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Cover Story: African American Peacemakers - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Brack Obama, and the Struggle Against Racism, Inequality and War

Halliburton Tax Check
By Mark Hurwitt

Political Cartoon: Halliburton Tax Check

After 30 Years, the MOVE 9 Must be Paroled - Color of Law


Cornel West Calls Obama Out for Dissing King Tribute - Inclusion

 

The Judas Factor: Barack Obama and a Movement Betrayed (or ‘for Those Who Have Joined the Empire’) - Keeping It Real

An Open Letter to the Major League Baseball Players’ Association on Curt Flood - The African World

Satchel Paige
By London Ladd - Illustrator

Art: Satchel Paige

Quote to Ponder: "I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white eople required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise." - Curt Flood

Rogue Ideology: They Love You If You’re Dead! - Represent Our Resistance

Business as Usual - Smoke and Mirrors

The King Assassination: Forty Years Later...and This Country Still Hasn’t Gotten Over It - Between the Lines

Senator Clinton and Senator Obama: Use Your Leadership Now to End the War in Iraq!

 

Petraeus Iraq Report
By Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany

Political Cartoon: Petraeus Iraq Report

Reflections on King, Candidates and Movements

Hip Hop Framed - Poetic Black Fusion

There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals - National Affairs

Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Revisited - Worrill’s World

Hillary is a Sorcerer, an Out-Sourcerer

Response to Pat Buchanan’s Rant

Energy Days at the University of Texas

Let My Pistols Go
By John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri

Political Cartoon: Let My Pistols Go

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April 10, 2008
Issue 272

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Executive Editor:
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