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Issue: 285

July 10, 2008

Commentary

Hope – 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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Commentary

The Oakland Community School, Oakland, CA / The Hope Is Our Young People – In Struggle Spotlight

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

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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Guest Commentary

Africa Advocacy & The Zimbabwe Factor

By Netfa Freeman Guest Commentator

Based on the African experience should we trust media that is so egregiously wrong on Iraq and historically has never acknowledged immoral and illegal imperialist government agendas? Right now this media are complicit in hushing up the blatant double standard in the US’ undeclared asylum for notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carrilles and its unjust imprisonment…

Based on the African experience should we trust media that is so egregiously wrong on Iraq and historically has never acknowledged immoral and illegal imperialist government…

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Commentary

Cover Story: What Is Patriotism Really About? – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

But Barack hasn’t gone under. In fact, he has sustained, and maintained, that America can be better if it is willing to change. Just as black America has sustained over the notion, throughout the past 400 years, that America is not what it was but is not what it could be. Even when we say…

But Barack hasn’t gone under. In fact, he has sustained, and maintained, that America can be better if it is willing to change. Just as black…

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Commentary

Rev. Pinkney, Activist, Sent to Prison! – Class Warfare in the U.S. of Amerikkka!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories…

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The African World

Voter Protection

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The awareness of the shenanigans of the 2000 and 2004 elections has led to a very broad-based mobilization around what is being called “Voter Protection.” Unions, community-based organizations, and other non-profits have enlisted in this battle, one which starts with increasing public awareness of the dangers of voter disenfranchisement. Further involvement in this work is…

The awareness of the shenanigans of the 2000 and 2004 elections has led to a very broad-based mobilization around what is being called “Voter Protection.” Unions,…

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Color of Law

Handgun Madness at the U.S. Supreme Court

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

In his dissent, Justice Breyer noted that the D.C. law did not violate the Second Amendment, but rather protected an important interest – dealing with the life-threatening presence of firearms in our cities. He invoked the sobering statistics on handgun-related crimes, deaths and accidents in the District and in the nation as a whole, statistics…

In his dissent, Justice Breyer noted that the D.C. law did not violate the Second Amendment, but rather protected an important interest - dealing with the…

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