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April 20, 2006

Cover Story

‘New Orleans is our Gettysburg’-A Generation’s Defining Event

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This Saturday’s elections in New Orleans represent yet another element of the vast crime committed against Black America. With as many as 300,000 residents, overwhelmingly African American, strewn about the country in government-engineered exile, the elections are an insult to the very idea of democracy, and to the dignity of all Black people. This farcical…

This Saturday’s elections in New Orleans represent yet another element of the vast crime committed against Black America. With as many as 300,000 residents, overwhelmingly African…

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Commentary

A BC Dire Sraits Update, Thank You and Future Plans

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

For those of our readers who have so far chosen not to financially support BC, consider this comment we received from a BC Paid Subscriber, after the appeal we made in March: I was shocked and appalled when I read the “Voice of the Paid Subscriber” and saw that “hundreds” had subscribed rather than “thousands.”…

For those of our readers who have so far chosen not to financially support BC, consider this comment we received from a BC Paid Subscriber, after…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: America’s Last Days

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Does George W. Bush have the numbers 6, 6, and 6 tattooed on his head? In recent years it has become popular for every calamity, natural or man made, to be ascribed to the end times, the last days, Armageddon. If the end is near, the nation most responsible is the United States of America.…

Does George W. Bush have the numbers 6, 6, and 6 tattooed on his head? In recent years it has become popular for every calamity, natural…

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Commentary

New Orleans Elections Fever

By Jordan Flaherty

This article originally appeared in LeftTurn. The coming days will bring another step towards the new New Orleans. On April 22, voters in the city (absentee and in-state satellite voting began last week) will choose between 22 mayoral candidates, as well as sheriff, city council, and other positions. If no candidate in a race receives…

This article originally appeared in LeftTurn. The coming days will bring another step towards the new New Orleans. On April 22, voters in the city (absentee…

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Guest Commentary

Back from New Orleans

By Nzingha Tyehemba Guest Commentator

After a week spent volunteering in New Orleans, I left overcome with two feelings: one, of the converging influences of racism, classism and capitalism preventing a just rebuilding process; and two, of the way my college delicately skirts challenging these forms of oppression. I journeyed to New Orleans from Selma, AL with 165 other students,…

After a week spent volunteering in New Orleans, I left overcome with two feelings: one, of the converging influences of racism, classism and capitalism preventing a…

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Commentary

Bruce’s Beat

By Bruce Dixon Editor

In BC’s April 6 Think Piece “Race, Place and Freedom”, Professor Paul Street recounted what he called his most depressing classroom experience. “It took place in the tragic aftermath of what I sometimes call ‘Tropical Storm and Societal Failure Katrina.’ Only days before, the nation had been treated to a series of graphic televised images…

In BC's April 6 Think Piece "Race, Place and Freedom", Professor Paul Street recounted what he called his most depressing classroom experience. "It took place in…

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Commentary

Radio BC: Separate Racial Districts for Omaha Schools?

By Glen Ford Co-Publisher & Executive Editor

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page Unless the courts intervene, the public schools of Omaha, Nebraska may one day soon be divided into three ethnically distinct districts. Whites, Blacks and Hispanics would each have their own separate school districts, under a bill passed by the state legislature and signed…

Listen Now: Windows Media Format or MP3 Format Radio BC Master Page Unless the courts intervene, the public schools of Omaha, Nebraska may one day soon…

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Art: Queen Mother

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Art: Queen Mother

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

How the Media Uses Blacks to Chastise Blacks: The Colored Mind-Doubles

By Ishmael Reed

The article originally appeared in Counterpunch.org. I Tivo Don Imus as much as I can because his putrid racist offerings are said to represent the secret thinking of the Cognoscenti. Maybe that’s why journalists like Jeff Greenfield and others admire him so much. He says what they think in private. On any day, you might…

The article originally appeared in Counterpunch.org. I Tivo Don Imus as much as I can because his putrid racist offerings are said to represent the secret…

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