Issue: 22
December 26, 2002
Commentary
Three Kings Bearing Gifts
Guest Commentator
The interim between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a time for reassessment, a lull in life’s short march during which we resolve to patch up what has gone wrong, and make more permanent that which has gone right. Symbols help us in our contemplations. For the evaluative purposes of this essay, we will employ…
The interim between Christmas and New Year's Day is a time for reassessment, a lull in life's short march during which we resolve to patch up…
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Commentary
Hip Hop and the Hard Right
Guest Commentator
This article was first published in the Winter edition of ColorLines magazine, now on newsstands. The historical foes of Black America are engaged in a new and multi-layered strategy to subvert the general political consensus that has prevailed among Blacks since the dramatic death rattles of official Jim Crow, in the mid and late Sixties.…
This article was first published in the Winter edition of ColorLines magazine, now on newsstands. The historical foes of Black America are engaged in a new…
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Commentary
e-MailBox
Guest Commentator
Poor Trent Lott – disowned. The GOP has wrapped him in his own soiled blanket and dropped the orphan in the back alleyways of history, claiming they never knew the boy. Trent, who? say Republicans, as they wave a dirty rag, claiming to have wiped the slate clean. The GOP’s faith-based funding juggernaut will resume…
Poor Trent Lott - disowned. The GOP has wrapped him in his own soiled blanket and dropped the orphan in the back alleyways of history, claiming…
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Commentary
Briefs
Guest Commentator
The only thing black George Bush wants to deal with in January is Iraqi oil. What with his Trent Lott troubles, Bush is all Blacked-out. That’s the general assessment of Africa Action executive director Salih Booker, responding to the White House decision to postpone the President’s January 10 – 17 trip to Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya,…
The only thing black George Bush wants to deal with in January is Iraqi oil. What with his Trent Lott troubles, Bush is all Blacked-out. That's…
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Commentary
African Venezuelans fear new U.S. coup against President Chavez
Guest Commentator
This article appeared in the Venezuela and Chavez Watch page of Trinicenter.com. This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have total control of their historic Black university, the Instituto Universitario Barlovento. They are already planning a university administered hotel and a restaurant for students, faculty and the community. This…
This article appeared in the Venezuela and Chavez Watch page of Trinicenter.com. This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have…
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