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Cover Story: Mugabe Sworn in Officially...Simultaneously Loses his Legacy... - The African World - By Bill Fletcher, Jr. - BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor

Mugabe
By Deng Coy Miel, Singapore

Political Cartoon: Mugabe By Deng Coy Miel, Singapore

"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" - Speech by Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852

Reading Slavery By Another Name in the Obama-Mania Era - Represent Our Resistance - By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD - BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board

COSATU Demands Democracy in Zimbabwe - A Statement by the Congress of South African Trade Unions - BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentators

Can gun-totting solve gay-bashing? - Inclusion - By The Reverend Irene Monroe - BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board

Sometimes / Why We Cannot Give Up - Keeping it Real - By Larry Pinkney - BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board

Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
By Mark Hurwitt

Political Cartoon: Iraq Status of Forces Agreement By Mark Hurwitt

More Happy Talk From This Administration - Smoke and Mirrors - By Lloyd Wynn, BlackCommentator.com Columnist

Will A Black President Dispel The Need For Diversity? - Between the Lines By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD, BlackCommentator.com Columnist

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 - BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator

Frederick Douglass
By London Ladd

Art: Frederick Douglass By London Ladd

Quote to Ponder: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass

Black August 2008 By Kiilu Nyasha, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator

Building Me A Home - Poetic Black Fusion By Poet Blackman Preach, BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

Metamorphosis
By Nerilicon Antonio Neri Licón, Milenio, Mexico

Political Cartoon: Metamorphosis By Nerilicon Antonio Neri Licón, Milenio, Mexico

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July 3, 2008
Issue 284

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