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August 2, 2007

Cover Story

John Conyers: What Of Impeachment? – Keeping It Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It had been my intention to write on a different topic, but after reading Race is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement: John Conyers and Impeachment, by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., I felt compelled to write the following: There has been a bit of a buzz emanating for some time from certain quarters about impeaching…

It had been my intention to write on a different topic, but after reading Race is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement: John Conyers and Impeachment,…

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Cover Story

Race is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement – John Conyers and Impeachment

By the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr

Note: BlackCommentator columnist Larry Pinkney reacts to his article and those who are attacking Rep. John Conyers in this issue’s Keeping It Real column. On July 23, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern and I met with U.S. Rep. John Conyers about the issue of impeachment. We delivered a petition for impeachment with one million American signatures.…

Note: BlackCommentator columnist Larry Pinkney reacts to his article and those who are attacking Rep. John Conyers in this issue's Keeping It Real column. On July…

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Commentary

Denying Poverty Amid a ‘Looming Economic Crisis’ – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

That means more money, more soldiers and more ground forces — he suggests an increase of around 100,000 men and women. “A strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace,” he writes.” But Foreign Affairs is hardly daily reading in America’s poorest neighborhoods. The lack of education bemoaned by Obama, the social policy…

That means more money, more soldiers and more ground forces -- he suggests an increase of around 100,000 men and women. "A strong military is, more…

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Commentary

AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa

By Ezekiel Pajibo

The current issue is always free to everyone John Feffer was the editor of this article. Just two months after U.S. aerial bombardments began in Somalia, the Bush administration solidified its militaristic engagement with Africa. In February 2007, the Department of Defense announced the creation of a new U.S. Africa Command infrastructure, code name AFRICOM,…

The current issue is always free to everyone John Feffer was the editor of this article. Just two months after U.S. aerial bombardments began in Somalia,…

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Commentary

98th Annual NAACP Convention: The NAACP’s Battles Are Much the Same as 100 Years Ago

By Julian Bond Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Note: This is the complete text of a speech by BlackCommentator Editorial Board member Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors that was given at the NAACP’s 98th annual convention held this year at Cobo Hall in Detroit. To SCF Chairman Roy Levy Williams, Vice…

The current issue is always free to everyone Note: This is the complete text of a speech by BlackCommentator Editorial Board member Julian Bond, Chairman of…

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Commentary

The Media’s Problem With Black Lesbians – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation trigger a particular type of news broadcasting on the major networks. With their objective to provide viewers with “infotainment,” rather than fair and balanced reporting, discerning television viewers – straight and gay alike – are most often insulted by…

The current issue is always free to everyone Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation trigger a particular type of news broadcasting on the major…

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Commentary

“We” and “The Struggle” and Immobilizing Words – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone “In the thirteen years preceding Reaganomics, income inequality in the United States was shrinking. Social welfare programs, unions, labor laws, anti-discrimination laws and the like were raising the wealth of the lower income population, and progressive tax structures were redistributing wealth from the upper income brackets down,”…

The current issue is always free to everyone “In the thirteen years preceding Reaganomics, income inequality in the United States was shrinking. Social welfare programs, unions,…

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Commentary

“Hot Ghetto Mess”: BET’s Sambo Programming Should Be Criticized – Between The Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The current issue is always free to everyone The fallout of the grand announcement by Black Entertainment Television (BET) that it was bringing the on-line website “Hot Ghetto Mess” to television is warranted. I wrote about this website a couple years ago in a commentary about how Blacks were being re-stigmatized in American society. BET’s…

The current issue is always free to everyone The fallout of the grand announcement by Black Entertainment Television (BET) that it was bringing the on-line website…

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