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May 8, 2008

Cover Story

Nobody’s Daughter – Inclusion

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Rev. Irene Monroe was Mark’s guest Thursday, May 8, 2008 Prologue diary entry: July 10, 1969 age: 14 “Momma’s gone. Momma’s been gone all my life. Kids rudely ask me how I feel having no mother, especially around Mother’s Day. I tell them I really am okay about it, because they don’t know I feel…

Rev. Irene Monroe was Mark's guest Thursday, May 8, 2008 Prologue diary entry: July 10, 1969 age: 14 “Momma’s gone. Momma’s been gone all my life.…

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Commentary

Crisis & Revitalization Dynamics in the Obama Campaign – Election Analysis

By Dr. Martin Kilson, PhD Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Martin Kilson, PhD hails from an African Methodist background and clergy: From a great-great grandfather who founded an African Methodist Episcopal church in Maryland in the 1840s; from a great-grandfather AME clergyman; from a Civil War veteran great-grandfather who founded an African Union Methodist Protestant church in Pennsylvania in 1885; and…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Martin Kilson, PhD hails from an African Methodist background and clergy: From a great-great grandfather who founded an African Methodist Episcopal church…

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Commentary

My Thoughts About Mother’s Day

By James Jennings Editorial Board

First, I want to thank BlackCommentator.com for this creative and timely idea, an issue devoted to motherhood in our communities…powerful, indeed! My thoughts about motherhood…I would like to take the opportunity to say a few words about my grandmother, Esperanza Guzman. But, of course, everything is connected to everything…so, I want to also express my…

First, I want to thank BlackCommentator.com for this creative and timely idea, an issue devoted to motherhood in our communities...powerful, indeed! My thoughts about motherhood...I would…

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Commentary

A Black Mother’s Day Story in the Age of Post-Race in Amerikkka – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories…

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Guest Commentary

“Is That Your Child?”: Successful Strategies for Mothering Biracial Children

By Dr. Marion Kilson, PhD and Florence Ladd, PhD Guest Commentators

“Is that your child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children in the United States encounter whether they are African Americans or European Americans, rearing children today or a generation ago, living in cities or suburbs, are upper middle class or middle class. In our forthcoming book we probe mothers’ responses to this…

“Is that your child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children in the United States encounter whether they are African Americans or European Americans,…

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Commentary

Mom & 1968 – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

With the 40th anniversary of the events of 1968, one that will need in depth examination is the 1968 teacher’s strike in New York City. My mother’s role in that strike was pivotal…at least for me. The NY teacher’s strike was a reactionary strike against an effort in the African American and Puerto Rican communities…

With the 40th anniversary of the events of 1968, one that will need in depth examination is the 1968 teacher's strike in New York City. My…

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Commentary

On the Criminalization of Black Motherhood – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

On this Mother’s Day, it is fitting that we take time to think of all of the mothers, disproportionately poor, and disproportionately of color, who are behind bars in the United States. Victims of a failed war on drugs, pawns in a for-profit prison scheme that requires more and more warm bodies, locked up, to…

On this Mother’s Day, it is fitting that we take time to think of all of the mothers, disproportionately poor, and disproportionately of color, who are…

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Commentary

Mothers’ Day: Rooted in Peace

By Nancy Littlefield Staffer

“Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears! “Say firmly: We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to…

“Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears! “Say firmly: We will not…

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