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Issue: 309

January 29, 2009

Cover Story

Progressive Activist and Actor Danny Glover Urges Financial Support for BlackCommentator.com

By Danny Glover Guest Commentator

Dear readers and supporters of BlackCommentator.com, You probably know me through my role as an actor. I have had many roles, on stage and in film, over the years, but today I am not playing a role. I am writing to you as one progressive activist to another. I need you to financially support BlackCommentator.com.…

Dear readers and supporters of BlackCommentator.com, You probably know me through my role as an actor. I have had many roles, on stage and in film,…

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Commentary

Republican Obstructionists Defeat Bi-Partisanship – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring America together and specifically attempt to work across party lines with Republicans in the governing process was laudable, but I always wondered if it would work. The principle reason is that the key to Republican power has been their remarkable clarity of ideology and the party discipline behind it.…

President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring America together and specifically attempt to work across party lines with Republicans in the governing process was laudable, but I…

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Commentary

President Obama’s First Week In Office – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

President Barack Obama’s first week in office was certainly filled with only the highest of expectation, given the eight years of Republican elephant poo-poo that was left on the White House floor for him. That’s a lot of poo-poo. Over 180,000 more jobs lost in January, 2009 (60,000 in a single day during his first…

President Barack Obama’s first week in office was certainly filled with only the highest of expectation, given the eight years of Republican elephant poo-poo that was…

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Guest Commentary

Obama And The Revolutionary Moment Without Revolutionaries – Part 3

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

(This is the concluding section of a three-part series – Read Part 1, Part 2) Revolutionary moments and revolutionary ruptures Generally a revolution is defined as a sudden overthrow of the existing social, economic and political order. But these revolutions (such as the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Chinese Revolution…

(This is the concluding section of a three-part series - Read Part 1, Part 2) Revolutionary moments and revolutionary ruptures Generally a revolution is defined as…

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The African World

Documenting the “Silent Depression”

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Growing up my father would regularly say to me that while the Great Depression officially ended during World War II, for African Americans it never really ended. While most economists would take issue with my father’s analysis, he was onto something that both mainstream economists and political figures wanted to avoid: structural racist oppression has…

Growing up my father would regularly say to me that while the Great Depression officially ended during World War II, for African Americans it never really…

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Color of Law

LaVena Johnson: Raped and Murdered on a Military Base in Iraq

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Have you heard about the story of LaVena Johnson? Well, maybe you should read on. LaVena Johnson, a high school honor student, decided to enlist in the Army in order to pay for college. On July 19, 2005, after serving eight weeks in Iraq, she was killed, just eight days short of her twentieth birthday.…

Have you heard about the story of LaVena Johnson? Well, maybe you should read on. LaVena Johnson, a high school honor student, decided to enlist in…

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Commentary

With Anger and Discomfort

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Bishop Eugene Robinson, 2009 Presidential Inaugural Opening Prayer Instructions should have been given to the helicopter pilot who removed King George from the Washington D.C. area to fly the King to the nearest prison facility to be held until charges of mass destruction and death were read to him. Darth Vader, too, should have been…

-Bishop Eugene Robinson, 2009 Presidential Inaugural Opening Prayer Instructions should have been given to the helicopter pilot who removed King George from the Washington D.C. area…

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Commentary

Why We Must Not Give Up In the Struggle

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice may not be televised but it will most definitely be organized, and it will continue. The corporate media will ignore and/or seek to distort and denigrate this struggle, but then that has been and continues to be the role of the media. We don’t need to be televised…

The revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice may not be televised but it will most definitely be organized, and it will continue. The corporate media will…

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