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Art Forms: Lantern of Liberty – Harriet Tubman – Issue 71
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Issue: 13
October 3, 2002
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BET’s Black Billionaire Trojan Horse
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Bob Johnson, the Black Entertainment Television founder with a personal net worth of $1.3 billion, is a Trojan Horse, an aggressive political operative of the Bush White House posing as a Democrat. He has used his high profile status as one-half of all African American billionaires (the determinedly non-partisan Oprah Winfrey is the other half)…
Bob Johnson, the Black Entertainment Television founder with a personal net worth of $1.3 billion, is a Trojan Horse, an aggressive political operative of the Bush…
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Black Children Still Victimized by “Savage Inequalities”
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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling, throwing wide the door to wholesale privatization of public education in the United States, Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities re-emerges as required reading for everyone concerned with urban schools and the meaning of citizenship. The 1991 classic presents a clear and principled argument in defense of…
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling, throwing wide the door to wholesale privatization of public education in the United States, Jonathan Kozol's…
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E-Mailbox Issue 13
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I read your website with interest as often as I can. While I do not always agree with what you say, sometimes you hit the nail on the head…. We [black folks] cannot continue to allow any one group, whether it is the Democratic Leadership Council, Republicans, or even the Congressional Black Caucus, to continue…
I read your website with interest as often as I can. While I do not always agree with what you say, sometimes you hit the nail…
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Letter to Readers Issue 13
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Dear Reader, The only thing Black that wants to go to war with Iraq is Condoleezza Rice, and she has told too many lies to be taken seriously. One wonders if Colin Powell, who is brilliant, will ever muster the courage to quit mouthing the foul script, and say the words he knows to be…
Dear Reader, The only thing Black that wants to go to war with Iraq is Condoleezza Rice, and she has told too many lies to be…
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