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Issue: 135

April 21, 2005

Cover Story

Black Caucus Losing Cohesion – It’s Time to Draw Some ‘Bright Lines’

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The corporate Right has succeeded in establishing a “coalition of the willing” within the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), as shown by last week’s votes on bankruptcy and estate tax legislation. The defection of ten of 41 voting CBC members to the Republicans on bankruptcy, and eight on repeal of the estate tax signals that corporate-controlled…

The corporate Right has succeeded in establishing a “coalition of the willing” within the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), as shown by last week’s votes on bankruptcy…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Fascism – Are We There Yet?

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so an advertising slogan is in order. “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.” The United States government is now proposing that the roach treatment be meted out to…

Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so…

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Commentary

Probing the Black Elite’s Role for the 21st Century (Part Three)

By Dr. Martin Kilson Editorial Board

Click to view larger and printer friendly table Source: U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine (2005) Reprinted in The Washington Afro-American (January 15,2005). Black Enterprise (February 2005). It should also be mentioned that Black Enterprise (February 2005) presented career biographies, in the words of its publisher Earl Graves, of “75 [African-American] men and women…

Click to view larger and printer friendly table Source: U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine (2005) Reprinted in The Washington Afro-American (January 15,2005). Black Enterprise…

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Art Form: Rah Rah - Haitian Musicians

Art

Art Form: Rah Rah – Haitian Musicians

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Rah Rah Haitian Musicians Rah Rah (Haitian Musicians) CANVAS Giclee, Archival Quality UNFRAMED Size: 32″W x 12.5″H Edition Size: 250 Signed & Numbered by the Artist Price: $225 USD Art for the New Millennium African American Folk Art Mari Hall ~ Artist www.marizart.com Represented by BlackCommentator.com What is a Giclee? A Giclee (pronounced Zhee-Clay) is…

Rah Rah Haitian Musicians Rah Rah (Haitian Musicians) CANVAS Giclee, Archival Quality UNFRAMED Size: 32"W x 12.5"H Edition Size: 250 Signed & Numbered by the Artist…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Is Condi Rice President Bush’s Pet Negro?

By Mark P. Fancher Guest Commentator

One African cultural attribute that lives on in this country’s Black community is the unlimited willingness of the village to attempt to defend and protect its own. Back in 1984, personalities as diverse as Vanessa Williams and Louis Farrakhan became targets of the larger society for wildly different reasons. Williams, as the first Black Miss…

One African cultural attribute that lives on in this country’s Black community is the unlimited willingness of the village to attempt to defend and protect its…

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Commentary

An African in Canada

By Charles Kinyua Ruthari

How do you feel when you go to a party full of strangers? How do you feel when all these strangers are white and you are the only black person? If you live in Nairobi the likelihood of that happening is rather slim – just as slim as the chance of you waking up to…

How do you feel when you go to a party full of strangers? How do you feel when all these strangers are white and you are…

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Commentary

The passing of a legend: Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales

By Jorge Mariscal Guest Commentator

When in the summer of 1968 President Lyndon Johnson’s Attorney General stood up before an audience of Chicano, African American, Puerto Rican, American Indian, and poor white activists, he had no idea he was about to receive a knockout punch delivered by a former Mexican American flyweight contender. When the stocky man with a moustache…

When in the summer of 1968 President Lyndon Johnson’s Attorney General stood up before an audience of Chicano, African American, Puerto Rican, American Indian, and poor…

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