stevenson
|
First-hand
View of Army Integration
By Dr. John Berteaux, PhD
|
Cover
Story: Why Have We Become A Nation of Sheep? - Musings of A Movement
Veteran
By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD |
Strategic
Usage of Arts Activism: AFRICOM Policy Review - Student Writers’
Corner
By Chioma Oruh
|
A
Brother Goes to China - Student Writers’ Corner
By Marcus Gadson
|
Kucinich:
I Am a Candidate of the Mainstream -
These Other Candidates Are More Like Republicans
By Jayson Whitehead
|
Why
Diversity Matters
Student Writers’ Corner
By Rasheedah Phillips
|
Paying
for the Wars' Wounded
By Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.)
|
We've
Got To Save Our Black Males At Black Colleges
By Tom Joyner
|
Pakistan's
Dictatorships and the United States
By Dr. Stephen Zunes, PhD
|
Why
Kucinich Should Concede Nothing
By David Swanson
|
Rendition:
The Disinformation Campaign
A Film Review
By Marc Norton |
The
Revenge of The "Good" Blacks: John Ridley, Eugene Robinson,
Juan Williams
By Thought Merchant
|
Reflections
on Cairo: Blackness, Black Pride and the "Arab" part of
the Muslim World - Student Writers’ Corner
By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz
|
Nobel
Al Gore? A Prime Time Hypocrite
By Joshua Frank, Dissident Voice
|
Sexy
Dimes/Sexist Tools: Whittling Down Black Feminist Consciousness -
Student Writers’ Corner
By Hananie Albert, Guest Student Commentator
|
Activism
and Darfur Divestment: Solution or Diversion?
By Kevin Funk and Steve Fake, Foreign Policy In Focus
|
US
Aid Dependency: The Road To Ruin
By Hicham Safieddine, Electronic Lebanon
|
Three
Cheers for the NAACP
By Dr. Ron Walters, PhD
|
Student
Writers' Corner: People Need to Ignore the Stereotypes of Black Males
By Ashley Bates, Guest Student Commentator |
Jena
Six - Another Lesson in the Role of Race and the School to Prison
Pipeline
By Ted Shaw and Damon Hewitt, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
|
The
Problem Here and the Problem There
Healthcare Here and in Rwanda
By Dr. Josh Ruxin, PhD
|
Backwoods
Court Ruling Overturned
By Chris Stevenson |
A
New Day Begun - Jena’s Tentacles of Racism
By The Rev. D. D. Prather and Ms. Denisha M. Delane |
Palestinian
Diaspora: With or Against Collaboration?
By Laith Marouf
|
Despite
Improving U.S. Current Account Deficits,
Risks of Financial Crisis May Be Growing
By Dr. Robert E. Scott, PhD |
Zogby
Poll: 51% of Americans Want Congress to Probe Bush/Cheney Regarding
9/11 Attacks;
Over 30% Seek Immediate Impeachment
67% Also Fault 9/11 Commission for not Investigating Anomalous Collapse
of World Trade Center 7
By Pollster John Zogby
|
Why
Black Radio Continues to Abandon Its Own Community
By U-Savior Washington
|
The
Obama-Edwards Ticket
By David Swanson
|
Labor
Day Hypocrisy
By Stephen Lendman
|
The
Newark Schoolyard Killings And False Assumptions of Black on Black
Crime
By Ryan P. Haygood
|
"The
Problem of the Color Line"
By The Reverend Douglas Demetrius Prather
|
Jena
Louisiana - The Struggle Sharpens
By Li Onesto, Revolution Newspaper
|
Race
is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement:John Conyers and Impeachment
By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. |
Report
Card on Prejudice in America - New Zogby/GSN Survey
By Pollster John Zogby |
The
Israeli Police State
By Avigail Abarbanel, The Electronic Intifada |
CNN's
Lou Dobbs - The Minister of "Propaganda and Enlightenment"
By James Opiko
|
Hurricane
Katrina Will Be As Much A Defining Moment As 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
By John Zogby
|
NYC
Public Schools and the Criminalization of Students: What Kind of System
Does This to Its Children?
