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February 5, 2009

Cover Story

Ted Haggard’s Issues with his Homosexuality

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

After a publicity junket promoting the HBO documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard, which landed him on Oprah and Larry King Live, fallen evangelical star Haggard has risen from public obscurity to tell us he’s not gay. He’s “heterosexual with issues.” And the issues Haggard is referring to are his “sexual thoughts about men, but…

After a publicity junket promoting the HBO documentary, The Trials of Ted Haggard, which landed him on Oprah and Larry King Live, fallen evangelical star Haggard…

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The African World

No B.S.: We Need REAL National Healthcare!

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The other day I went to a community meeting sponsored by my Congressional Representative, Ms. Donna Edwards. Donna Edwards is a very progressive, long-time activist in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The meeting was organized for the purpose of going over, with her constituents, some of the issues and challenges that she is facing on Capitol…

The other day I went to a community meeting sponsored by my Congressional Representative, Ms. Donna Edwards. Donna Edwards is a very progressive, long-time activist in…

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Commentary

“Subversive Activity” in Kabul and Tehran

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Saudi financial support for the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine campaigns to overthrow the Soviet-backed regimes in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. Among the beneficiaries of this secret largesse was Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi entrepreneur who helped recruit Islamic zealots to serve with the Afghan rebels. -Michael T. Klare, Blood and Oil I’m concerned about…

Saudi financial support for the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine campaigns to overthrow the Soviet-backed regimes in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. Among the beneficiaries of this secret…

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Commentary

From Davos to Belem: A Take of Two Spirits

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

This years’ gathering at Davos appears to have been a complete dud. It’s hard for one who wasn’t there to say how complete but if President Obama is reading the reports from the celebrated Swiss mountaintop he has to be glad he didn’t go and that he didn’t send a high powered delegation. And the…

This years’ gathering at Davos appears to have been a complete dud. It’s hard for one who wasn’t there to say how complete but if President…

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Color of Law

A Book Review of Wage Theft In America, By Kim Bobo

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

-Qur’an 11:85 In this winter of economic discontent in America, many people feel as if they have been robbed, and in fact they have. Unscrupulous Wall Street investment managers run off with billions of dollars of hard-earned money. Retirement savings and 401k’s vanish without a trace and seemingly without a remedy. Unregulated markets allow banks…

-Qur’an 11:85 In this winter of economic discontent in America, many people feel as if they have been robbed, and in fact they have. Unscrupulous Wall…

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Commentary

Black History Month: What the Black Man Wants – A Speech

By Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass delivered the following speech on the subject: “The Equality of all men before the law” at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, April, 1865. The speech was given within days of the close of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln. What the Black Man Wants I…

Frederick Douglass delivered the following speech on the subject: "The Equality of all men before the law" at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society…

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Commentary

To My Comrades of All Colors the World Over, With Love

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Worse than those who deprecate the ongoing freedom and justice struggle are those who pretend to support it but who actually seek to cynically use it for personal gain. We must always remember what John Brown, Denmark Vessy, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, and so…

Worse than those who deprecate the ongoing freedom and justice struggle are those who pretend to support it but who actually seek to cynically use it…

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Commentary

Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, and the Future of Black Public Education – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

Ousted Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, and heir-apparent to Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King Who could have imagined that Arne Duncan—yep!, the one with the Bachelor’s in Sociology—Obama’s choice for Secretary of Education, would be welcomed by unanimous approval from Washington’s decision-makers? As King Duncan strolled down the Senate floor on January 13, no one…

Ousted Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, and heir-apparent to Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King Who could have imagined that Arne Duncan—yep!, the one with the Bachelor’s…

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