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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…

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The core facts of Earl Hilliard’s defeat by Arthur Davis are clear. Davis, a 34 year-old Harvard Law School graduate, formerly a federal prosecutor, first ran against 60 year-old Hilliard, a product of Howard Law School, in 2000. Davis lost by 24 percentage points. This year, Davis vastly outspent Hilliard; the last figures posted by…

The grand scope of the – literal – American reconstruction after World War Two was designed to meet a howling white demand: affordable housing and racial segregation. To achieve this, the national landscape would have to be reconfigured. The suburbs were born, and the core cities were brought near to death. Now, how many billions…

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“This decision does nothing but further undercut the concept of universal quality public education.” – Kweisi Mfume, Executive Director, NAACP, on the U.S. Supreme Court voucher ruling. “Socially disadvantaged children had their best day in court since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.” – George F. Will, right-wing syndicated columnist. “Charles Murray, in my…

Mr. Randall is a selfish fool, and making a lot of money at the expense of his people and his heritage. He’s truly playing into the hand of the many whites who have been dying to use the “N” word. Whites will now think it’s politically correct. The NAACP’s Pre-emptive Cyber-Strike The goal of treachery…

In the immediate wake of September 11, uniformed and civilian supervisors started tossing an ancient racial epithet around the offices of Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama. A firestorm of outrage erupted as it became clear that, in the “rocket capital of the world” Black weapons scientists are regarded as nothing more than “Tar Babies.” (See…

From: Co-Publisher Glen Ford To: Readers Dear Reader, If you have occasion to fly the jittery skies during this holiday period, be aware that you owe a measure of your safety to South Carolina’s Black Congressman James E. Clyburn and to American Airlines whistleblower Julie Robichaux. George Bush is no more the air traveler’s guardian…

The CIA now reigns supreme in the international narcotics trade arena. Inevitably, the agency will further infect us with the drug plague; that’s simply the way it does business. The FBI is all but out of the narcotics game, gutted in the May-June battle over who was to blame for September 11. Somebody had to…