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Issue: 257

December 13, 2007

Cover Story

Why Have We Become A Nation of Sheep? – Musings of A Movement Veteran

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell Guest Commentator

My concern is that the concept of a Black Nation within the Nation has all but disappeared – vanished, as if white America had successfully exorcised a demon that ate at its entrails. The vision of a chocolate-colored necklace of cities strewn across America, controlled and governed by Black folks, a concrete expression of Black…

My concern is that the concept of a Black Nation within the Nation has all but disappeared – vanished, as if white America had successfully exorcised…

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Commentary

This Era of Black Women and HIV/AIDS – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Are these statistics overwhelming?! But so, too, is the failure of leadership African Americans have faced since the epidemic began. And no group of women is as affected by the failure of leadership in this country than women of African descent. American women and their struggle against…

The current issue is always free to everyone Are these statistics overwhelming?! But so, too, is the failure of leadership African Americans have faced since the…

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Commentary

On the Horn: A Humanitarian Crisis Rivaling Darfur & a Threat of War – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone In early November, the State Department’s point person for the Horn of Africa was going around saying political changes in Somalia had created a “new opportunity” for ending the civil conflict there. One month later, her boss was in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, pleading with the officials…

The current issue is always free to everyone In early November, the State Department’s point person for the Horn of Africa was going around saying political…

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The African World

Katrina and the 2008 Elections – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone The horror of the Katrina disaster did not unleash a mass upsurge. In witnessing the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of people, their dispersal into near anonymity around the country, and the efforts to demographically alter the Gulf Coast with the removal of the poor, the Black,…

The current issue is always free to everyone The horror of the Katrina disaster did not unleash a mass upsurge. In witnessing the abandonment of hundreds…

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Commentary

AG Jerry Brown, the San Francisco 8, and The Big Chill – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Keep in mind that, as Ron Jacobs in The Case of the San Francisco 8 reports, the “federal court ruled in 1974 that both San Francisco and New Orleans police had engaged in torture to extract a confession (see the Legacy of Torture video), and a San Francisco judge dismissed charges against three men in…

Keep in mind that, as Ron Jacobs in The Case of the San Francisco 8 reports, the “federal court ruled in 1974 that both San Francisco…

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Color of Law

Reverend Pinkney’s Fight Against Racism, Gangsterism and Land Stealing – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The current issue is always free to everyone In Benton Harbor, Michigan, the injustice against Rev. Edward Pinkney continues. An outspoken leader in the fight against racial injustice, poverty, corruption and corporate greed, Rev. Pinkney was sentenced to jail by an all White jury for voter fraud. His crime was leading a successful effort to…

The current issue is always free to everyone In Benton Harbor, Michigan, the injustice against Rev. Edward Pinkney continues. An outspoken leader in the fight against…

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Commentary

Capitalism, COINTELPRO, and the Torture of Justice – Keeping It Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone To deny the reality of injustice is to perpetuate it. To acknowledge the reality of injustice is the first step in seriously addressing and changing it. Let us be candid, the United States of America is not now nor was it ever “the land of the free…

The current issue is always free to everyone To deny the reality of injustice is to perpetuate it. To acknowledge the reality of injustice is the…

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Commentary

Stray Bullets – Poetic Black Fusion

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

The current issue is always free to everyone Stray bullets still ring out around South Minneapolis the 34th block & Chicago— as the Fall season stands still for Tyesha— Tyesha Edwards the intellectual they’re killing our messengers in who’s time there was no time as tears pierce the blue siding where the sobbing will never…

The current issue is always free to everyone Stray bullets still ring out around South Minneapolis the 34th block & Chicago— as the Fall season stands…

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