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Issue: 112

November 4, 2004

Cover Story

Concede Nothing to Bush – Black Consensus Remains Intact

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice. Despite faith-based blandishments to the sell-out branch of the Black…

The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: The Real Boston Curse

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

The Boston Red Sox won the baseball World Series in 1918 but they didn’t win another one until 2004. The Red Sox traded their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees in order to raise money for an investment in a Broadway show. It is commonly believed that this transaction was the source…

The Boston Red Sox won the baseball World Series in 1918 but they didn’t win another one until 2004. The Red Sox traded their star player,…

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Commentary

Former Prisoners and the Franchise: Those people don’t vote anyway…do they?

By Ernest Drucker, PhD

The following address is scheduled for presentation to the American Public Health Association, Black Caucus, in Washington, DC on November 10. Since the Florida election of 2000 (where 600,000 citizens with criminal convictions were barred from voting ) felony disenfranchisement has attracted a lot of attention. Over the last three decades 12 million Americans have…

The following address is scheduled for presentation to the American Public Health Association, Black Caucus, in Washington, DC on November 10. Since the Florida election of…

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Commentary

No Exit in Black: Trapped by the Economy and Politics

By Marcellus Andrews

The just concluded presidential election was all about Iraq, with the state of the economy lagging in importance while questions about poverty, economic inequality and racial justice languished in the shadows. As always, the concerns of black people were invisible to the parties and to white America. Black American voters were again caught in a…

The just concluded presidential election was all about Iraq, with the state of the economy lagging in importance while questions about poverty, economic inequality and racial…

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Commentary

The African Christ

By Omar Swartz

Why are television evangelists or the corner fire-and-brimstone preachers we find on college campuses and in other places reprehensible to many people who, themselves, attend Church on Sunday and consider themselves pious? Whenever this issue comes up in class, my students tell me that these preachers “give Christianity a bad name,” and “do not reflect…

Why are television evangelists or the corner fire-and-brimstone preachers we find on college campuses and in other places reprehensible to many people who, themselves, attend Church…

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