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Issue: 149

September 8, 2005

Cover Story

The Lowdown on the Downlow – Looking For HIV/AIDS in All the Wrong Places

By Bruce Dixon Editor

”The flawed logic often perpetuated by the media is that only homosexual men have HIV, bisexual men only contract HIV through homosexual behavior, and the only way black women contract HIV is through sexual contact with these bisexual men,” Malebranche said. “Homosexuals are not the only ones with HIV, and just because someone keeps their…

”The flawed logic often perpetuated by the media is that only homosexual men have HIV, bisexual men only contract HIV through homosexual behavior, and the only…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: New Orleans and the Demise of the Democrats

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

“They have M-16s and they’re locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so.” – Kathleen Blanco, Democratic Louisiana Governor “But I want to thank the president.” – Mary Landrieu, Democratic Louisiana Senator “…you and I are not in a position to make any…

“They have M-16s and they’re locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so.” –…

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Commentary

Unbearable Crime on the Mississippi

By Thulani Davis

When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson’s indignant cry, “This is the bottom of the slave ship we are looking at.” I think Jesse actually put his finger on what happened to all of us this week. Those shots we’ve seen are, as he said, the…

When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson's indignant cry, "This is the bottom of the slave ship…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Blasphemy About New Orleans – A God With Whom I am Not Familiar

By Tim Wise Guest Commentator

This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don’t know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we both ate this afternoon. I listened as you…

This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't…

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Commentary

America’s Pretenses Washed Away

By Scottie Lowe

Everyone has been affected by the news of Hurricane Katrina and it’s victims who happen to be largely of color. The media has made no attempt to hide its racist practices by portraying the economically disenfranchised Black people that live there, whose lives have been devastated and destroyed, as thugs, criminals, and lawless rouges while…

Everyone has been affected by the news of Hurricane Katrina and it’s victims who happen to be largely of color. The media has made no attempt…

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Commentary

People for the American Way Blasts Black ‘Front’ Group

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The following article originally appeared on the website of People for the American Way. On August 24, Project 21, an African American initiative of the right-wing National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), held a press conference along with other far-right African Americans and Hispanics, to convey the appearance of broad “minority support” for John…

The following article originally appeared on the website of People for the American Way. On August 24, Project 21, an African American initiative of the right-wing…

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Commentary

Wealth of West Built on Africa’s Exploitation

By Richard Drayton

This article was originally published in The Guardian, UK. Britain was the principal slaving nation of the modern world. In “The Empire Pays Back,” a documentary broadcast by Channel 4 [UK], Robert Beckford called on the British to take stock of this past. Why, he asked, had Britain made no apology for African slavery, as…

This article was originally published in The Guardian, UK. Britain was the principal slaving nation of the modern world. In “The Empire Pays Back,” a documentary…

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