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The N-Word Part 3

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Kennedy is among a growing number of what could be called Black counter-opinion-makers; African Americans who can be counted on to help whites rationalize racism. This peculiar and perverted little industry has its own specialists and, like flies drawn to cow dung, they find each other. It is useful here to remind readers of the…

Kennedy is among a growing number of what could be called Black counter-opinion-makers; African Americans who can be counted on to help whites rationalize racism. This…

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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and White Farmers

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dr. Chika A. Onyeani is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of The African Sun Times, based in East Orange, NJ. In Zimbabwe, white farmers are still being defiant to the order issued by the government of President Robert Mugabe that they should vacate farm lands that government has targeted for take over. Others have decided to obey…

Dr. Chika A. Onyeani is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of The African Sun Times, based in East Orange, NJ. In Zimbabwe, white farmers are still being defiant…

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The Promise of Reparations

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It is important that Black youth, the Reparations Generation, have the benefit of detailed proposals from adults with ideas on how they might become the architects of their own destinies. The popularizing phase of Reparations is near completion. We must take the movement further, by engaging the talents, skills and imaginations of the people, especially…

It is important that Black youth, the Reparations Generation, have the benefit of detailed proposals from adults with ideas on how they might become the architects…

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DC’s Measure 62: A Green Light for Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation by Opio Lumumba Sokoni, J.D., Guest Commentator

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Opio Lumumba Sokoni is an activist lawyer trained at Howard University School of Law. He is the Drug Policy Alliance’s campaign coordinator for Measure 62. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a nationwide drug reform organization that believes the war on drugs has failed and it’s time to start looking at alternatives. DPA believes drug…

Opio Lumumba Sokoni is an activist lawyer trained at Howard University School of Law. He is the Drug Policy Alliance's campaign coordinator for Measure 62. The…

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A letter to our readers: Fight on, Sister McKinney Afghan dope on U.S. streets Don’t bet Black futures on the market Rep. Clyburn bears witness to racist crime

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dear Reader, The electoral defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney signals the end of any “special relationship” between African Americans and mainstream organized American Jewry. Plenty of Blacks will make themselves available to tell these mainstream Jewish organizations differently, but the end has come, nonetheless. (Note my language, carefully: I did not say that we have…

Dear Reader, The electoral defeat of Rep. Cynthia McKinney signals the end of any "special relationship" between African Americans and mainstream organized American Jewry. Plenty of…

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The State of Black American Politics

By Dr. Martin Kilson Editorial Board

Dr. Martin Kilson’s grand overview of the course of Black American electoral politics during the past three decades is required reading for all persons concerned with U.S. history and politics. Kilson’s exposition and interpretation of the “core agenda” that has mobilized African American activists, politicians and voters, from passage of the Voting Rights Act of…

Dr. Martin Kilson's grand overview of the course of Black American electoral politics during the past three decades is required reading for all persons concerned with…

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

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The people who control the machinery of popular American culture do not truly believe in the dignity of labor. How could they, in a nation built on the backs of slaves, a society in which human worth – humanness, itself – was measured in direct inverse ratio to the difficulty of the tasks performed. The…

The people who control the machinery of popular American culture do not truly believe in the dignity of labor. How could they, in a nation built…

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

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dear Reader, It is difficult to fight an enemy whose dimensions are almost impossible to envision, a foe that ravages the landscape from such heights and at speeds that human minds are not wired to grasp. Corporate financial entities soar like huge, crazed flocks of Japanese movie “Rodan” flying dinosaurs or mythic Chinese dragons, flattening…

Dear Reader, It is difficult to fight an enemy whose dimensions are almost impossible to envision, a foe that ravages the landscape from such heights and…

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Links Privacy Policy Remove If someone passed along to you make sure you visit the Free Sign Up page. Don’t miss anything! 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…

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