By Linda Flores
|
The
Light at the End of the Gaza-Ramallah Tunnel
By Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada
|
Juneteenth:
Free At Last?
By Ryan Paul Haygood
|
The
Other Side of the Rainbow: Visiting A Friend Who Has AIDS
By K. Danielle Edwards
|
The
Franchise of Deception: Triple Ploy and the Lie of Competition
By SaveAccess.org
|
Message
To Black Dads: A New Father’s Day Tradition
By Harold Lee Rush |
Bush's
Economy Is Poverty Stricken, Bleeding Jobs and Ready to Crash
By Dan Merica |
The
South African Presidential Debate
A Market Taliban Versus A Populist Taliban
By Andile Mngxitama
|
A
Patient's Right to "No"
By Timothy R. Cagle
|
Denounce
the LAPD Rampage on May 1st
We Demand a Better World
By Travis Morales, Revolution Newspaper
|
How
the Imus Affair Shows Why We Should Jettison the Phrase ‘Political
Correctness’
By Dr. Howard Brody, MD, PhD
|
Why
Imus Had to Go... & What It Says About This Racist, Sexist System
By Revolution Newspaper
|
Pat
Robertson's Justice Department: The Undue Influence of Regent University
By David A. Love
|
Racial
Slur On Furniture Wrapping Stuns Toronto Family - Mother Had to Explain
To Daughter, 7
Origin of Words "Nigger Brown" On Sofa Label
By Jim Wilkes
|
"Compromised
Justice" - The Duke University Lacrosse Team
By Rev. Douglas Demetrius Prather
|
Are
We Carrying Around the Baggage of Black Codes?
By Michele Mitchell |
To
Be Black In America: An Unflinching Necessity
By Larry Pinkney
|
The
CorporaState Eating America
By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
|
Our
Ideology Is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism -
Our Goal Is the Emancipation of All Humanity
Part 4 of 4
By Bob Avakian
|
The
Call to Boycott the Beijing "Genocide Olympics": How the
"Stop Darfur" Movement Aids the US Drive for Hegemony
By George Wright |
Mamdani
the Darfur Genocide Denialist?
By Andile Mngxitama |
I
Know a Fella
By Arnie King |
After
the Revolution: Dealing with "Racial Divisions" - Part 3
of 4
By Bob Avakian |
Bring
Down Your Airfares or Get Out of Africa
American and European Airlines are Bilking African Passengers
By Jacques Sotero Agboton |
Cover
Story: Why Black Folk Should Care
About the U.S. Attorney Controversy
By Dr. G. Derek Musgrove, PhD |
Neoliberal
Policies of the '90s
Have Worsened Rust Belt's Black Ghettos
By Andrea Lynn |
Statement
of Protest Concerning the Unreasonable Bail Imposed by the San Francisco
Court, re: The San Francisco 8
By Three Former-Panthers: Larry Pinkney, Eddie Williams, and Gerald
Sanders |
Why
I Don’t Hate Asians
By Dr. Eugene Stovall, PhD
|
How
This System Has Betrayed Black People: Crucial Turning Points - Part
2 of 4
By Bob Avakian
|
Never
ending Loans...
