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Issue: 272

April 10, 2008

Commentary

Senator Clinton and Senator Obama: Use Your Leadership Now to End the War in Iraq!

By Military Families Speak Out

A single act of bold leadership by Senator Clinton or Senator Obama could be instrumental in ending this war. When the Senate takes up the next war funding bill, either one of them could lead a filibuster, refusing to stand down until their colleagues agree to vote against any bill that provides funding to continue…

A single act of bold leadership by Senator Clinton or Senator Obama could be instrumental in ending this war. When the Senate takes up the next…

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Commentary

Reflections on King, Candidates and Movements

By Dr. Barbara Ransby, PhD Editorial Board

On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we would do well to remember an observation by the civil-rights organizer Ella Baker: “Martin didn’t make the movement, the movement made Martin.” The same can be said of both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Veteran organizers from around the…

On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we would do well to remember an observation by the civil-rights organizer…

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Commentary

Hip Hop Framed – Poetic Black Fusion

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

Hip Hop Framed Hip-Hop images captured & stilled for the worlds view their mug shots are a center piece portrait —with most rappers thinking— the snitch framed them reading exclusive interviews some writers have created a moral panic on their client’s profiled in magazines asking: are rappers the target? is the justice system fair? behind…

Hip Hop Framed Hip-Hop images captured & stilled for the worlds view their mug shots are a center piece portrait —with most rappers thinking— the snitch…

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Commentary

There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals – National Affairs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Last Sunday Ben Stein wrote on how and why executive pay has skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Among other things he pointed out that last year Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs made $54 million, though the firm’s stock is now down from $250 per share to $175 per share (or 37 percent). But Blankfein…

Last Sunday Ben Stein wrote on how and why executive pay has skyrocketed in the last 15 years. Among other things he pointed out that last…

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Commentary

Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Revisited – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

This year, 2008 marks the forty-first year of the publication of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Its importance to our movement has still not received the attention it deserves, primarily because Brother Cruse was so honest in his criticisms of our movement and many of its well-known leaders. Therefore, the book was blocked in…

This year, 2008 marks the forty-first year of the publication of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Its importance to our movement has still not received…

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Commentary

Hillary is a Sorcerer, an Out-Sourcerer

By Paul Rockwell Guest Commentator

The Clintons have a long history of posing as labor populists during elections, only to become free trade deregulators after taking power. Bill Clinton, with Hillary at his side, made huge campaign promises to labor in 1992, and labor leaders spent millions of dollars to put the Clintons in the White House. Within months of…

The Clintons have a long history of posing as labor populists during elections, only to become free trade deregulators after taking power. Bill Clinton, with Hillary…

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Commentary

Response to Pat Buchanan’s Rant

By Vincent G. Thomas

Pat, we hear your grievances, but where is the gratitude for almost 250 years of free labor? for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people? How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn…

Pat, we hear your grievances, but where is the gratitude for almost 250 years of free labor? for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing…

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Commentary

Energy Days at the University of Texas

By Daniel N. White Guest Commentator

Each of the panelists received ten minutes for their presentation, a time limit that was waived for the guest from Brookings. UT led off with Michael Webber talking knowledgeably about how plans for the energy future had to meet the basic laws of physics and chemistry, something of which proponents of various schemes in the…

Each of the panelists received ten minutes for their presentation, a time limit that was waived for the guest from Brookings. UT led off with Michael…

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