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July 19, 2007

Cover Story

GWB, Africa and a New African American General

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

“In between panels, I ran into Colin Powell and asked him if we are ever going to get out of Iraq,” Arianna Huffington wrote on July 2006 in a report from the Aspen Ideas Festival. ’We are,’ he told me, ‘but we’re not going to leave behind anything we like because we are in the…

“In between panels, I ran into Colin Powell and asked him if we are ever going to get out of Iraq,” Arianna Huffington wrote on July…

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Commentary

Inclusion: Black Community’s Throw-away Kids

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

We have a crisis in the African American community: an epidemic of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth. And they need our help. And like the AIDS epidemic ravaging the African American community my folks are not addressing this problem too. Of course, airing the problem publicly will be viewed by many…

We have a crisis in the African American community: an epidemic of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth. And they need our help.…

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Commentary

Color of Law: Barking Up the Human Rights Tree

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The current issue is always free to everyone “They keep you wrapped up in civil rights. And you spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don’t even know there’s a human-rights tree on the same floor. When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take…

The current issue is always free to everyone "They keep you wrapped up in civil rights. And you spend so much time barking up the civil-rights…

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Commentary

Keeping It Real: Waving The Flag And Losing Their Minds

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Perhaps the most insane aspect of America as a nation is its propensity for constant denial of the obvious. America has taken mythology and spun it into an unrivaled web of internal and external deception and hypocrisy resulting in unending and unparalleled bloodshed. Thus, the President of the United States can, with a straight face,…

Perhaps the most insane aspect of America as a nation is its propensity for constant denial of the obvious. America has taken mythology and spun it…

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Commentary

Represent Our Resistance: Waging War Everywhere – Good Reason to Impeach!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The impeachment crisis of 1998 was serious! President William Clinton engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky – not in 1998 but sometime after he took office. In September, 1998, after Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr had been conducting a Grand Jury on the issue for what seemed ages, he filed a report with Congress. For…

The impeachment crisis of 1998 was serious! President William Clinton engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky - not in 1998 but sometime after he took…

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Commentary

Vicki Garvin, African-American Activist, Dies at 91

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Note: This is the first appearance of the BC In Struggle Spotlight column. We have been thinking about such a feature for some time. Last week’s Keeping It Real column by Larry Pinkney which put the life work of Lynne Stewart And Ralph Poynter in the spotlight provided the inspiration to get going on this…

Note: This is the first appearance of the BC In Struggle Spotlight column. We have been thinking about such a feature for some time. Last week's…

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