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Issue: 223

March 29, 2007

Commentary

Inclusion: McMillan Pummels Plummer for Being Gay

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

“The Interruption of Everything”, the title of Terry McMillan’s latest book, happened when this best-selling author of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”, not only filed for divorce, but also sued her Jamaican boyfriend-turned-husband, Jonathan Plummer, who inspired the blockbuster hit of the same title. Plummer, as it turned out, is gay. Refuting allegations that…

“The Interruption of Everything”, the title of Terry McMillan’s latest book, happened when this best-selling author of “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”, not only filed…

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Commentary

Beneath The Spin: Let’s Get Over It “Racism That Is” – Part Two, Diagnosing Whiteness

By Molly Secours Guest Commentator

Although racism exists everywhere, the form in which we experience it in the U.S. requires us to examine the “illness” of the founding fathers to understand ourselves. In order to justify brutalizing and enslaving an entire race of people, our historical “heroes” collectively convinced themselves that the non-whites being “imported” from Africa and the Indigenous…

Although racism exists everywhere, the form in which we experience it in the U.S. requires us to examine the “illness” of the founding fathers to understand…

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Commentary

Between The Lines: Problems Blacks Can’t Escape From

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The more the African American community tries to analyze how to pull itself up from the grips of despair, the more it opens itself up to greater criticism. It’s is more difficult to have a public conversation without those who either exploit black crisis or enjoy commenting on the state of the black crisis, as…

The more the African American community tries to analyze how to pull itself up from the grips of despair, the more it opens itself up to…

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Commentary

National Affairs: Birmingham and Baghdad: The South In 1963 and the United States in 2007

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

I shall once again quote a long passage from The Race Beat, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. This time the quote is of a quote that they quoted. It is a column written by Gene Patterson, then the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, after four little girls were killed in the bombing of a…

I shall once again quote a long passage from The Race Beat, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. This time the quote is of a quote…

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Guest Commentary

Statement of Protest Concerning the Unreasonable Bail for The San Francisco 8

By Three Former-Panthers Guest Commentator

The San Francisco 8 are being held in de facto terms with NO bail. Reducing a so-called bail from five million to three million dollars is like stealing a body from a grave and claiming that it was not theft because the victim did not resist! It is utterly absurd, and it is an insult…

The San Francisco 8 are being held in de facto terms with NO bail. Reducing a so-called bail from five million to three million dollars is…

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Commentary

Worrill’s World: Why I Stand with Alderman Tillman

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Against all the forces attempting to stop change, progress, and the redevelopment of the Third Ward, I Stand With Alderman Tillman! In the April 17, 2007 run off aldermanic election in Chicago’s historic Third Ward, I wholeheartedly, and unequivocally, stand with and support the reelection of Alderman Dorothy Tillman. She has for over twenty-three years…

Against all the forces attempting to stop change, progress, and the redevelopment of the Third Ward, I Stand With Alderman Tillman! In the April 17, 2007…

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Guest Commentary

Why Black Folk Should Care About the U.S. Attorney Controversy

By Dr. G. Derek Musgrove, PhD Guest Commentator

Here we go again. Another story told nearly to death by the 24 hour news services. I am, of course talking about the Justice Department firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, one in June and seven in December 2006. Since the start of the year, buzz about possible political motivations for the firings, whether or not…

Here we go again. Another story told nearly to death by the 24 hour news services. I am, of course talking about the Justice Department firing…

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