Issue: 28
February 6, 2003
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The electronic wonders of the Internet allow us to declare with finality that Khalil Bendib’s January 30 cartoon “The Devil’s Handmaiden” is his most popular work to date on . Bendib’s depiction of Condeleezza Rice’s climb up the ladder of success, only to reject the mechanisms of minority upward mobility once they had served her…
The electronic wonders of the Internet allow us to declare with finality that Khalil Bendib's January 30 cartoon "The Devil's Handmaiden" is his most popular work…
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The Issues
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“We have a President that is Hell bent on war,” said Rev. Al Sharpton. “I think the President is determined to go to war no matter what.” Only one other Democratic presidential hopeful comes even close to speaking the unadorned truth about Bush’s warlust – and nobody knows his name. (It’s Howard Dean, the former…
"We have a President that is Hell bent on war," said Rev. Al Sharpton. "I think the President is determined to go to war no matter…
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The GOP’s two-ring Black “outreach” circus
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Send in the Clowns: The GOP’s two-ring Black “outreach” circus To the outside observer, the Republican Party may seem to have no coherent plan for Black America. Actually, the GOP has two game plans. One is a farcical show of “inclusion” through appointments and hiring, a petty cash and publicity diversion designed to have no…
Send in the Clowns: The GOP’s two-ring Black "outreach" circus To the outside observer, the Republican Party may seem to have no coherent plan for Black…
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“Shrub” Bush’s Pathological Focus On Saddam Hussein
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In an unusual piece that deserves wider attention, William Raspberry (“Our Insane Focus on Iraq,” The Washington Post, 9 September, 2002) laid out some of the psychological issues underlying the “Shrub” Bush’s pathological obsession with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Raspberry wrote: The administration’s monomaniacal focus on Iraq’s Saddam Hussein as the fount of all…
In an unusual piece that deserves wider attention, William Raspberry ("Our Insane Focus on Iraq," The Washington Post, 9 September, 2002) laid out some of the…
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…AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST
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In 1964, a young man named Lawrence Guyot epitomized black America’s long struggle for the right to vote when he organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to protest the state’s all-white elections, and its decision to send an all-white delegation to that year’s nominating convention in Atlantic City. In the face of violent resistance, Guyot…
In 1964, a young man named Lawrence Guyot epitomized black America's long struggle for the right to vote when he organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party…
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