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Issue: 153

October 6, 2005

Cover Story

Where the Left Lives – Black America is the Core

By Bruce Dixon Editor

”African Americans are and have always been, in fact, clumped together on the left side of the conventional American political spectrum. An objective reading of the JCPES survey confirms some of the underlying basis for Blacks’ liberal voting patterns – which is long term bad news for the Right and self-styled Black conservatives. Still, this…

”African Americans are and have always been, in fact, clumped together on the left side of the conventional American political spectrum. An objective reading of the…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Bill Bennett’s Fantasy – Freak in Life, Demon in Imagination

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Comedian Richard Pryor posed a question about how and whether America saw black people in its future. He noted that futuristic science fiction films rarely if ever had black characters. Was this absence a creative oversight or were we being given a hint? Hollywood invariably presents the fantasies and desires of white Americans, particularly those…

Comedian Richard Pryor posed a question about how and whether America saw black people in its future. He noted that futuristic science fiction films rarely if…

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Commentary

Think Piece: Bill Bennett and Other Runaway Ideologues

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Former Education Secretary, William Bennett’s comments last week, tying the crime rate dropping to giving every black woman an abortion (his quote exactly; “But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that was your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and…

Former Education Secretary, William Bennett’s comments last week, tying the crime rate dropping to giving every black woman an abortion (his quote exactly; “But I do…

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Commentary

After the Deluge: How Do Blacks Get to the Table?

By Earl Picard, Ph.D

I am a native of New Orleans. Like so many in that city, I grew up in poverty with my family shuttling between several of the downtown housing projects (St. Bernard, Lafitte, Desire and Iberville). In 1965 when Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans we were living in the Ninth Ward which, almost singularly, experienced flooding…

I am a native of New Orleans. Like so many in that city, I grew up in poverty with my family shuttling between several of the…

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Commentary

‘Castaways’ Above the Fold

By Bernestine Singley

Ms. Singley wrote this article as a letter to the Dallas Morning News. I grew up without TV – the stupid box, my mother called it. Not only didn’t we own one, my sister and I were forbidden to watch it, anywhere, ever. Consequently, I survived life in the US for more than half a…

Ms. Singley wrote this article as a letter to the Dallas Morning News. I grew up without TV – the stupid box, my mother called it.…

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Commentary

An Evolution of Lies

By Harold M. Clemens Guest Commentator

While I was throwing out old newspapers recently, I stumbled upon a TV Weekly, or whatever it’s called, which had an illustration relevant to PBS’s special on Evolution as its cover, since that program was supposed to be the highlight of that week. When I saw it, it immediately reminded me of a qualm I’ve…

While I was throwing out old newspapers recently, I stumbled upon a TV Weekly, or whatever it’s called, which had an illustration relevant to PBS’s special…

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