By The Reverend D. D. Prather
|
FBI
Hunting the Dead: Can John Bowman Ever Rest in Peace?
by Soffiyah Elijah
|
American
Democracy: A Legacy Of Hypocrisy And Deceit
By Larry Pinkney |
The
Oppression of Black People
And the Revolutionary Struggle
To End All Oppression - Part 1 of 4
By Bob Avakian
|
Obama,
Clinton and "Bozaunga"
By Minister (Dr.) Gyasi A. Foluke
|
Polarized:
Bi-Polar Disorder and the Ghosts That Haunt
By K. Danielle Edwards |
New
Orleans Survivor Council Turns to Venezuela for Support
By The New Orleans Survivor Council, Guest Commentator
|
Mass
Deportations, Vigilantes, Government Supression: STOP the Fascist
Assault on Immigrants!!
|
My
Small Act of Civil Disobedience By Michael T. McPhearson |
Political
Apartheid in America
By Jeff Milchen |
About
the Rape of Sabrine in Iraq
By Yanar Mohammed |
Cindy
Sheehan, George Will, and Loving Your Enemies
By David Swanson |
Feeding
Eighteen Thousand Families Each Month in One Neighborhood in New Orleans:
The Right to Return Eighteen Months after Katrina
By Bill Quigley |
Black
History Month in Britain - The African British Experience
By Delroy Constantine-Simms |
‘One
Step at a Time’:
An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Former President of Haiti
By Peter Hallward |
Wealth
Gap Between Blacks and Whites Has Grown Larger
By Dr. Melvin L. Oliver, PhD and Dr. Thomas Shapiro, PhD |
Unjust
and Undeserved
By Rev. Douglas Demetrius Prather |
Slavery
On The New Plantation
American Torture Chambers:
A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails - Part 2 of 2
By Kiilu Nyasha |
Barak
Obama: Trojan Horse and A Great White Hope?
By Larry Pinkney |
Obama
vs. Giuliani - America's Real Struggle
By Chris Owens |
Civil
Rights Issues Are Never Simply Local: The DC Voting Rights Act Corrects
an American Problem
By Ilir Zherka |
Voices
of Moral Consciousness
Black History Month Message
By Imam Zaid Shakir |
We’re
Headed Towards Separate Americas!
By William Hughes |
100
Senators Quietly Vote: Majority Oppose Escalation
Two things you can do to stop a war on Iran
By David Swanson |
The
Blackness of Obama
By Kimberly Jade Norwood, JD |
Panther
Arrests Evoke Disturbing Legacy of Torture
By David A. Love
|
American
Torture Chambers:
A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails
Part 1 of 2
by Kiilu Nyasha
|
The
Bills That Can End the War
By David Swanson
|
Black
NJ Organizes Against the War
By Jon Levine
|
A
Message from the members of African Americans for a Better Society
(AAFABS)
By Lyle G. Russworm
|
Reluctant
Remembrances
by K. Danielle Edwards |
Aristocrat
Aplomb vs Bourgeois Indiscretions: Superbowl XLI
By H. Lewis Smith
|
Jonesing
for a Hit of Man Fuel:
Of Pigskin Pushers, Football (Fan)atics, and Blissful Blindness
By Jason Miller
|
State
Law Schools in Metro Areas Lead in Graduating Minority Lawyers, Study
Shows:
An Interview with Dean Lawrence R. Velvel, JD
By Sherwood Ross
|
Why
The N-Word Is Not Just Another Word
By H. Lewis Smith |
Africa
Without African Americans
By Ezrah Aharone |
Force
Won't Bring Peace to Somalia
By Khadija O. Ali
|
If
Beal Street Could Talk
Remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform
By David Swanson |
Roots
of Lation/Black Anger:
Longtime Prejudices, Not Economic Rivalry, Fuel Tensions
By Tanya K. Hernandez |
1975
Redux
By Daniel N. White |
A
Funny Phenomenon Among White Liberals and Progressives
By Dr. L. Jean Daniels, PhD |
Can
Obama Become the Person Some of Us Envision?
By Dr. L. Jean Daniels, PhD |
Why
Unions must support the Immigrant Rights Movement
By Karega Hart |
McKinney,
Smith, Bush, and Impeachment
By David Swanson |
The
Benedict Arnold List
By H. Lewis Smith |
Stopping
the N Word Starts With Blacks
By Jasmyne A. Cannick |
The
Bride Wore Black: The Shooting of Sean Bell and the Resurgence of
American Racism
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
U.N.
troops are not the answer
Tragedy in Darfur: Unraveling the Real Causes
By Monica Hill, Freedom Socialist Newspaper |
Justice
Journals: Michael "Kramer" Richards And the Infamous Racial
"outburst"
Apology not Accepted!
