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January 31, 2008

Color of Law

Ward Connerly’s Super Tuesday for Segregation – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

So, what’s in it for Connerly? The dollars, of course. Apparently, there is much money to be made in dismantling the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, and Connerly is first in line to get paid. In 1996, Connerly, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action through a California set-aside…

So, what’s in it for Connerly? The dollars, of course. Apparently, there is much money to be made in dismantling the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther…

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Commentary

A Freedom Movement Begins with a Black Agenda for Change! – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Conqueror and divide – a tactic of importance since so many young Africans were now leaving for college campuses in America – in the late 1960s and 1970s. The natural-wearing, Black Power generation, reading their Diop and Fanon, Cleaver and Walter Rodney, will encounter the African alright! The African students, in time, were rewarded for…

Conqueror and divide - a tactic of importance since so many young Africans were now leaving for college campuses in America - in the late 1960s…

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Commentary

Is Barack Obama a Contemporary Don Quixote? – Think Piece

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone Few of us have really stopped to think of the almost insurmountable obstacles that Barack Obama must and is facing in his quest of the presidency. I have used the word “quest” purposefully since that, which, in my view, Senator Obama is facing, reminds me of what…

The current issue is always free to everyone Few of us have really stopped to think of the almost insurmountable obstacles that Barack Obama must and…

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Commentary

Building Me A Home – Poetic Black Fusion

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

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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