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November 13, 2008

Cover Story

Proposition 8 is Not About Black Homophobia

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

I have learned as both a pastor and also as a member belonging to several minority groups – African-American, women and lesbian – that a popular opinion on a civil rights issue does not always reflect the right choice. Too often the right choice and the moral high ground on an issue derive from small…

I have learned as both a pastor and also as a member belonging to several minority groups - African-American, women and lesbian - that a popular…

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Commentary

Stupid American Videos or “Is Our Children Learning?”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

– James Baldwin, Nothing Personal. History as record embraces the monuments, documents, and symbols which provide such knowledge as we have or can find respecting past actuality. But it is history as thought, not as actuality, record, or specific knowledge, that is really meant when the term history is used in its widest and most…

- James Baldwin, Nothing Personal. History as record embraces the monuments, documents, and symbols which provide such knowledge as we have or can find respecting past…

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Commentary

Anger & Hope: Haitian Families Furious Over School Collapse – Justice Watch

By Bill Quigley Columnist

“No one cares about the children, living or dead,” one furious father of children in the collapsed school outside of Port au Prince Haiti swore Sunday in an interview. “No one has come to provide any counseling to the children and families who survived. Nothing has been done for the families whose children died. The…

“No one cares about the children, living or dead,” one furious father of children in the collapsed school outside of Port au Prince Haiti swore Sunday…

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Commentary

African World – Balkanisation and Crisis in Eastern Congo Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Speaks to Pambazuka News

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

This is a reprint of a recent interview conducted by Pambazuka News with Congolese leader Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba Introduction by –Bill Fletcher, Jr., BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor Wamba, as he is generally known, is a is a leading Marxist thinker and activist who spent many years in exile in the USA during the reign of the notorious…

This is a reprint of a recent interview conducted by Pambazuka News with Congolese leader Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba Introduction by --Bill Fletcher, Jr., BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor Wamba,…

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Commentary

Barack Obama: The Test of Black CommUNITY – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

-Renowned Poet and Activist, Amiri Baraka, in a speech earlier this year. The Black CommUNITY has laid its bed and must now lie in it. To be sure, this author is not particularly pleased with the 95% level of unconditional support from the Black CommUNITY, vis-à-vis Obama’s presidential bid. Nevertheless, Obama’s unpredictable popularity within the…

-Renowned Poet and Activist, Amiri Baraka, in a speech earlier this year. The Black CommUNITY has laid its bed and must now lie in it. To…

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Commentary

Patco, A Union Perhaps Forgotten, But Not Gone

By John Funiciello Columnist

Those observers of organized labor who can remember as far back as 1981 can recall that the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was destroyed by presidential fiat when they struck over conditions in the towers. Well, it turns out that the union may have been pretty well forgotten, but it is not gone and…

Those observers of organized labor who can remember as far back as 1981 can recall that the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was destroyed by…

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Commentary

Education for African People: The Real Meaning

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Guest Commentary

UFCW – Smithfield Settlement: One Step Forward & Hopefully Not Two Steps Backward!

By Saladin Muhammad Guest Commentator

The announcement of a settlement between the UFCW and the Smithfield Company represents an important juncture and possible victory on the one hand, as it shows the impact of a sustained and social movement type union campaign that organizes workers and consumers against this giant corporation and plant in North Carolina. The state, with very…

The announcement of a settlement between the UFCW and the Smithfield Company represents an important juncture and possible victory on the one hand, as it shows…

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