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Issue: 231

May 24, 2007

Commentary

Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 20: “Sicko” A Contrast of What Is and What Could Be

By Marilyn Clement

There is good news on the horizon and it has to do with getting quality, guaranteed healthcare for every person in the United States – from womb to tomb. Michael Moore’s new film SICKO will dramatize the problem of healthcare in America – graphically demonstrating why our country is ranked #38 in the provision of…

There is good news on the horizon and it has to do with getting quality, guaranteed healthcare for every person in the United States - from…

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Commentary

Represent Our Resistance: Madison Wisconsin – Where Progressives Fear The Unfamiliar

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

I think people believe I am lucky to live in Madison, Wisconsin. After all, it is the home of a “progressive” movement that is the mother of all progressive movements, they tell me. But somehow I am not encouraged by this movement here. I have had to re-examine the definition of a progressive. I have…

I think people believe I am lucky to live in Madison, Wisconsin. After all, it is the home of a “progressive” movement that is the mother…

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Commentary

Keeping It Real: The Importance Of Collectively Defining Ourselves

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

There is an African parable about a young child who perceptively asks his or her parents, “If the lions are the king of jungle, why are they so often captured and killed by humans?” The parents smile and wisely respond, “When the lions learn to speak for themselves, think for themselves, and define themselves, then…

There is an African parable about a young child who perceptively asks his or her parents, "If the lions are the king of jungle, why are…

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Commentary

Between The Lines: What’s The Greater Obstacle To Black Progress

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The Great (great) Frederick Douglass, once said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Malcolm said, “We struggle in different ways” talking about the similarities between integrationist (access) and nationalist (identity) struggles for progress. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young once said, “We will struggle and there will be progress,” while former South…

The Great (great) Frederick Douglass, once said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Malcolm said, “We struggle in different ways” talking about the…

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Commentary

Worrill’s World: Reparations, African Liberation Day and Malcolm X

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The Reparations Movement is intensifying throughout the African World Community. Increasingly, the masses of African people in America, Africa, and the Caribbean are actively supporting the demand for reparations as a vehicle to seek repair for the damages inflicted upon African people in the past and their continuing vestiges. It is in this spirit that…

The Reparations Movement is intensifying throughout the African World Community. Increasingly, the masses of African people in America, Africa, and the Caribbean are actively supporting the…

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Guest Commentary

The South African Presidential Debate: A Market Taliban Versus A Populist Taliban

By Andile Mngxitama Guest Commentator

Developments around the presidential succession debate in South Africa have brought to the fore, at least on the analytical plain, two main contending forces. These forces are symbolically represented in the persons of President Thabo Mbeki on the one hand and his former Deputy Jacob Zuma on the other. For lack of a useful coinage,…

Developments around the presidential succession debate in South Africa have brought to the fore, at least on the analytical plain, two main contending forces. These forces…

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Commentary

Why You Should Support the Black Commentator

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Too many of us take it for granted. We assume that this great on-line magazine – BlackCommentator.com – will be here forever. I have seen this happen before. I have seen great on-line magazines that received thousands of hits per month disappear because of one thing: the hits were not matched by financial contributions. Only…

Too many of us take it for granted. We assume that this great on-line magazine - BlackCommentator.com - will be here forever. I have seen this…

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