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March 5, 2009

Commentary

The Return of the Mulatto: The Green-Eyed Monster – The Fifth Column

By Dr. Jonathan David Farley Columnist

“You can’t write that about the president of the NAACP.” “Write what?” I said. “That,” Melissa told me, pointing at my notebook’s screen. “You’re calling him a ‘mulatto’?” “Well, that’s the definition, right? His father was white, his mother was black. I think.” I scratched my head. “Maybe he’s a quadroon.” Melissa rolled her eyes.…

“You can’t write that about the president of the NAACP.” “Write what?” I said. “That,” Melissa told me, pointing at my notebook’s screen. “You’re calling him…

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Commentary

Resident Evil 5: Still a Travesty on All Counts – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

“The Europeans laughed and the African joined in. They had assassinated my people as well as my new country… In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.” -Angelou, Maya. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. New York: Random House, Inc., 1986, pp. 51-52. June…

“The Europeans laughed and the African joined in. They had assassinated my people as well as my new country… In that second I was wounded. My…

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Commentary

Health Care: The Right Gets Away with Saying Government is Inefficient?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Many years ago, there was a meeting in New York City where a Washington union representative was explaining how we might get health care coverage for everyone. Unfortunately, the crux of the presentation was that coverage for all was to come from making the existing system more equitable. The existing system – if it was…

Many years ago, there was a meeting in New York City where a Washington union representative was explaining how we might get health care coverage for…

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Commentary

Garvey and Economic Independence

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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Commentary

Aspects of the General Economic Disaster – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

I am writing this commentary on an airplane. Several points will be made, each with relative brevity – at least for me. Now, I think that all but the most partisan Republicans would hope that Obama succeeds in efforts to fix the economy and stop wars. But, to an extent I think too great, he…

I am writing this commentary on an airplane. Several points will be made, each with relative brevity - at least for me. Now, I think that…

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Guest Commentary

On the Menace of the Vanishing Somali Youth

By Abukar Arman Guest Commentator

Somalia has a new government that many consider to possess what it takes to spearhead sustainable peace and bring the lawlessness of the past two decades to an end. However, this article is not about that, or about the so-called Somali piracy. This article is about mysteriously disappearing Somali boys ages 14-21. It’s also about…

Somalia has a new government that many consider to possess what it takes to spearhead sustainable peace and bring the lawlessness of the past two decades…

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Commentary

Let’s Talk About Race – or Maybe Not – Coverage of Obama and Ethnicity Says More About Media

By Janine Jackson

There were early indications that corporate media coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy would be squirm-inducing, putting on display the elite (mainly white) press corps’ murky ideas about race much more than any straightforward reckoning of black Americans’ situation or what an Obama presidency might mean for their concerns. Journalists were sometimes embarrassingly frank about how…

There were early indications that corporate media coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy would be squirm-inducing, putting on display the elite (mainly white) press corps’ murky ideas…

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