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Issue: 252

November 8, 2007

Commentary

Malcolm X: 40 Years Then and Now

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member 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 sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories…

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Commentary

Gays Unfairly Blamed for Episcopal Church’s Problems – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Is the Episcopal Church’s impeding schism really about the theological rift that sprung up after the consecration of its first openly gay bishop, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire? Or, is the brouhaha really about a church in battle with itself about how to be…

The current issue is always free to everyone Is the Episcopal Church’s impeding schism really about the theological rift that sprung up after the consecration of…

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Guest Commentary

Why Kucinich Should Concede Nothing

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

Democracy for America (DFA) is a grassroots group closely tied to the Democratic Party and born out of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, many of the supporters of which favored positions like those of Kucinich. Kucinich is currently leading in DFA’s unscientific online poll. Last spring, Kucinich finished third in a DFA poll, third in a…

Democracy for America (DFA) is a grassroots group closely tied to the Democratic Party and born out of Howard Dean's presidential campaign, many of the supporters…

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Commentary

Is It Wrong to Belong? – From The Fringe

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

The current issue is always free to everyone I now know how my mother must have felt when she was mistaken for the cleaning lady when she opened the front door of her own house, more than two decades ago. Sometimes, it’s the little things – the looks exchanged, the words whispered, the meanings inferred…

The current issue is always free to everyone I now know how my mother must have felt when she was mistaken for the cleaning lady when…

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Commentary

Self-Determination and Nationalism – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Harold Cruse describes this dilemma of the African in American Community, in this country, in his most profound analysis of our movement in his book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics). Cruse framed the American dynamic in this manner when he…

Harold Cruse describes this dilemma of the African in American Community, in this country, in his most profound analysis of our movement in his book, The…

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Commentary

Codetalkers: .How to Win Friends & Influence People in Iraq… Sidetracked

By Jane Stillwater Columnist

PS: While waiting for my flight from Kuwait to Frankfurt, I sat next to a contractor – the whole airport gate area was filled with contractors so this was not hard to do – who gave me his personal version of the history of the so-called war in Iraq. “In 2003 and 2004, it was…

PS: While waiting for my flight from Kuwait to Frankfurt, I sat next to a contractor - the whole airport gate area was filled with contractors…

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Commentary

A Lesson In The Absence Of Conscience And The Politics Of Placation

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The title of Hastie’s commentary was, “DuBois: Ex-Leader of Negroes.” When black leaders confronted Hastie on how he could be so uncivil to such a legendary figure as DuBois, he stated, “No Negro can ever afford any act contrary to good conscience — not for a single moment.” Segregation would be outlawed 20 years later,…

The title of Hastie’s commentary was, “DuBois: Ex-Leader of Negroes.” When black leaders confronted Hastie on how he could be so uncivil to such a legendary…

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