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Issue: 252

November 8, 2007

Commentary

4 New BlackCommentator Editorial Board Members

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone We are pleased to announce four new members of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board. Listed in alphabetical order by last name, they are: Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years, of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist…

The current issue is always free to everyone We are pleased to announce four new members of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board. Listed in alphabetical order by…

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Color of Law

American Puppet Power in Pakistan – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The raw power grab in Pakistan, in which General Pervez Musharraf has imposed a state of emergency, suspended the Supreme Court and the provincial courts, and silenced private-owned media, tells us far more about the United States than Pakistan. Pakistani citizens are paying the price for the misguided policies of Washington decision makers. The U.S.…

The raw power grab in Pakistan, in which General Pervez Musharraf has imposed a state of emergency, suspended the Supreme Court and the provincial courts, and…

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The African World

Thoughts on the Jena 6 Mobilization and New Movements – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone I was thrilled by the tremendous mobilization surrounding the now infamous Jena 6 case in Louisiana. Credit must go to radio personalities such as Michael Baisden and Tom Joyner, as well as Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, in addition to the work of the NAACP, for…

The current issue is always free to everyone I was thrilled by the tremendous mobilization surrounding the now infamous Jena 6 case in Louisiana. Credit must…

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Commentary

Dead Lawns & For-Sale Signs – Where’s Alfonzo Jackson? – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The problem is that the Administration’s policies amount to little more than reliance upon vague promises by the mortgage industry to aid borrowers and next to nothing in real terms to arrest the tide of anticipated foreclosures. Critics have stepped up demands that the federal government move with greater speed to confront the crisis. While…

The problem is that the Administration’s policies amount to little more than reliance upon vague promises by the mortgage industry to aid borrowers and next to…

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Commentary

Justice American Style: As The Toilet Flushes – Keeping It Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Justice American style means hypocrisy and in reality, no justice at all. BC Editorial Board member, Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the…

Justice American style means hypocrisy and in reality, no justice at all. BC Editorial Board member, Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party,…

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Quote to Ponder

Art

Quote to Ponder

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Invasion – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

The current issue is always free to everyone 45 seconds to pronounce the real deal- DEAL mass destruction by hands HAND? many hand steering airborne cancers that kills Killed Dorothy to LUNG CANCER? and she didn’t smoke I guess Miss Evers great-great-grand children carried my mother’s-mother to the land mill in Mississippi it airborne fumes…

The current issue is always free to everyone 45 seconds to pronounce the real deal- DEAL mass destruction by hands HAND? many hand steering airborne cancers…

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Commentary

Julia Agnes Washington Bond Dies at 99 – BlackCommentator In Struggle Spotlight

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone Librarian Julia Agnes Washington Bond died in her sleep November 2, 2007. She was 99 years old. She was born on June 20, 1908 in Nashville, Tennessee, where her parents had graduated from Fisk. Her mother, Daisy Agnes Turner Washington, worked as a teacher and her father,…

The current issue is always free to everyone Librarian Julia Agnes Washington Bond died in her sleep November 2, 2007. She was 99 years old. She…

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