By Thomas Palmer |
Impeachment
Proceedings
By Cindy Sheehan |
50
Shots & Michael Richards
Racism Was The Vitriol
Lurking Under The Surface
By Molly Secours |
Blaming
Kramer
by The Rev. Irene Monroe |
The
Corporate Looting of the Gulf Coast - Robin Hood in Reverse
By Bill Quigley |
Gay
Marriage Is Not The Threat To Black America
By Jasmyne A. Cannick |
Education:
An Afrikan World View
by HAWK (J. D. Jackson) |
Pollution
of the Mind - The Willie Lynch Syndrome
by H. Lewis Smith |
George
W. Bush v. The US Constitution
By Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) |
Bush
as Brat: Pretensions to Empire
by David Swanson |
700
unionists ring bells to knock out Santorum - Angry steelworkers drive
Bush brother into subway closet
by Denise Winebrenner Edwards |
Governmental
Derelicts - Moral Meltdown
By Lawrence R. Velvel
Dean of Massachusetts School of Law |
Hidden
Costs of the Iraqi War Exposed
by William Hughes |
CBC
Foundation blows another great opportunity
by Roland S. Martin |
A
Review of Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem
in Four Acts"
by Najee' E. Muhammad, EdD |
Beginning
To See the Light
by Junious Ricardo Stanton |
What's
Wrong With Calling Bush A Devil?
by Jeff Cohen |
Who
Killed Jimmie Lee Jackson?
by Benjamin Greenberg |
Working
to End Taxation Without Representation in the Nation’s Capital
by Ilir Zherka |
Regarding
Blacks and Mexicans
by John A Imani |
What
Do You Stand For: Revolution or Rhetoric?
by Carey "Geechie Man" Bryant |
Iraq
and 9/11: The Truth Is Out
By Jason Leopold |
Fidel
Castro’s Health: Why the African Diaspora should support revolutionary
Cuba
by James Early, Board Member, TransAfrica Forum |
Written
in the Blood - My genealogical quest to untangle ancestry and heritage
by Chris Rabb |
The
LA Mayor’s School Reform Plan: Finally, The Black Community’s
Hand Is Forced...
But To Do What?
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
Follow
the Prison Money Trail
By Silja J.A. Talvi |
Meritocracy
- used, misused and abused chaos
By Daniel Pryzbyla |
As Our Neighborhoods Turn, Can We Turn
With Them?
By Christopher D. Cathcart |
The Katrina
Aftermath One Year:
What are the Lessons Learnt?
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
Where
Were You When They Took Your Rights Away? Camp Democracy Begins September
5th, 2006
by David Swanson |
The Dumbing-Down
of Black America by Black Media
by James Clingman Jr. |
Mexico’s
Elections System Beat US, Hands Down
by Tom Grayman |
Were
Black ‘Terrorists’ Entrapped?
by Wendell P. Simpson |
Re-Liberating
Zimbabwe
by Dwight Kirk |
Negro
Subversion: Then and Now.
by Clinton L. Cox |
Lessons
in Avoiding Mass Ignorance: Black People and Cell Phones
by Kennedy Johnson |
Don't
Tread on Me! - An Open Letter to Senate Republican Leadership
by Walter Fields |
Yet
Another Hard Road To Glory:
Examining Shani Davis Through Black Female Perspectives
by Rhone Fraser |
Stop Snitchin’
On Yourself
by Andreas Hale |
Health
care is no joke for the poor
by Byron Hobbs |
"Poverty
is no excuse" is bankrupt
by Daniel Pryzbyla |
Kevin
Phillips’American Theocracy: A Study of Late Stage US Capitalism
by Anthony Monteiro |
Reflections
On The Life And Death Of A Manchild In The Promised Land
by Paul Moore |
Ruminations
on a Wounding and a Blinding
by Harold Bridgeman |
Mute Man Talking:
Poetry Under Surveillance - Foreword and Interview
by Yahsmin M.B. BoBo |
Black
Deaths in 2005: Is Anybody Watching?
