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Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

By Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt Guest Commentator

Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the “Black Indians,” the African-descended people who were joined with the “Five Civilized Tribes” of the southeastern U.S. under a legal status that the U.S. government recognized as slavery –…

Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the…

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Commentary

RE-PRINT – Iraq’s Nuclear Non-Capability

By Imad Khadduri

Originally published in www.YellowTimes.org, an online news/opinion publication whose mission is to offer readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new thinking about the causes and effects of those events. As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the efforts of the American and British governments,…

Originally published in www.YellowTimes.org, an online news/opinion publication whose mission is to offer readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Analysis: – Poll Shows Black Political Consensus Strong

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

African Americans remain in remarkable, consistent agreement on political issues, a shared commonality of views that holds strongly across lines of income, gender and age. The Black Commentator’s analysis of biannual data from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies confirms the vitality of a broad Black Consensus. Most importantly, the data show that…

African Americans remain in remarkable, consistent agreement on political issues, a shared commonality of views that holds strongly across lines of income, gender and age. The…

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Commentary – The Harold Ford Show

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The Publishers of www.BlackCommentator.com are pleased to announce that the Internet publication is now published weekly. BlackCommentator.com now provides commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans, twice as often as before. BlackCommentator.com began as a monthly…

News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail: 856.823.1739 The Publishers of www.BlackCommentator.com are pleased to announce that…

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Commentary – The Harold Ford Show

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Harold Ford, Jr. put on a spectacle last week for the sake of his own, outsized Senatorial ambitions and to further ingratiate himself to the right wing of the Democratic Party, the same people who have engineered the erosion of progressive politics in the U.S. since the mid-Eighties with their “new” and politically bankrupt, warmed-over…

Harold Ford, Jr. put on a spectacle last week for the sake of his own, outsized Senatorial ambitions and to further ingratiate himself to the right…

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Commentary – The Harold Ford Show

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Unfunny Valentine Despite our best efforts, THE CRISIS, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, remains under the editorship of Victoria Valentine, a person who cannot tell the difference between friends and foes of the magazine’s parent organization, the NAACP. Valentine gave both praise and space to Cory Booker, the school vouchers advocate and board…

Unfunny Valentine Despite our best efforts, THE CRISIS, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, remains under the editorship of Victoria Valentine, a person who cannot…

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Briefs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals.” – George W. Bush, from Bush at War The Bush regime’s strategic decision to seize effective control of the planet translates domestically as wholesale pillaging of American civil society. Breathtaking is too weak a word to describe the scope of what the Republicans have accomplished under…

"I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals." - George W. Bush, from Bush at War The Bush regime's strategic decision to seize effective control…

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Trojan Horse Watch

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Bush Administration is directly funding a media campaign by the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the school vouchers propaganda outfit created by the far-right Bradley Foundation. The blatant political nature of the gift could not be plainer. “We want to change the conversation about parental choice by positively influencing individuals who are resisting…

The Bush Administration is directly funding a media campaign by the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the school vouchers propaganda outfit created by the far-right…

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