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Issue: 211

December 21, 2006

Cover Story

Empire, Racism and Resistance

By Dr. Manning Marable, PhD Editorial Board

(4) and an analysis of the prospects for transnational racial and class resistance to both global apartheid and America’s “New Racial Domain.” In 1900, the great African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, predicted that the “problem of the twentieth century” would be the “problem of the color line,” the unequal relationship between the lighter versus darker…

(4) and an analysis of the prospects for transnational racial and class resistance to both global apartheid and America’s “New Racial Domain.” In 1900, the great…

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Commentary

Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 4 – How to Organize

By Georgette Kareithi

This semester I had the privilege and challenge of organizing a Healthcare-NOW! campus group at City University of New York’s Brooklyn College. This task was much more complex than I anticipated, however I learned many valuable skills that will help me to organize students and other community members in the future. I will be discussing…

This semester I had the privilege and challenge of organizing a Healthcare-NOW! campus group at City University of New York’s Brooklyn College. This task was much…

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Commentary

Blood Diamond – A Film Review

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

I went to this film with high expectations. It is touted as a part of the growing genre of socially conscious Hollywood productions that have a positive message. In this case the message is that our frivolous attachment to the world’s most expensive gems is one that fuels violence and friction in desperate and impoverished…

I went to this film with high expectations. It is touted as a part of the growing genre of socially conscious Hollywood productions that have a…

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Guest Commentary

Can Obama Become the Person Some of Us Envision?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Allow people to be themselves has become a manta of sorts. Just be yourself seems to have trumped the slogan, be like Mike. Or has it? Be yourself or be like someone else? Be like Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a Euro-American mother, is not exactly a slogan in the U.S.—yet. But…

Allow people to be themselves has become a manta of sorts. Just be yourself seems to have trumped the slogan, be like Mike. Or has it?…

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Commentary

Between The Lines: Black Leadership Succession – Same Question, New Generation

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

A recent commentary by a fellow editorialist, querying who speaks for the black community (and in which order), raises a recurring question that has plagued every black community throughout the nation. This twenty-something year old commentator, as bold as she is, works for an 80 year old elected official (who recently announced that he was…

A recent commentary by a fellow editorialist, querying who speaks for the black community (and in which order), raises a recurring question that has plagued every…

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Commentary

Worrill’s World: Correcting White Supremacy Distortions

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Part of our repair in the Reparations Movement is to correct blatant white supremacy distortions of history— Case in point: Egypt Belongs To Africa! Up until recent years, there had been a scholarly debate among European intellectuals, joined by some Blacks, on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient Egypt. What this question…

Part of our repair in the Reparations Movement is to correct blatant white supremacy distortions of history— Case in point: Egypt Belongs To Africa! Up until…

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Commentary

The Hawk’s Nest: The African World Family – Part 1

By HAWK (J. D. Jackson) Guest Commentator

(Previously published, in the historic but now-defunct Birmingham World, established in 1930 and Alabama’s oldest Black weekly, in its February 15-21, 1996 issue) Contrary to popular belief, African (Black) people are not a minority; they are majority on the world scene. Totaling over one billion people world-wide, they are arguably, to paraphrase the late world-renown…

(Previously published, in the historic but now-defunct Birmingham World, established in 1930 and Alabama’s oldest Black weekly, in its February 15-21, 1996 issue) Contrary to popular…

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