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Issue: 279

May 29, 2008

Commentary

Criticism Of The Integrity In The (Black) Press: I Write for “The People,” Not for “A Paper” – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The Black Press has served as an ultimate check against a constant “white-out” of issues in our community and the constant distortion of facts that continually misrepresent black communities and the people who live there. Today’s news is tomorrow’s history. He (she) who tells the story, writes the ending. Historiography in America is constantly in…

The Black Press has served as an ultimate check against a constant “white-out” of issues in our community and the constant distortion of facts that continually…

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Commentary

Can a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Gay white Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s notorious “Man in a Polyester Suit” maintains the stereotypical convention of black male sexuality as a monstrous phallus that is dangerous, out of control and animalistic. The gay white male photographer’s central focus on a black uncircumcised penis protruding from an unzipped pair of polyester pants reasserts the mythology of…

Gay white Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s notorious “Man in a Polyester Suit” maintains the stereotypical convention of black male sexuality as a monstrous phallus that is dangerous,…

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Commentary

What To Do in a Recession – Part I – Smoke and Mirrors

By Lloyd Wynn Columnist

“The banks exposed themselves too much; they took on too much risk …. It’s their fault. There’s no need to blame anyone else.” Warren Buffett in an interview with a Madrid newspaper, El Pais, speaking on the sub-prime crisis published May 25, 2008 “I believe that we are already in a recession…It will be deeper…

“The banks exposed themselves too much; they took on too much risk .... It's their fault. There's no need to blame anyone else.” Warren Buffett in…

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Cover Story

Assassination Talk Shows Hillary’s True Colors – Color of Law

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The Clinton camp played the race card in a manner that would have made any Jim Crow politician blush. From the start, President Clinton did his part to stoke the fires of racial division in the South Carolina primary by comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson. At the same time, Sen. Clinton downplayed Martin Luther King’s…

The Clinton camp played the race card in a manner that would have made any Jim Crow politician blush. From the start, President Clinton did his…

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Commentary

Political Analysis: Dynamics of the Obama Campaign’s Historic Achievement

By Dr. Martin Kilson Editorial Board

Particularly interesting about Valerie Jarrett’s public policy career since its debut in the late 1970s-and early-1980s Harold Washington Chicago Mayoralty, has been a persistent intertwining of Jarrett’s policy function with African-American realities. As the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 2008) reports: “…Most Recently, as a board member of the committee to bring the 2016 Summer…

Particularly interesting about Valerie Jarrett's public policy career since its debut in the late 1970s-and early-1980s Harold Washington Chicago Mayoralty, has been a persistent intertwining of…

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Commentary

The Empire’s Hypocritical Politics: Reflections of Fidel Castro, Retired President of Cuba On the speech by Barack Obama To the Cuban American National Foundation

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“Throughout my entire life, there has been injustice and repression in Cuba. Never, in my lifetime, have the people of Cuba known freedom. Never, in the lives of two generations of Cubans, have the people of Cuba known democracy. (…) This is the terrible and tragic status quo that we have known for half a…

"Throughout my entire life, there has been injustice and repression in Cuba. Never, in my lifetime, have the people of Cuba known freedom. Never, in the…

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