by Sheryl Smikle, PhD |
Post-Colonial
Blacks
by Mandisi Majavu |
An
Open Letter to the Class of 2006
by Paul Moore |
Being
‘The Covenant’ Watchdog:
Does Tavis Smiley Need Watching?
by Rhone Fraser |
Hating
Barry Bonds
by Bob Wing |
Exploitation
Without Borders
by Eisha Mason |
Unprecedented
tension within the modern world - An Open Letter from a Black Minister
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. |
African-Americans,
Economic Well-Being, and Immigration
by Chaka A. K. Uzondu |
Back
from New Orleans
by Nzingha Tyehemba |
Racism
Is Alive and Well in the Academe
by Abdul Karim Bangura
|
Who’s
Pimpin’ Who? The Hip-Hop Generation’s Need to Rename (Reclaim)
Itself
by Marjorie Fields Harris, Esq. with Reverend Darren Ferguson |
Drug
Leniency for the Privileged
Draconian Sentences for Blacks and Latinos
by Anthony Papa |
A
Rage of Disenfranchisement
By Ryan Paul Haygood |
Malcolm
and Martin: The Struggle Continues
by Jason Bailey |
Public
Education 101:
What Every Parent and Teacher
Needs To Know
by Susan Alyn |
Et tu Michael
Eric Dyson?
Fraternizing with the Devil
by Dr. Jared A. Ball, PhD |
Revisiting
King’s ‘White Moderate’
by Rhone Fraser |
Investigating
the Crash Scene
by Derik Smith |
Nike:
Borrowing From The Dope Man’s Playbook
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. |
Chitlin’
Jobs - Black Folks Get Diminishing Scraps
by Meizhu Lui |
Why
Is Tavis Smiling? And Why Are We Watching?
by Leutisha Stills |
Notes
on Political Education
by Jonathan Scott |
Letter
to Shani Davis: Show ‘Em Your South Side
by Roger Brown |
Turning
Racism Upside Down To See It Rightside Up
by Dr. Edward Rhymes |
Congress
Betrays Both the People and the Constitution
by Pat Gowens |
Affirmative
Action in Brazil - The Day of the Lambs
by Italo Ramos |
Coretta
Scott King Goes Home
by Donald H. Smith, PhD |
The
West's Debt to Africa - An Argument for Reparations
by Courtenay Barnett |
Black
Hip Hop History
by Akweli Parker |
The
GOP’s Black Voter Suppression Strategy
by Dr. G. Derek Musgrove |
Turning
Democracy Right Side Up
by Ryan Paul Haygood |
Martin Luther
King, Jr.’s Expansive Dream
by The Rev. Irene Monroe |
Stalling
the Dream:
Racial Gaps in the Car Culture
by Meizhu Lui |
A
Canadian Ban on U.S. Rapper?
50 Cent Solutions to One Dollar Problems
by Mesfin Aman |
The
Demise of Public Schooling
by Patricia A. Young, PhD |
The
‘Promised Land’ - Why We're Still Waiting
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
A
New Iraq or a New Orleans?
by James Clingman |
Condoleezza
Rice: A Death Trip
by John Maxwell |
Ode
to Richard Pryor
by Dr. Edward Rhymes |
The
Harlem Project: The Weapon That Ended the War
by Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil. |
Sharks,
Elephants, Abandoned Puppies, and a Tiger of a Total Man: Stanley
‘Tookie’ Williams
by Terry Lynn Howcott |
Which
is the Black Oriented Media?
