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December 6, 2007

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By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Guest Commentary

Kucinich: I Am a Candidate of the Mainstream

By Jayson Whitehead Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone [This piece was originally published in C-Ville, Charlottesville’s Newsweekly] On Friday, December 7, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich will appear at Lane Auditorium in the County Office building to, as he says, “organize, so that we can have the financial and human resources to be able to run…

The current issue is always free to everyone [This piece was originally published in C-Ville, Charlottesville’s Newsweekly] On Friday, December 7, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich will…

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HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays – Justice Watch

By Bill Quigley Columnist

The current issue is always free to everyone On the 12th day before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans. Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War, HUD is spending $762…

The current issue is always free to everyone On the 12th day before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to…

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The Pew Study: Black Pathology or the Legitimization of Mainstream Colorblindness? – Between The Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Whether or not the study substantiates black optimism fading, or black progress in regression, the state of Black America is really the state of some harsh racial realities in America – realities that Blacks see one way, Whites see another and everybody sees somewhere in-between. To ignore that Blacks are still disproportionately discriminated against, and…

Whether or not the study substantiates black optimism fading, or black progress in regression, the state of Black America is really the state of some harsh…

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