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Issue: 321

April 23, 2009

Guest Commentary

Africa Is Not a Proverb

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi Guest Commentator

Restoring a radical discourse on Africa – these words, I felt, had gone awry right from the moment they escaped my tongue; or rather, as soon as with great effort I rolled them down my tongue, and into the microphone only to see them spill at the feet of the audience. Caution – Enter at…

Restoring a radical discourse on Africa – these words, I felt, had gone awry right from the moment they escaped my tongue; or rather, as soon…

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Cover Story

The Somali Pirates!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-African Proverb As Frantz Fanon wrote, “when you examine at close quarters the colonial context, it is evident that what parcels out the world is to begin with the fact of belonging to or not belonging to a given race.” The world’s history is written in the language of those who control human and material…

-African Proverb As Frantz Fanon wrote, “when you examine at close quarters the colonial context, it is evident that what parcels out the world is to…

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Color of Law

Lobbyist Money + Right-Wing Extremists = Tea Party

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The tea parties that recently took place around the country were billed as a grassroots, bottom-up groundswell against taxes, big government and bailouts. Fox News, apparently promoting itself as the official teabag network, hopes to grab ratings by embracing the pseudo-populist protests as their own. Republican politicians tried to hitch onto the mean-spirited tea party…

The tea parties that recently took place around the country were billed as a grassroots, bottom-up groundswell against taxes, big government and bailouts. Fox News, apparently…

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The African World

Crossing the Room to Greet Hugo

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

No, it was not on the scale of President Sadat’s surprise visit to Jerusalem or President Nixon’s visit to Maoist China, but President Obama’s greeting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas was certainly noteworthy. First, contrary to the arrogance often associated with the US elite, President Obama did not wait for…

No, it was not on the scale of President Sadat's surprise visit to Jerusalem or President Nixon's visit to Maoist China, but President Obama's greeting Venezuelan…

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Commentary

Obama Should Have Attended UN Racism Conference – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

I am missing something here. President Barack Obama just went to Europe and Iraq and made speeches saying that he would be deferential to Communist China, that he would meet without conditions with the leadership of Iran and that he wanted to open up a new relationship with the Islamic world. Then he went to…

I am missing something here. President Barack Obama just went to Europe and Iraq and made speeches saying that he would be deferential to Communist China,…

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