by Alex Walker |
Storm
Warnings for America’s Public Schools
by Paul A. Moore |
Voter
Photo ID - Legislators Should Look Before They Leap
by Alaina C. Beverly |
‘Interview
with Katrina’
by Rhone Fraser |
Letter
from a Black Man in Canada: Rosa Parks v. Condoleezza Rice
by Norman (Otis) Richmond |
Judge
Constance Baker Motley:
‘A Significant Life’
by Donita Judge |
Post-Katrina
New Orleans:
The Crisis of Black Leadership Revisited
by Francis A. Kornegay |
An
Open Letter to the Mayor of New Orleans: Flip the Local Economic Development
Script
by Audrey McFarlane |
Blacks
Rated Lower Than Animals
by Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil.
|
A
Moment of Silence for Rosa Parks
A Poem by Rodney Coates
|
Player
Hating: Setting Rigid Controls for ‘Nothing But Africans’
by Terry Lynn Howcott
|
Morpheus
Evolution
by Morpheus
|
The Great
Reward
by Brooks Berndt
|
Canada’s
Crimes Against Haiti
by Norman (Otis) Richmond
|
The
Confederates of Memphis
(and Negroes who have more important things to do)
by D'Army Bailey
|
Voting
Rights and Katrina
by Ryan Paul Haygood
|
Haiti,
Imperialism, and the Treachery of Liberals
by Shirley Pate |
How
Black Conservatives Hurt Their Cause
by James Thindwa
|
The
Millions More March: Black America’s ‘Last Chance,’
or Just The Next One...
by Anthony Asadullah Samad
|
Displaced
or a Refugee? The Legal Difference
by Tamara K. Nopper
|
After the
Deluge: How Do Blacks Get to the Table?
by Earl Picard, Ph.D
|
'Castaways’
Above the Fold
by Bernestine Singley
|
An
Evolution of Lies
by Harold M. Clemens
|
The
Slave Master and the Devil
by Brooks Berndt |
Framing Katrina:
Dominant Media and Damage Control in the Wake of a Not-so Natural
Disaster
by Paul Street |
In
Arkansas, Grassroots Activists to the Rescue of Katrina Evacuees
by Seth Sandronsky |
A Personal
Commentary on the Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
by Faye Kennedy |
Minority
Inclusion is Diversity Diversion at the GOP: A View from the Black
Republican Side
by Wamara Mwine |
A Pitiable
Response to Katrina:
Citizens Swept Aside by Government
by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson
|
New
Orleans Unmasks
" Apartheid, American Style"
by Jason Miller
|
Wade in the
Water:
Reflections on Race, Class and Katrina
by Alton B. Pollard, III
|
Brighter
Prospects?
Ms. Bush and White America’s
Rhetoric of Limited Alternatives
by Jacqueline Bacon
|
Ready
for Revolution:
A message for Barbara Bush
by Toronto Jones
|
Katrina:
Contemporary Screams of Agony
by Terry Lynn Howcott |
The Political
Wrath of Hurricane Katrina
by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |
Expulsion
is Transfer:
The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans
by Jonathan Scott |
Blacks
of Native American Ancestry Fight for Recognition
by Damario Solomon Simmons |
Unbearable
Crime on the Mississippi
by Thulani Davis |
America’s
Pretenses Washed Away
by Scottie Lowe |
Back
To School: A Letter to Teachers
by Roger Brown |
Understanding
Pickaninnies and Improving the Race
by Troy Peters |
Mystery
of The Negro Conservative
by Charles Cinque Fulwood |
Slavery,
Reparations, and the Uses (and Abuses) of History
by Jacqueline Bacon |
Relishing
Freedom in the Face of Injustice
by Kirsten Levingston and Alan Jenkins |
Black
Congressional Leadership Drives Demand for Downing Street Minutes
Investigation
by David Swanson
|
Tragedy
or Farce? White Supremacy is Incompatible with Civilization
by Jonathan Scott
|
‘Strange
Fruit’ in Iraq - Journalist Who Probed Torture and Executions
is Murdered
by Lizz Brown
|
Knowing
The Difference Between A Conscious Black, A Negro and A Ni**a: Our
Progress Depends On It
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
White
Mexican Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Again
by Abdul Karim Bangura
|
Haitian
Elections: No Voters, No Problem
by Sue Ashdown and Olivia Burlingame Goumbri
|
Never Too Late
to End Terror
by Ron Scott
|
Pining
for the Pistons
by Dave Zirin
|
Slavery in the
Third Millennium, Part III - Human Bondage Revisited: the Return of
the Chain Gang
by Randall G. Shelden |
Harold
Ford, Social Security, and Telling Lies
by Charles Cinque Fulwood |
Clarence
Thomas: Searching for Death While Burying the Truth
by Greg Moses |
Who
Appointed Tony Blair as Africa’s Messiah?
