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April 5, 2007

Cover Story

Obama – The “Joshua Generation” Candidate

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Rev. Jesse Jackson has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential campaign. I must say, I am a little ambivalent about this endorsement. We are a people who have clung to hope. Hope is what sustained us through enslavement and exploitation. Both men speak highly of hope. One, while pursuing the Democratic candidacy for president, inspired…

Rev. Jesse Jackson has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential campaign. I must say, I am a little ambivalent about this endorsement. We are a people…

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Commentary

April 3, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated. Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself,…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Commentary

Between The Lines: Finishing King’s Fight

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Last week I wrote a commentary on the problems Black’s can’t escape. The problems are largely socio-political in scope, some self-perpetuating while others are perpetuated by historical disparities. The inference that the problems of Black America were incalculable and inescapable was not lost on many of you (who responded in-kind through a bombardment of e-mails)…

Last week I wrote a commentary on the problems Black’s can’t escape. The problems are largely socio-political in scope, some self-perpetuating while others are perpetuated by…

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Commentary

A Milestone Birthday with Thanks to All BlackCommentator Readers

By Peter Gamble Publisher

This is the Fifth Anniversary edition of The Black Commentator, and we at BC salute you, our readers. You are a very special group of people. We know you are a special group, because we picked the first 20,000 or so of you, based on your political activism and influence, as we prepared to launch…

This is the Fifth Anniversary edition of The Black Commentator, and we at BC salute you, our readers. You are a very special group of people.…

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Commentary

Coalitions Between Blacks, Latinos, and Asians: A Retrospective

By Dr. James Jennings, PhD Editorial Board

The future of urban politics and resulting social policies will be colored significantly by the political posture that Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other communities of color have towards each other. Collectively, these groups now have the capacity to represent a major political factor in determining the kinds of public policies that are adopted by city,…

The future of urban politics and resulting social policies will be colored significantly by the political posture that Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other communities of color…

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Commentary

Left Margin: The Mortgage Crisis & Its “Ugly Geographic Pattern”

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Had the central bank stepped in earlier, it might have prevented the current subprime-mortgage meltdown by curbing lax lending standards, Federal Reserve’s chief bank supervisor, Roger T. Cole told a Senate hearing last week. “Given what we know now, yes, we could have done more, sooner,” he said. There’s a little problem with that; there…

Had the central bank stepped in earlier, it might have prevented the current subprime-mortgage meltdown by curbing lax lending standards, Federal Reserve’s chief bank supervisor, Roger…

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Commentary

Single Payer Healthcare – Part 15 – We Need Medicare for All

By Ajamu K. Sankofa, Esq

Can you imagine what life would be like today for old and/or impoverished Black folks, if they did not have both Medicare and Medicaid? Think about it. Over the past twenty-seven years, Black communities have been devastated by the triple public health assaults of AIDS, drugs, and violence, all orchestrated within the context of a…

Can you imagine what life would be like today for old and/or impoverished Black folks, if they did not have both Medicare and Medicaid? Think about…

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Commentary

A Jones For Justice: Enslaving Hearts and Minds

By Dr. John Calvin Jones, PhD, JD Columnist

Shocking and Awful A few weeks ago, while the Bush administration was fending off death due to another of its thousand cuts, the good soldier, General Peter Pace, made a public comment about homosexuality in general and homosexuals serving in the military in particular. During an interview, after analogizing homosexuality to adultery (i.e. a sexual…

Shocking and Awful A few weeks ago, while the Bush administration was fending off death due to another of its thousand cuts, the good soldier, General…

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