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July 3, 2008

Guest Commentary

Wrestling with a Strange Reality: Barack Obama and the Impossibility of a Black V.P. – Student Writers’ Corner

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

With regards to Senator Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Presidential nomination, the names of certain potential V.P candidates have been circulated by the mainstream press. Never mind the presumed “psychic-ability” of these pundits, most shocking is the stark disability of the half-baked talking heads to recognize black politicians as viable vice-presidents for Senator Obama. If…

With regards to Senator Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Presidential nomination, the names of certain potential V.P candidates have been circulated by the mainstream press. Never…

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Guest Commentary

Where Black Power Meets Progressive Politics

By Charles J. Evans Guest Commentator

Friday, June 27th, marks the 67th birthday of Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael), who joined our ancestors on November 15th, 1998 following complications related to prostate cancer. Ture was an organizer, an activist, a leader, and a Pan Africanist in the truest sense of the words. At a time when our people were…

Friday, June 27th, marks the 67th birthday of Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael), who joined our ancestors on November 15th, 1998 following complications related…

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Quote to Ponder: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. - Frederick Douglass

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Quote to Ponder: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. – Frederick Douglass

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Guest Commentary

Black August 2008

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

This is the 29th anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our martyred freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas, and the sole survivor of the August 7,1970 Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee. It’s a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical fitness and/or…

This is the 29th anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our martyred freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas,…

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Commentary

Building Me A Home – Poetic Black Fusion

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

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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