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Cartoon: Harold Ford, Jr. Slanders His Grandmother’s Name
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Issue: 177
March 16, 2006
Cover Story
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. Insults His Grandmother and Our People
Publishers
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his great-grandparents, by claiming that their lives were frauds and lies – that they were whites passing for Black. There seem to be no limits to the young congressman’s perfidy…
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his…
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Commentary
Freedom Rider: Liberal Love for Right Wing Cory Booker
Guest Commentator
Do liberals love the Manhattan Institute? Do they favor the use of vouchers to take resources from public schools? Are they fans of the Wal-Mart Walton family? The answer to those questions is usually an unqualified no. Why then do liberals adore Cory Booker? Cory Booker made a name for himself four years ago when…
Do liberals love the Manhattan Institute? Do they favor the use of vouchers to take resources from public schools? Are they fans of the Wal-Mart Walton…
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Bruce’s Beat
Editor
Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same federal legislation that brought at least three hundred thousand into the streets of Chicago two weeks earlier, and smaller crowds in dozens of other cities. As this article is…
Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same…
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Commentary
Radio BC: The Insanity of Black Anti-Immigrant Politics
Co-Publisher & Executive Editor
African Americans have no stake in nativist whites’ desire to keep the US of A white. We do have a stake in influencing the political behavior of Latino immigrants, with whom we must negotiate for control of the cities. It is a fool’s game to side with the enemy in this historic encounter. We know…
African Americans have no stake in nativist whites' desire to keep the US of A white. We do have a stake in influencing the political behavior…
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Guest Commentary
A Rage of Disenfranchisement
Guest Commentator
In his lifetime, Mr. Richard Gooden, a retired steel worker of 42 years, has been denied the right to vote twice by the State of Alabama. He was first deprived of his voting rights in the early 1960s during a dark period in Alabama’s history when Black voter registration was made virtually impossible by the…
In his lifetime, Mr. Richard Gooden, a retired steel worker of 42 years, has been denied the right to vote twice by the State of Alabama.…
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Commentary
Think Piece: Race Dialogue Is Back, But…Did Racism Ever Go Away?
Columnist
America is talking about race again. With Crash winning the Oscars and Ice Cube co-producing a series on race called Black/White on FX, race dialogue is back! But did racism ever go away? Or did it just change forms and go underground? It has been well documented over the past five years (since the turn…
America is talking about race again. With Crash winning the Oscars and Ice Cube co-producing a series on race called Black/White on FX, race dialogue is…
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Guest Commentary
Malcolm and Martin: The Struggle Continues
Guest Commentator
Recently I was helping my mother clean out her closets and get rid of old boxes. During the flurry of trashing old papers and reliving cherished memories Mother came upon a postcard that her late sister, my favorite aunt, kept in her office when she was a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The postcard…
Recently I was helping my mother clean out her closets and get rid of old boxes. During the flurry of trashing old papers and reliving cherished…
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