by Mark P. Fancher |
Slavery in the
Third Millennium, Part II - Prisons and Convict Leasing Help Perpetuate
Slavery
by Randall G. Shelden |
If
White America had a Bill Cosby
by Jonathan Scott |
The Lords of Dark
Town Rescue Us All
by Martin de Porres |
Slavery
in the Third Millennium, Part I - Prisons and Slavery: Seeking Cheap
Labor and Control of African-Americans
by Randall G. Shelden
|
The Unfulfilled Promise
of Brown v. Board of Education
by Ryan Paul Haygood
|
The Legacy
of the Bandung
by Norman (Otis) Richmond
|
Black Gay
Pride: Does Green Know the Difference Between Black and White?
By Jasmyne Cannick |
The
Color of Politics
and the Idiocy of American Racism
by Rodney Foxworth |
Punks Jump Up
to Get Beat Down:
The Permanence of U.S. Mediocrity
by Jonathan Scott |
Song of
a Never-Was South
Will Disney re-release a twisted film?
by Hollis Henry |
BET Nightly News Cancelled
- No Big Loss
by Michael K. Fauntroy, Ph.D.
|
Conquest
& Desire: A letter from West Africa
by Devanne Brookins
|
How New York City
is Failing Black Kids
by Zahraa Abante-Hayes
|
An African
in Canada
by Charles Kinyua Ruthari |
The passing of a
legend:
Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales
by Jorge Mariscal
|
MINUSTAH,
US Proxy:
You can’t contain Haiti
by Shirley Pate |
A
Riddle For Black Conservatives: What Would Happen If Terri Was Toya?
by Rev. Reynard Blake, Jr.
|
Lawyers
Against the War are After Bush
by Norman (Otis) Richmond
|
Credit,
Conspicuous Consumption and Crisis in Black America
by David Crockett, PhD
|
Debt
Slavery: What the Bankruptcy Bill Could Do to You
by David Swanson |
Beware
Republicans Bearing Gifts
by Troy Peters |
Redefining
The Black Struggle:
Where Is, And Just Who Is On, The Frontline?
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
Slices of Black
Life: Racial Profiling at JCPenney
by Chris Stevenson |
PBS
Says American Slavery was Natural: Eradicating Bacon’s Rebellion
from Popular Memory
by Jonathan Scott |
The Harsh but
Doable Economics of the American City
by Marcellus Andrews |
Hatian
Police Open Fire on Nonviolent March for Democracy
by Bill Quigley
|
Political Rape
Rampant in Haiti
by Lyn Duff
|
The Full
Blown “Oprah Effect”: Reflections on Color, Class, and
New Age Racism
by Paul Street
|
Malcolm’s
Contribution to Black Voting Rights
by Ryan Paul Haygood
|
The Silence
of the Blonds
John Maxwell |
The Invisible
Asterisk:
Reflections of What Might Have Been
by Dr. Edward Rhymes |
An
Asterisk for Major League Baseball
by Don Santina |
No Bush
Mandate from Women of Color
by Linda Burnham |
Sam
Cooke Still Resonates
by Norman (Otis) Richmond |
Election
Reaffirms ‘The South Won The Civil War’
by Minister Dr. Gyasi A. Foluke
|
Wanted:
House Negroes. Will Train.
