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Issue: 273

April 17, 2008

Commentary

Let Jack Bauer Do It! – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Edwin Clifford Holland, from John Hope Franklin’s The Militant South, 1800-1861 The French take to the streets! It is not only that the French might attune to what is happening and won’t hesitate to organize resistance to whatever they deem is injustice, unfair, unequal – just downright wrong. Something else is happening here that keeps…

-Edwin Clifford Holland, from John Hope Franklin’s The Militant South, 1800-1861 The French take to the streets! It is not only that the French might attune…

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Commentary

The Birth of Redlining: The Real History of the Homeowners Loan Corporation – Smoke and Mirrors

By Lloyd Wynn Columnist

The Home Owners Loan Act was passed in 1933 and the Act created an emergency agency called the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC). The HOLC was under the supervision of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). The primary function of HOLC was to refinance mortgages that were going into foreclosure. Mortgage foreclosures were occurring…

The Home Owners Loan Act was passed in 1933 and the Act created an emergency agency called the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC). The HOLC was…

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Commentary

Decades of Documented Health Care Disparities Have Not Brought About Policy Changes

By Kathlyn Stone

It’s a rare week when we don’t see the release of a new study showing how health care lags for African Americans: “When it comes to your risk of stroke, you get a penalty for being African American, you get a penalty for living in the South, and you get an ‘extra’ penalty for being…

It’s a rare week when we don't see the release of a new study showing how health care lags for African Americans: "When it comes to…

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Commentary

PowerLess – Poetic Black Fusion

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

PowerLess Somebody lied to us, Black men after the doctor slapped in life patriarchal man said, “don’t cry” “be tuff” & what’s real star power, brother? deny the people, gain access and showboat your end-zone dance with twenty – 150,000 dollar cars, flossing with 3 mansions you hardly sleep in, now – to prove you…

PowerLess Somebody lied to us, Black men after the doctor slapped in life patriarchal man said, “don’t cry” “be tuff” & what’s real star power, brother?…

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Commentary

Two Relatively New or Novel Ideas: Starting Today with the Question of Prosecuting Guilty American Leaders for Torture – National Affairs

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Well, so be it for ordinary people in this celebrity driven world. Nevertheless, in this commentary and the next one this ordinary person shall again discuss new ideas in the hope that once again they may be picked up by others, by those who are celebrified, those who are read and listened to. The idea…

Well, so be it for ordinary people in this celebrity driven world. Nevertheless, in this commentary and the next one this ordinary person shall again discuss…

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Commentary

Crimes Against Humanity and Reparations – Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Myth 2: “The malicious myth time and the elements have destroyed all records, all evidence, all proof of who committed and or aided and abetted in the commission of these crimes; and of who was and continues to be wrongfully and unjustly enriched by and through their participation in these crimes; in this unprecedented theft…

Myth 2: “The malicious myth time and the elements have destroyed all records, all evidence, all proof of who committed and or aided and abetted in…

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Commentary

Senators Could End the Iraq War This Spring

By Nancy Lessin

“On the campaign trail, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have repeatedly said that they oppose the war in Iraq, and that if they were elected president, they would begin bringing our troops home,” added Nancy Lessin, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, whose stepson served with the Marines in Iraq in 2003. “But the reality…

“On the campaign trail, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have repeatedly said that they oppose the war in Iraq, and that if they were elected president,…

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Commentary

Prison Gang Drop-Outs Being Threatened…If They Refuse to Snitch

By Harold Austin

In the course of my confinement at MCSP, I’ve been placed in ad-seg, six different times, on a long list of conspiracy theories ranging from “conspiracy to stab another prisoner as a contract hit”, “conspiracy to assault guards when Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams was assassinated”, “conspiracy to incite other prisoners to attack guards”, “conspiracy to harm…

In the course of my confinement at MCSP, I’ve been placed in ad-seg, six different times, on a long list of conspiracy theories ranging from “conspiracy…

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Commentary

Special Order 40 Not the Problem…Just Another Distraction – Unapologetically Young, Black and Female

By Jasmyne Cannick Columnist

In case you weren’t aware, sound bytes from politicians and well-meaning street corner activists on the evening news don’t end gang violence. Neither do rallies, candle vigils, or press conferences on the steps of City Hall. And despite what some are trying to feed us, not even the proposed modifications to Special Order 40, a…

In case you weren’t aware, sound bytes from politicians and well-meaning street corner activists on the evening news don’t end gang violence. Neither do rallies, candle…

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