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November 16, 2006

Guest Commentary

Gay Marriage Is Not The Threat To Black America

By Jasmyne Cannick Columnist

As a Black activist who also happens to be a lesbian, my fight has been resolute not to mainstream homosexuality as some critics wrongly and slanderously maintain, but to promote respect for and tolerance toward those with diverse sexual preferences. Look around you. There’s no place that we go where we don’t see lesbian, gay,…

As a Black activist who also happens to be a lesbian, my fight has been resolute not to mainstream homosexuality as some critics wrongly and slanderously…

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Commentary

National Affairs: Let Us Now Throw Rumsfeld Under The Bus

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

To those who are familiar with this writer’s contempt for Donald Rumsfeld, it will come as a shock that this commentary will, in one way, support him. Rumsfeld should have been gotten rid of years ago. He has messed up for a long time. But in the last analysis it is not Rumsfeld who is…

To those who are familiar with this writer's contempt for Donald Rumsfeld, it will come as a shock that this commentary will, in one way, support…

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Guest Commentary

Education: An Afrikan World View

By HAWK (J. D. Jackson) Guest Commentator

The great Afro-Puerto Rican historian and bibliophile, Arthur A. Schomburg, was absolutely right when he wrote, “History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.” One thing that history can restore and that not even the savagery of slavery totally took…

The great Afro-Puerto Rican historian and bibliophile, Arthur A. Schomburg, was absolutely right when he wrote, “History must restore what slavery took away, for it is…

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Commentary

Between The Lines: Republicans Out, One Warhawk Down

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The election results didn’t shock anybody but the Democrats. They had gotten so used to the Republicans sticking it to them at the last minute that they were afraid to predict that the political tide had turned. After all, how much damage can one party do to a distressed and depressed nation? Distressed over the…

The election results didn’t shock anybody but the Democrats. They had gotten so used to the Republicans sticking it to them at the last minute that…

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Commentary

Worrill’s World: Reparations and Economic Independence

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The evidence is clear that African people throughout the world are owed reparations for the damages inflicted on us through the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, which has now been officially declared “A Crime Against Humanity!” In our demands for reparations in the United States, we must continue to pressure the government and those identifiable corporations…

The evidence is clear that African people throughout the world are owed reparations for the damages inflicted on us through the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, which…

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Cover Story

A Strategy For Seeking A National Single-Payer Healthcare System

By Marilyn Clement

“The Time is Now.” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting, November 12, 2006, in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16 states joined in thinking about how to push forward for a single-payer national healthcare system in the United States in a marathon 10-hour strategy session. Healthcare-NOW is a bottom…

“The Time is Now.” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting, November 12, 2006, in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16…

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