Issue: 195

Commentary

What is BC Worth To You

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Really, what is BC worth to you? Is it worth about a $1 an issue to support the only site on the web devoted exclusively to commentary, analysis and investigations affecting African Americans? We know that for some of our readers, it is, and for that support, we are truly grateful. But here’s where it…

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Really, what is BC worth to you? Is it worth about a $1 an issue to support the only site on the web devoted exclusively to…

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Art

Art: Alas Poor Icarus

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Radio BC: Electoral Politics Must Become Movement Politics

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Cynthia McKinney will be leaving the United States Congress in early January of next year, having lost a Democratic primary runoff election to an obscure former county commissioner named Hank Johnson. Also arrayed against McKinney were the entire Atlanta, Georgia and national media. McKinney is anathema to those who insist that racism is a thing…

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Cynthia McKinney will be leaving the United States Congress in early January of next year, having lost a Democratic primary runoff election to an obscure former…

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Commentary

Think Piece: An unimaginable loss of life

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. bc Editorial Board

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As the actual events and details surrounding the alleged terrorist plot to blow up commercial airliners unfold, the fear and foreboding that has lived within many of us since 9/11 resurfaced. Yet, in the initial announcement of the alleged plot, there was a reference by a British official that caught my attention. Describing the alleged…

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As the actual events and details surrounding the alleged terrorist plot to blow up commercial airliners unfold, the fear and foreboding that has lived within many…

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Commentary

Where Were You When They Took Your Rights Away?

By David Swanson bc Guest Commentator

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Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation’s capital in protest? If you said the United States, you’ll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy…

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Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on…

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Commentary

AIDS in Black America

By Ralph Nader bc Guest Commentator

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This piece originally appeared in Counterpunch. George W. Bush-the master of fabricated distractions-as with the false pretense invasion of Iraq-has turned the national television news media away from the United States. So it was a sobering reversal of direction to watch ABC’s August 24th Primetime Special Edition “Out of Control: AIDS in Black America.” It…

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This piece originally appeared in Counterpunch. George W. Bush-the master of fabricated distractions-as with the false pretense invasion of Iraq-has turned the national television news media…

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Commentary

The Katrina Aftermath One Year: What are the Lessons Learnt?

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD bc Columnist

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One Year ago this week, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans head on (August 29th), and two days later (August 31st), the 17th Street Canel levee breached causing the 9th Ward and 80% of the city of New Orleans to flood. Some 1,800 people died. Surely, some from the force of the hurricane—but most from waiting…

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One Year ago this week, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans head on (August 29th), and two days later (August 31st), the 17th Street Canel levee breached…

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Cartoon

Cartoon: And Yet Another Promise from Dubya

By Mwandishi

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