by John Reynolds III
|
No Ray of Hope
by Norman (Otis) Richmond
|
Berlin
Anti-Colonial Conference:
120 Years of African Resistance
by James Culver Jr.
|
The 2004
Presidential Election:
Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy
by Dr. Alvin Wyman Walker |
No Exit
in Black: Trapped by the Economy and Politics
by Marcellus Andrews |
The African
Christ
by Omar Swartz |
We’ve
Seen This ‘B-Movie’ Before: The New Black Tokenism and
American Empire
by Dennis Childs |
Art at War:
Revolutionary Art Against Cultural Imperialism
by Ewuare Osayande |
Brownballed?
Desegregation Without Real Integration is an Invitation for Dysfunction
by Edward Rhymes Ph.D
|
The Color
of Justice
by Ryan Paul Haygood |
Now
Can the "Tiger" Hating Stop?
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
Message
To Alan Keyes: Put On A Cowboy Hat!
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. |
Neocolonialism
and the Cap Anamur Refugees
by James Culver, Jr. |
Mumia
and the NAACP:
Finally, a Call for Justice
by Bill Bachmann
|
The
Color of Integration
by Ryan Paul Haygood |
Dismantling The ‘Bling’
- Another Look at Hip-Hop
by Reynard Blake, Jr. |
Rape,
Racism and Victim Advocacy
by Lisa M. Calderón, M.L.S., J.D.
|
A Mexican
American General in the Service of Empire
by Jorge Mariscal |
The
Miller Beating and LAPD's Culture Of Abuse
by Anthony Asadullah Samad |
If I Get Shot By
The Police
by Adam Bahner |
Juneteenth:
Free At Last?
by Ryan Paul Haygood |
Lethal Weapons:
Guns, Gangs, Politicians & Preachers
by Harold Bell |
The
Acholi of Uganda Face Starvation and Genocide
by Peter Okema Otika |
South African 10th:
A Decade of Democracy - A New Generation of Struggle
by Andre Banks and Devanne Brookins |
A Different
Global Vision
by Cynthia McKinney |
Dr. Rice Playing
in the Key of C
by James Culver, Jr. |
What
have our weapons done to help the Iraqis?
by Maddi Bee |
A Black British
View: ‘Colorblind discrimination’ - the new racism?
by Clare Xanthos |
From
Schoolhouse to Jailhouse - Doing Hard Time in Public Schools
by Annette Fuentes |
Report from
an Urban War Zone: Can the Altars of Violence become Memorials to
Victories?
by Daphne Muse |
Let
Haiti Hear Us!
by Daphne Muse |
Is
Building a Burger Manufacturing a Product?
by Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC) |
Race,
Racism and the Law
by Vernellia R. Randall |
Washington's
Hand Against Democracy and for
Extra-Constitutional Regime Change in Haiti
by Marguerite Laurent, Esq. |
Condoleezza
Rice and the Politics of Personal Power
by Lloyd Cata |
Sex, Drugs, &
Cash:
The Hypocrisy Of The National
Football League And The Media
by Reynard Blake, Jr. |
"But
He’s a Chicken!"
Affirmative Action, George W. Bush and Why White Males Love Him
by Reynard N. Blake |
African Americans
Crucial to Democratic Victory
by Donna Brazile |
EEOC
'Diversity in Law Firms' Report: A Heap of Stones
by Abdul Karim Bangura |
To Hell with
the British Commonwealth
by Mark P. Fancher |
Paramour
Rights and Reparations Issues
By C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D. |
The Conning of
Black America
by Dedrick Muhammad |
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