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March 17, 2005

Cover Story

Why We Can’t Trust Harold Ford Jr

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Tennessee Republican luminaries grumbled that they couldn’t get enough tickets to Memphis’s Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, last Friday’s stop on George Bush’s Social Security privatization tour. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, a GOP U.S. Senate hopeful whose district includes parts of suburban Memphis, failed to appear at her president’s show, claiming she missed her flight…

Tennessee Republican luminaries grumbled that they couldn’t get enough tickets to Memphis’s Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, last Friday’s stop on George Bush’s Social Security…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Uncle Toms and Turncoats

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

America has no shortage of sell outs and traitors. We are awash in good-for-nothing sell out colored preachers. Traitorous Democrats in Congress help corporations enslave us through an atrocious bankruptcy bill. The media sell us out every day when they choose to tell us all about the latest celebrity divorce but ignore the Bush meltdown…

America has no shortage of sell outs and traitors. We are awash in good-for-nothing sell out colored preachers. Traitorous Democrats in Congress help corporations enslave us…

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Commentary

No Fools Allowed

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Naming names and the red carpet is always on Black Trojan Horse alert. We are also proud that our activist readership doesn’t miss a beat. Here’s a message from a reader called Doches. Don’t you think that it is time to call names, before these people are in power? I read your article, looking for…

Naming names and the red carpet is always on Black Trojan Horse alert. We are also proud that our activist readership doesn't miss a beat. Here’s…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Thirty-seven Years of Non-Struggle Misleadership

By James A. Warren

After hearing as much as I can stomach from Bill Cosby and his like-minded defenders I have to say something or I’ll burst with frustration. Cosby’s views are the views of a significant layer of the Black middle class, as well as Black elected officials, and leaders of the nonexistent civil rights movement. If you…

After hearing as much as I can stomach from Bill Cosby and his like-minded defenders I have to say something or I’ll burst with frustration. Cosby’s…

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Commentary

PBS Slavery and The Making of America – Producer Responds to Critique

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

In the March 10, 2005 issue of , Dr. Jonathan Scott criticized the recent PBS series, Slavery and The Making of America for failing to mention Bacon’s Rebellion, the 1676 revolt of European and Black bondsmen in the Virginia colony. We present this response from the series’ producer, Emmy Award-winning Black filmmaker Danté Josef James.…

In the March 10, 2005 issue of , Dr. Jonathan Scott criticized the recent PBS series, Slavery and The Making of America for failing to mention…

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Commentary

Wal-Mart: Race to the Bottom

By Liza Featherstone

This article originally appeared in The Nation. “Wal-Mart is working for everyone,” read the newspaper ad, which ran in January in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. “Some of our critics are working only for themselves.” The same day, the company launched walmartfacts.com, a website to…

This article originally appeared in The Nation. "Wal-Mart is working for everyone," read the newspaper ad, which ran in January in more than 100 newspapers nationwide,…

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Commentary

Slices of Black Life: Racial Profiling at JCPenney

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

A Consumer Racial Profiling complaint filed in July, 2003, in the Western District of New York against J.C. Penney by Nakiesha Jones, an African-American woman of Buffalo, New York, alleges that JCPenney store security personnel Nicholas A. Goodwin and Paul Meerboth, pursuant to JCPenney policy, engaged in racial profiling and video surveillance of her for…

A Consumer Racial Profiling complaint filed in July, 2003, in the Western District of New York against J.C. Penney by Nakiesha Jones, an African-American woman of…

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