Issue: 303
December 11, 2008
Commentary
A Call for a Presidential Commission on Women – Women of Color
Columnist
Women of color are never more popular than when there is a need for strong voices in support of a cause. Other times, we are criticized as too loud or too aggressive. Just recently, someone called to say that Black women and other women of color should be jubilant that there will now be a…
Women of color are never more popular than when there is a need for strong voices in support of a cause. Other times, we are criticized…
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Guest Commentary
Somalia Ought to be Obama’s Litmus Test
Guest Commentator
Indeed, the historic victory of President-elect Obama has created profound prospect of hope and change that has swept through America. However, for millions across the world who have witnessed devastation, insecurity and chaos resulting from an imprudent US foreign policy, reality is a nightmare they cannot easily ignore. Here, Somalia comes to mind. Though Somalia…
Indeed, the historic victory of President-elect Obama has created profound prospect of hope and change that has swept through America. However, for millions across the world…
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Guest Commentary
The Face of America
Guest Commentator
I usually define myself as, first, a human being and a global citizen, committed to human rights for all. Second, a Palestinian Arab with American attributes. And third, a woman, conscious of that additional layer of discrimination with which women struggle, whatever their race, creed, or economic status. The president-elect’s unfolding appointments to the cabinet…
I usually define myself as, first, a human being and a global citizen, committed to human rights for all. Second, a Palestinian Arab with American attributes.…
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The African World
Israel Must End the Gaza blockade!
Editorial Board
When it comes to Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the silence is deafening, at least outside of Palestine. One wonders how many international conventions the Israelis need to break before there is an actual global outcry and action against their repeated human rights abuses against Palestine. The blockade of Gaza is only the latest in a…
When it comes to Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the silence is deafening, at least outside of Palestine. One wonders how many international conventions the Israelis need…
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Commentary
“How Obama Won” – Along the Color Line
Editorial Board
[“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion, inspired by the great tradition for political event columns written by W. E. B. Du Bois nearly a century ago. Re-prints are permitted by any Black-owned or Black-oriented publications…
[“Along The Color Line”, written by Manning Marable, PhD and distributed by.BlackCommentator.com, is a public educational and information service dedicated to fostering political dialogue and discussion,…
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Commentary
Red Alert: Human Beings Out There Dying!
Editorial Board
While I was thinking about writing this article, I thought about the murder manufactured to appear as a “self-inflected death” (suicide) in the middle of Michael Clayton. In the U.S. where billions are handed off to corporate cutthroats, the homeless (many of whom are unemployed workers and Iraq vets) are handed a death sentence. This…
While I was thinking about writing this article, I thought about the murder manufactured to appear as a “self-inflected death” (suicide) in the middle of Michael…
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Color of Law
A Book Review of the Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child
Executive Editor
There is perhaps no greater depth of sorrow one can experience than the loss of one’s child. It is the type of feeling that you would not wish on your worst enemy. Regardless of the age of death – whether a baby, a child or adult – or the circumstances – death in utero, or…
There is perhaps no greater depth of sorrow one can experience than the loss of one’s child. It is the type of feeling that you would…
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