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June 5, 2008

Commentary

Black Pride Parties to a Different Beat

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, the Rev. Irene Monroe is a religion columnist, theologian, and public speaker. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe is a graduate from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, the Rev. Irene Monroe is a religion columnist, theologian, and public speaker. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe is a graduate from…

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Commentary

Psychological Warfare on The Notion of a Black President; Playing On Black Fear and White Lunacy – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

John McCain’s codification, while not as damning as Clinton’s, is not much better. To suggest that Obama’s “inexperience” doesn’t make him suited for the Presidency, infers that Obama is not “smart enough” to be President. It’s on record that McCain has a real distain for what he touts as Obama’s lack of experience, but experience…

John McCain’s codification, while not as damning as Clinton’s, is not much better. To suggest that Obama’s “inexperience” doesn’t make him suited for the Presidency, infers…

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Guest Commentary

Responsibility By Amy Branham,

By A Gold Star Mom for Peace Guest Commentator

One would think we would feel some sense of validation knowing that all we accused our government of doing: the lying, the torture, the deceit, is true. Piece by piece and time after time, those of us in the peace movement and, in particular, Gold Star Families who have worked in the peace movement have…

One would think we would feel some sense of validation knowing that all we accused our government of doing: the lying, the torture, the deceit, is…

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Commentary

Coffins – Poetic Black Fusion

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

I saw coffins as I lie on the backbone of a flat-bed pick-up scared to hell for denying Christ in the darkness of my night while the trumpet sounds of sirens where loud—everybody was aware of the road-rage cops on Winston’s tail. I saw coffins as I lie on the backbone of a flat-bed pick-up…

I saw coffins as I lie on the backbone of a flat-bed pick-up scared to hell for denying Christ in the darkness of my night while…

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Guest Commentary

The “Noose” Media: Strange Fruits, Bloody Leaves, and Swinging Bodies – Student Writers’ Corner

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

It is amazing to watch the network news channels bicker over who’s more biased than the other. While it might be amusing to some, one cannot undercut the tragedy that “pathwayed” this unimpeded act of folly. It is indeed a deep reminder of what passes for journalism today: Corporate demons, morphed into news-giants, but doing…

It is amazing to watch the network news channels bicker over who’s more biased than the other. While it might be amusing to some, one cannot…

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Commentary

Garvey and Economic Independence

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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Guest Commentary

State and Local Prosecutors Can Take Down Bush – Think Piece

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s new book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” is not just a particularly good addition to the ten-foot high stack of rants against Bush’s crimes and abuses of power. It’s also an argument that state and local prosecutors have the necessary jurisdiction to try Bush for murder and for…

Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s new book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” is not just a particularly good addition to the ten-foot high stack…

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Commentary

What Obama’s Democratic Party Nomination Victory Means – 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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