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September 25, 2008

Quote to Ponder: "Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings..." - Angela Davis

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Quote to Ponder: “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings…” – Angela Davis

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Any BlackCommentator.com article may be re-printed so long as it is re-printed in its entirety and full credit given to the author and www.BlackCommentator.com. If the…

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Commentary

We Need to Stop the Superintendent Shuffle

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

They bounce from city to city looking for their next hustle. The crises in public education have created a diseased gene pool of school superintendents who go from urban district to suburban district. They have the school reform jargon down pat, promising fiscal accountability and higher reading scores. And so I ask you: if they…

They bounce from city to city looking for their next hustle. The crises in public education have created a diseased gene pool of school superintendents who…

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Commentary

The Slow-Witted Beast: Mass Media Sings the Devil’s Tune – The

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

The “slow-witted beast” is a phrase borrowed from a recent lecture given by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, in which he sat down a few corporate journalists and told the brutal and honest truth to their faces. Calling the mainstream press a “brutish, slow-witted beast,” Stewart chastised them for the “false sense of urgency they create,…

The “slow-witted beast” is a phrase borrowed from a recent lecture given by Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, in which he sat down a few corporate journalists…

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Commentary

The Collapse Of The American Economy

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

By all nearly all accounts (except for the fervent Republican ideologues), the American economy is on the verge of collapse. Both Congress and Wall Street are moving very quickly to shift the burdens of greed and decadence from the insolvent banks to the backs of the taxpayers through a $700 million bailout. This expenditure is…

By all nearly all accounts (except for the fervent Republican ideologues), the American economy is on the verge of collapse. Both Congress and Wall Street are…

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Guest Commentary

McCain’s Deregulated Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost

By Paul Rockwell Guest Commentator

The deregulation of the financial industry is the primary cause of the latest Wall Street crash, an economic debacle that has befallen not only our nation, but European and Asian markets as well. John McCain bears grave responsibility for the financial anarchy of our times. For twenty-seven years, through debt-producing Reagonomics – especially deregulation –…

The deregulation of the financial industry is the primary cause of the latest Wall Street crash, an economic debacle that has befallen not only our nation,…

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Commentary

Properly Examining Ancient Egypt

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Until recently, there had been a scholarly debate among European intellectuals, as well as some Blacks, on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient Egypt. What this question really posed was, “Who were the ancient Egyptians?” Were they Black, white, mulatto, etc.? This issue has been at the core of European history, or…

Until recently, there had been a scholarly debate among European intellectuals, as well as some Blacks, on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient…

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Guest Commentary

Remembering John Coltrane

By Anyabwile Love Guest Commentator

By now many of you are aware of my deeply rooted interest in the life, music and metaphysics of musician John William Coltrane. On the dawn of his 82nd birthday (9/23) I figured it would be an appropriate time to share some things I have discovered in my research about this incredible master composer and…

By now many of you are aware of my deeply rooted interest in the life, music and metaphysics of musician John William Coltrane. On the dawn…

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