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Issue: 272

April 10, 2008

Cover Story

African American Peacemakers – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Brack Obama, and the Struggle Against Racism, Inequality and War

By Dr. Manning Marable, PhD Editorial Board

Meanwhile, as our military adventures abroad continue, states are reducing their investments in education, while expanding expenditures in their correctional facilities. Between 1987 and 2007, states spent an average of a 21 percent increase on higher education, but expanded their corrections budgets by an average of 127 percent. Today, for the first time in recent…

Meanwhile, as our military adventures abroad continue, states are reducing their investments in education, while expanding expenditures in their correctional facilities. Between 1987 and 2007, states…

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Commentary

After 30 Years, the MOVE 9 Must be Paroled – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member David A. Love, JD is a lawyer and journalist based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to the Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, In These Times and Philadelphia Independent Media Center. He contributed to the book, States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). Love is a former…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member David A. Love, JD is a lawyer and journalist based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to the Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News…

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Commentary

Cornel West Calls Obama Out for Dissing King Tribute – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

“I want to say that I’m deeply disappointed that my dear brother Barack Obama decided not to go pay tribute and lay his wreath for the great Martin Luther King, Jr. That Brother Martin’s profound love and deep sacrifice for black people, America and humanity is in no way reducible to political calculations, even for…

“I want to say that I'm deeply disappointed that my dear brother Barack Obama decided not to go pay tribute and lay his wreath for the…

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Commentary

The Judas Factor: Barack Obama and a Movement Betrayed (or ‘for Those Who Have Joined the Empire’) – Keeping It Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

These Black, Brown, and Red people are my people, along with all people of good will, and I will not abandon them no matter how the system tries to play us off against each other. You are MY people and I am proud of you ALL – Black, Red, Brown, Yellow, and yes, White. You…

These Black, Brown, and Red people are my people, along with all people of good will, and I will not abandon them no matter how the…

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Commentary

An Open Letter to the Major League Baseball Players’ Association on Curt Flood – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Dear Executive Director Donald M. Fehr: It has now been more than ten years since the death of Curt Flood. Many of us, baseball fans and fans of Curt Flood in particular, were hoping that the 10th anniversary of his passing would bring with it a broader recognition of his contributions to Major League Baseball…

Dear Executive Director Donald M. Fehr: It has now been more than ten years since the death of Curt Flood. Many of us, baseball fans and…

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Art: Satchel Paige

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Art: Satchel Paige

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Rogue Ideology: They Love You If You’re Dead! – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

In the history that Obama seems determined to excise from the American public’s collective memory is the little business of one group, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Founded in 1919, by white Southerners, the CIC recruited “middle class black and white people,” Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore writes (Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights,…

In the history that Obama seems determined to excise from the American public’s collective memory is the little business of one group, the Commission on Interracial…

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Commentary

Business as Usual – Smoke and Mirrors

By Lloyd Wynn Columnist

[This week, BlackCommentator.com welcomes Lloyd Wynn as a BC Columnist with his column, Smoke and Mirrors.] In light of hearings held by the Senate Banking Committee into the sale of Bear Stearns, I feel compelled to give you another story behind this transaction that the Federal Reserve and the Security and Exchange Commission are not…

[This week, BlackCommentator.com welcomes Lloyd Wynn as a BC Columnist with his column, Smoke and Mirrors.] In light of hearings held by the Senate Banking Committee…

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Commentary

The King Assassination: Forty Years Later…and This Country Still Hasn’t Gotten Over It – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Forty years ago last week, one of America’s saddest and most shameful episodes concluded with the assassination of the single most significant leader in America’s history. Save Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, no individual had a greater impact on the race question in America. Certainly in the 20th Century, no individual sought to challenge the…

Forty years ago last week, one of America’s saddest and most shameful episodes concluded with the assassination of the single most significant leader in America’s history.…

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