Issue: 246

Commentary

Professor Martin Kilson Joins the BlackCommentator Editorial Board

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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HELP!!! We are facing a $50,000 shortfall from now until December. With money getting tight for so many people, the number of new BC Paid Subscribers…

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Cartoon

Cartoon: Auto Industry Health Care

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

Imprisoned for Opposing Terrorism?

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. bc Editorial Board

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The current issue is always free to everyone Were it not true, one might have thought that it had been dreamed up by a mystery writer. Let’s set the stage. The US government was approached by a Latin American country in the 1990s with information about terrorist activity being carried out against it — the…

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The current issue is always free to everyone Were it not true, one might have thought that it had been dreamed up by a mystery writer.…

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Commentary

Left Margin: We’re an “Emerging Market” in Big Trouble

By Carl Bloice bc Editorial Board

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The current issue is always free to everyone The term “emerging markets” usually refers to business and commercial activity in industrializing or developing regions of the planet. It is “sometimes loosely used as a replacement for emerging economies, but really signifies a business phenomenon that is not fully described by, or constrained to, geography or…

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The current issue is always free to everyone The term “emerging markets” usually refers to business and commercial activity in industrializing or developing regions of the…

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Commentary

Inclusion: Jena 6’s Black Leadership Splits Gay Community

By The Reverend Irene Monroe bc Editorial Board

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The current issue is always free to everyone The Jena 6 case – in which Southern white law enforcement in Jena, Louisiana, unabashedly doled out biased treatment against six African-American high school students – harkens backs to this country’s era of Jim Crow. And it is a no-brainer as to why there was a mass…

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The current issue is always free to everyone The Jena 6 case - in which Southern white law enforcement in Jena, Louisiana, unabashedly doled out biased…

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Art

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. –Coretta Scott King

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Between The Lines: O.J. “Dumb Sh*t” – Do We Really Need This Right Now?

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD bc Columnist

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The current issue is always free to everyone The very week a 21st Century social justice movement was seeking to galvanize a new generation of activists (and revitalize an old generation of activists), the purest racial equality interests of Black America had to compete with the purest racial foolishness for the national media. Given a…

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The current issue is always free to everyone The very week a 21st Century social justice movement was seeking to galvanize a new generation of activists…

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Art

Art: The Wish

By Larry Richardson

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