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Issue: 273

April 17, 2008

Cover Story

1: “Z” is for Zimbabwe: Turmoil & Silence as a Country Potentially Unravels – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Much of Black America stopped discussing Zimbabwe after its liberation in 1980; at least, we stopped discussing it for a while. After years of regular coverage of the liberation war, details regarding Zimbabwe became harder to obtain as attention shifted to struggles in Mozambique, Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Not to be misunderstood, it was…

Much of Black America stopped discussing Zimbabwe after its liberation in 1980; at least, we stopped discussing it for a while. After years of regular coverage…

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Cover Story

2: Justice for Zimbabwe – Message of Solidarity

By Imani Countess Editorial Board

TransAfrica Forum is the leading advocacy organization for Africa and the African Diaspora in U.S. foreign policy. TransAfrica Forum helped lead the world protest against apartheid in South Africa and colonial rule in southern Africa. Today, the organization works for human and economic justice for African people on the continent of Africa, in Latin America…

TransAfrica Forum is the leading advocacy organization for Africa and the African Diaspora in U.S. foreign policy. TransAfrica Forum helped lead the world protest against apartheid…

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Commentary

Obama and Bitterness – Analysis

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Recently Barack Obama was criticized for making the following statement about working people in rural areas of the U.S. who have suffered from economic downturns: “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way…

Recently Barack Obama was criticized for making the following statement about working people in rural areas of the U.S. who have suffered from economic downturns: "It's…

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Commentary

An Uncertain Time for Capitalism – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Don’t take it from me. The august Financial Times said it last Saturday: “It is not just the credit crisis. Popular fears of globalization, discontent with high oil and food prices, rising income inequality within nations – all have contributed to an uncertain time for capitalism. The capitalists have certainly not helped.” The paper’s editors…

Don’t take it from me. The august Financial Times said it last Saturday: “It is not just the credit crisis. Popular fears of globalization, discontent with…

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Commentary

Why Clinton’s Jeremiah Wright Strategy Failed – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

To be sure, vast reservoirs of racism still exist in the United States. There are some voters in this country who do not like Black people, and will not vote for a person of color, nor anyone who is not a White man, for that matter. But given that those votes never were for the…

To be sure, vast reservoirs of racism still exist in the United States. There are some voters in this country who do not like Black people,…

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Commentary

“Racializing Obama” – Along the Color Line

By Dr. Manning Marable Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Manning Marable, PhD is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. For ten years, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Manning Marable, PhD is one of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public…

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Commentary

Democratic & Republican Parties Propping Up Capitalism: Systemic Terrorism Against the Poor – Keeping It Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

So you want change, do you? It is the year 2008, and while the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States incessantly prattle on about everything but the serious, substantive and much needed systemic change in this nation, the corporate / military / prison elite apparatus sucks the economic and political life blood out…

So you want change, do you? It is the year 2008, and while the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States incessantly prattle on about…

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Commentary

Black Men, Don’t Be No “Punk”: Get Your Colon Checked Before And After Age 50 – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Manhood, in the black community, is defined in many ways. The more mature contextual definitions are fatherhood, “Bread winner,” protector, role model. The more immature definitions are “Gangsta,” “Playa,” “Pimp,” “Dog” (anything but a “Man”). One of the rarest definitions of black manhood is “healthy.” Black men often confuse physique with health. They tend to…

Manhood, in the black community, is defined in many ways. The more mature contextual definitions are fatherhood, “Bread winner,” protector, role model. The more immature definitions…

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