Category: Cover Story

After the election, November 2006 The voters have spoken. They want healthcare now. They expect Congress to move quickly to fix the healthcare system in the United States. And they want something like a single-payer system, a plan where everybody gets the healthcare they need and where all of us pay into it on a…

With the publication of issue #200 on October 5, 2006 we created a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board and took a new, more inclusive and broader direction. Today the board totals 20 members with the addition of the 4 individuals listed below in alphabetical order by last name. Hany K. Khalil – Organizing Coordinator for United…

“The Time is Now.” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting, November 12, 2006, in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16 states joined in thinking about how to push forward for a single-payer national healthcare system in the United States in a marathon 10-hour strategy session. Healthcare-NOW is a bottom…

After more than a decade in exile, political analysts predict that Democrats will regain control of the House of Representatives in the November elections. If forecasts are correct, Democratic House leaders will have the power to set the legislative agenda and enact measures to check the powers of the President for the first time in…

We have dealt with the politics of slavery and we have dealt with the politics of segregation. We have struggled against the politics of disenfranchisement and, led by Malcolm’s deconstructing critique, the politics of racism. But the politics of the Bush administration and today’s Republican Right represent a new and unprecedented ideological politics that disdains…

Sandra had only recently received her license to provide childcare, in 2001, when she first came across Khalid and his mother, Tanisha Watson, at the Jesse Owens Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The park had become an afternoon retreat for the five kids that Sandra was supervising, located two blocks from the house she shares with…

This was a speech given at Columbia University, October 10, 2006. A couple of weeks ago, I heard a news story on the Pacifica Program “Democracy Now.” It was a brief story concerning a series of ads that the Republican Party is running in Maryland and Ohio in order to appeal to African American voters.…

There are a couple big news items at BlackCommentator.com this week. The publication of issue #200 is cause enough for celebration. However, add to that achievement the creation of a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board, and the news becomes spectacular. With the creation of the BC Editorial Board, BC is taking a new, more inclusive and…

It has been described as the silent killer, North America’s epidemic, affecting all who fall in the path of its sometimes lethal sword. It wreaks havoc with our immune systems, causes coronary heart disease, gastrointestinal problems, hastening cancers and psychological illnesses. Statistics show more women fall victim to this modern-day scourge known as stress than…

The riots that broke out in Atlanta, Georgia between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern of anti-black violence that included several hundred lynchings each year. September 22-24, 1906 is the 100th anniversary of the Atlanta Race Riot. In Atlanta, the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot has planned a series of…