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Issue: 277

May 15, 2008

Cover Story

The Working Class is Back. And Guess What. It’s White – Left Margin

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

After decades of the major media’s refusal to link the word “working” with “class,” the print pages and airwaves are now alive with talk about the conditions, aspirations and views of working people. Journalists, who only a few weeks ago would have scoffed at the mere mention of there being a “working class.” are now…

After decades of the major media’s refusal to link the word “working” with “class,” the print pages and airwaves are now alive with talk about the…

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Commentary

Single-Payer Healthcare – A BlackCommentator.com Series – Part 38: Working for Health Justice & Economic Security!

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

Our nation is being presented with an amazing opportunity right now. We have the resources to give good health care to everyone who lives here. We have the opportunity to end the agonizing worry and unnecessary suffering of so many people about their health care. What stands in the way is a time-honored idea that…

Our nation is being presented with an amazing opportunity right now. We have the resources to give good health care to everyone who lives here. We…

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Commentary

The Hard-Working White Americans – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

And certainly, the race card is a time-tested strategy for dividing people down the middle, ensuring that they are at each other’s throats, responding to fear rather than reason or self interest, and in tune with their reptilian brain. The clarion call that Whites are all in this together, against people of color – that…

And certainly, the race card is a time-tested strategy for dividing people down the middle, ensuring that they are at each other’s throats, responding to fear…

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Commentary

Calling Black Activists to St. Louis: The Black Radical Congress Turns 10 – The African World

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

It really hit me the other day that there is a major crisis brewing “out there.” It is not just one thing but a number of things coming together that some people have described as a “perfect storm.” For me it was just the realization that I am feeling more and more squeezed financially. And,…

It really hit me the other day that there is a major crisis brewing “out there.” It is not just one thing but a number of…

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Commentary

Race Conversations for Comforting Whites and Employing Head Negroes – Represent Our Resistance

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Compton-Rock restored order! Williams asked her to talk about motherhood, raising two children – while being Black. Compton-Rock talked about her young daughter who has an Arab and white friend. The daughter came home one day and asked why she didn’t have long hair. The daughter also spoke of her hair as being “puffy.” Now,…

Compton-Rock restored order! Williams asked her to talk about motherhood, raising two children - while being Black. Compton-Rock talked about her young daughter who has an…

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Commentary

On The Importance of Reparations and Self Determination – Keeping it Real

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a…

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Commentary

Obama And Superdelegate Accountability: What Are Reps. Maxine Waters and Diane Watson Waiting On? – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

After the last “firewall” states fell last week in North Carolina and Indiana, many Democratic Party “Superdelegates” have now seen the writing on the wall. In case some of ‘em didn’t get the memo, Barack Obama WILL BE the Democratic Party nominee. On May 6th, Obama, who was leading in every other imaginable category (states…

After the last “firewall” states fell last week in North Carolina and Indiana, many Democratic Party “Superdelegates” have now seen the writing on the wall. In…

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Commentary

Death March – Poetic Black Fusion

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

Death March It’s on all over the world— at the Louisiana Superdome the death march has been initiated for a total excavation of Black people even if you are in denial—the evidence is not living proof read up on Sudan, Chicago, Rwanda, Minneapolis, Somalia— Camden places where you and I live comfortably journaling our experience…

Death March It’s on all over the world— at the Louisiana Superdome the death march has been initiated for a total excavation of Black people even…

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