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The State of Black American Politics: Dr. Martin Kilson’s Report to the National Urban League

Dignity – Plus a Living Wage and Benefits: Home health care workers win victories – for themselves and civilization

A letter to our readers: Burger King digested… Ashcroft stalks librarians… Cory Booker roams wilderness

Commentaries in Issue Number 8 – July 25, 2002

Hilliard Calls for New Institutions to Protect Black Interests: Defeated Congressman expresses deep distrust of Ivy League –

A Black Commentator interview

Peace and Justice Forces Rally to McKinney: By Frances M. Beal, Guest Commentator

A letter to our readers: Reparations: The Value of White Privilege… Highly Suspicious Christian Soldiers… Neighborhood Watch in Havana… Binges and Wars Over Wall Street

e-Mailbox: Troublesome author wants space… J.C. Watts claims his face helps Black people… Vouchers cure “uncivilized” behavior, enhance brain… Moderate Republicans blame for woes

Commentaries in Issue Number 7 – July 11, 2002

Voucher Tricksters:The Hard Right Enters Through the Schoolhouse Door

Randall Kennedy: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Fool… How the NAACP Handled the N-word…J.C. Watts, Gone in a Flash

Race and National Security:

“Tar Baby Outrage” Update

Commentaries in Issue Number 6 – June 27, 2002

The N-word as Therapy for Racists: Randall Kennedy’s Idiotic Assault on Black People’s Honor

A Monument to George Washington’s Slaves: Picking favorites among Black heroes and What a real man said on the 4th of July

Goin’ South:

To save itself, organized labor must capture Dixie

CIA Trumps FBI: Forget about a War on Drugs

National Security News Alert: President is Warned Race Bias “Threatens National Security”- Special Edition – Issue Number 5 – June 13, 2002

Commentaries in issue 4 – June 7, 2002:

Tar Baby Outrage!: Racism and Corruption at the Redstone Arsenal

Condoleezza’s Complaint & Paratroopers in the Basement: Connie’s image and the Venezuelan coup

Did the Green Party Betray Black America: by Dr. Jonathan David Farley, Guest Commentator

A Law That Gives Racists Something to Fear:by Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Fogg, Guest Commentator

Commentaries in previous issues :

Condoleezza & Geraldo, a Fine Pair: The Role Models’ Burden

Hard Right Cash Defeated in Black City – This Time

Ultra-Conservative Favorite Cory Booker Loses in Newark, New Jersey

Newark: The First Domino? – The Hard Right Tests its National Black Strategy

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: The Hard Right’s Plan to Capture Newark NJ

A Letter from Harvard: “How to spot a “Black Trojan Horse.” Dr. Martin Kilson, Guest Commentator

Reparations Part One: The True Value of Some Land and an Animal

The Living Wage Movement: A New Beginning – Bread, Power and Civil Rights in 19 Languages

Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s Statement on the Events of September 11: The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September11 is as obvious as is the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle.

Make The Amendment: How to Get the U.S. Government Out of the International Drug Trade

Psychologically Unfit: The U.S. Can’t Handle the Death Penalty

Linquistic Profiling: By Patrice D. Johnson, guest commentator

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