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Issue: 129

March 10, 2005

Cover Story

Bush’s Grand Plan for Blacks – Put ‘New Leaders’ in Charge

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It is a great mistake to view the Bush regime’s ferocious assaults on Black and poor America as simply a more vicious version of standard Republican behavior since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The Bush crowd is different than their predecessors; they don’t just want to defeat Black political leadership, but to replace it. The mass Black…

It is a great mistake to view the Bush regime’s ferocious assaults on Black and poor America as simply a more vicious version of standard Republican…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Terrorists in Chicago

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

In Baghdad, Barwiz Muhammad Mahmoud al-Merani was shot to death along with his son. Al-Merani was slated to serve on the tribunal that will prosecute Saddam Hussein. In Chicago, federal judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow came home to find her husband and mother dead from gun shot wounds. Assassinations in Iraq aren’t terribly surprising. Foreign armies…

In Baghdad, Barwiz Muhammad Mahmoud al-Merani was shot to death along with his son. Al-Merani was slated to serve on the tribunal that will prosecute Saddam…

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Commentary

No Fools Allowed

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

With this week’s publication we intend to make our best efforts to include this column in on a weekly basis. Avid reader, Leutisha Stills has been waiting in Oakland, California for the return of this column. I hope you will revive “No Fools Allowed” one day because if you do, I want to comment on…

With this week's publication we intend to make our best efforts to include this column in on a weekly basis. Avid reader, Leutisha Stills has been…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Millions Still Can’t Vote

By Ryan Paul Haygood Guest Commentator

The tragic, history-making events of “Bloody Sunday,” on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, ultimately freed the vote for millions of African Americans. Forty years later, as we reflect on the march that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we are also reminded that more than two million African Americans continue…

The tragic, history-making events of “Bloody Sunday,” on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, ultimately freed the vote for millions of African Americans. Forty years later,…

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Guest Commentary

PBS Says American Slavery was Natural

By Jonathan Scott Guest Commentator

For those interested in an alternative history of American slavery, the first installment of PBS’s new four-hour series, “Slavery and the Making of America” (February 9 and 16) began on a promising note. The first American bond-laborers, we are shown in vivid color and told by narrator Morgan Freeman, were a rather mixed group: English,…

For those interested in an alternative history of American slavery, the first installment of PBS’s new four-hour series, “Slavery and the Making of America” (February 9…

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Commentary

Not Waving but Drowning

By John Maxwell

“So, on this page, we’d like to make a first step. As Comrade Stalin said, one death is a human tragedy, one million is a statistic. Decimation by AIDS Last week the UNAIDS program announced that nearly 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the next 20 years if more is not done…

“So, on this page, we'd like to make a first step. As Comrade Stalin said, one death is a human tragedy, one million is a statistic.…

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Commentary

Racial Equity Report Card Flunks Schwarzenegger

By Libero Della Piana

This article originally appeared in RaceWire, a service of ColorLines magazine. California is one of a growing number of U.S. states that have a majority people of color population. According to the California Department of Finance some 61% of the state will be people of color within six years. Today one-in-four Californians are foreign-born; by…

This article originally appeared in RaceWire, a service of ColorLines magazine. California is one of a growing number of U.S. states that have a majority people…

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