Issue: 161

Cartoon

Cartoon: Trickle Down Bankruptcy

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: Republican Sex Freaks

By Margaret Kimberley bc Guest Commentator

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What would the corporate media say if a powerful Democrat wrote a novel about children having sex with animals? Thanks to that party’s incompetence there aren’t any powerful Dems these days, but we can imagine the outcry. Fox News would have a week long expose on Democratic depravity. Potentate pundits would lament the Democrats inability…

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What would the corporate media say if a powerful Democrat wrote a novel about children having sex with animals? Thanks to that party’s incompetence there aren’t…

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Commentary

Which is the Black Oriented Media?

By Alex Walker bc Guest Commentator

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John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, passed away this summer at age 87. Mr. Johnson’s death generated a wave of genuine praise for the pioneering publisher. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a close Chicago friend of Mr. Johnson, said: The year 2005 has marked the passing of Rosa Parks, Constance Baker Motley, Vivian…

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John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, passed away this summer at age 87. Mr. Johnson’s death generated a wave of genuine praise for…

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Art

Art Form: Ester

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

‘Whiteness’ and Other Lies: An Interview with David Roediger

By Seth Sandronsky

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This interview originally appeared in Mrzine, the online site of the Monthly Review. David Roediger, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a scholar of critical whiteness studies, delivered a talk titled “The Dilemmas of Popular Front Antiracism: Looking at The House I Live In” on November 17 at the Marxist…

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This interview originally appeared in Mrzine, the online site of the Monthly Review. David Roediger, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and…

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Commentary

Storm Warnings for America’s Public Schools

By Paul A. Moore bc Guest Commentator

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The nearing storm is a creation of this nation’s wealthiest and most powerful corporate leaders. They are men who decided on their mission at the Business Roundtable’s education meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1989. They came down from that summit as the newly formed Business Coalition for Education Reform and carrying a message for their…

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The nearing storm is a creation of this nation’s wealthiest and most powerful corporate leaders. They are men who decided on their mission at the Business…

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Commentary

Voter Photo ID – Legislators Should Look Before They Leap

By Alaina C. Beverly

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State legislators are jumping on the voter identification bandwagon so quickly that these voter “integrity” initiatives have become a modern tool of voter suppression, much like poll taxes, white-only primaries, and grandfather clauses of the past. Whether deliberately or unknowingly, state legislatures are casually proposing measures that will have a devastating impact on poor, African-American…

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State legislators are jumping on the voter identification bandwagon so quickly that these voter "integrity" initiatives have become a modern tool of voter suppression, much like…

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Commentary

Interview with Katrina

By Rhone Fraser bc Guest Commentator

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Katrina: Oh I come from a long, line of folks. These people here in America, they bring me here. Myself: Could you describe “these people here in America”? Katrina: These people that’s turning up the heat on this whole place. I don’t know why they don’t work with everybody else to stop makin’ it so…

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Katrina: Oh I come from a long, line of folks. These people here in America, they bring me here. Myself: Could you describe "these people here…

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