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Issue: 141

June 9, 2005

Cover Story

Health Discrimination – A 21st Century Civil Rights Issue

By Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, PhD

Recent efforts by various groups to shift the U.S. health care system to one that provides health coverage for all should be of vital concern to African Americans, other racial and ethnic minorities, and lower income families. After all, it is in the area of healthcare where we can clearly see evidence of the “separate…

Recent efforts by various groups to shift the U.S. health care system to one that provides health coverage for all should be of vital concern to…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: John Conyers and Deep Throat

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Deep Throat was the anonymous source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break the Watergate story. For the past 30 years the identity and in some cases the very existence of Deep Throat has been called into question until Mark Felt recently revealed himself to be the mystery man. There have…

Deep Throat was the anonymous source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break the Watergate story. For the past 30 years the…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Debate Over the Future of the AFL-CIO – More Heat Than Light

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

A debate over the future of the AFL-CIO, the federation of most unions in the USA, has been underway for some months and, for the life of me, while the debate becomes more intense, the differences seem to blur. Yet, the feeling that one gets is that we are headed for a train wreck. The…

A debate over the future of the AFL-CIO, the federation of most unions in the USA, has been underway for some months and, for the life…

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Commentary

Slavery in the Third Millennium

By Randall G. Shelden

The winter, 2005 issue of Contexts (a leading sociology journal) featured a photo essay on the infamous Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas. One photo showed about twenty convicts in a field picking cotton, while a white guard stood over them. Another photo showed a tractor pulling about 8 carts filled with convicts returning from the…

The winter, 2005 issue of Contexts (a leading sociology journal) featured a photo essay on the infamous Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas. One photo showed about…

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Commentary

The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown v. Board of Education

By Ryan Paul Haygood Guest Commentator

In recognition of the fifty-first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a case often cited as the milestone in America’s march towards racial equality, I recently discussed the legacy of Brown with students at Bragaw Avenue School in Newark, New Jersey. I explained to the students that before…

In recognition of the fifty-first anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a case often cited as the milestone in…

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Commentary

The Legacy of the Bandung

By Norman (Otis) Richmond Guest Commentator

History will record two Bandung conferences. The one recently concluded, marking the golden jubilee of the first, and the one held in April 1955 at which 29 African and Asian nations met in Bandung, Indonesia to promote economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism. The idea of the Bandung Conference came from Ahmed Sukarno…

History will record two Bandung conferences. The one recently concluded, marking the golden jubilee of the first, and the one held in April 1955 at which…

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