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June 11, 2009

Commentary

The Power of a Non-Violent Movement

By John Funiciello Columnist

Considering the advancement of workers in America through the labor movement and the union movement – which has been, in the aggregate, a non-violent one – it’s hard to believe that the powerful people of the country have become so fearful of the Employee Free Choice Act. Throughout the history of unions in the U.S.,…

Considering the advancement of workers in America through the labor movement and the union movement - which has been, in the aggregate, a non-violent one -…

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Commentary

30th Annual National NBUF Convention

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The National Black United Front (NBUF) has reached an historic point in its history. That point in its history, is the convening of the 30th Annual National NBUF Convention that will be held July 16-19, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois at the Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies. This year’s convention theme is: “Turning…

The National Black United Front (NBUF) has reached an historic point in its history. That point in its history, is the convening of the 30th Annual…

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Guest Commentary

Attention, MOVE: This is America! – At the 24th anniversary of the May 13 massacre,

By Hans Bennett Guest Commentator

“Attention, MOVE: This Is America! You must abide by the laws of the United States!” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sambor declared through a loudspeaker, minutes before the May 13, 1985 police assault on the revolutionary MOVE organization’s home. This assault killed 5 children and 6 adults, including MOVE founder John Africa. That morning police shot over…

“Attention, MOVE: This Is America! You must abide by the laws of the United States!” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sambor declared through a loudspeaker, minutes before the…

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Commentary

Get That Colonization Off Your Crown, Michelle – From the Fringe

By K. Danielle Edwards Columnist

From the time Barack Obama became a fixture on the national stage, I have eyed Michelle Obama with an uneven mix of appreciation and disappointment. It’s not about her fashion sense, though she’s been ridiculed for accentuating her hips and baring her toned arms by folks with twisted aesthetic sensibilities and outright hate. It’s not…

From the time Barack Obama became a fixture on the national stage, I have eyed Michelle Obama with an uneven mix of appreciation and disappointment. It’s…

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Commentary

Black America’s Double-Dealing on Drugs – The Fifth Column

By Dr. Jonathan David Farley Columnist

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” So wrote current U.S. president Barack Obama about his youth. In May 2009, Jabrai Jordan Copney, a black man, allegedly shot Justin Cosby, a black man, inside a Harvard University dormitory. Cosby fled, collapsed a block away, and…

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” So wrote current U.S. president Barack Obama about his…

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Guest Commentary

Children of the Recession: Remembering “Manchild in the Promised Land”

By Dr. Henry A. Giroux Columnist

From the cover from “Manchild in the Promised Land:” When Claude Brown published “Manchild in the Promised Land” in 1965, he wrote about the doomed lives of his friends, family and neighborhood acquaintances. The book is mostly remembered as a brilliantly devastating portrait of Harlem under siege, ravaged and broken from drugs, poverty, unemployment, crime…

From the cover from “Manchild in the Promised Land:” When Claude Brown published “Manchild in the Promised Land” in 1965, he wrote about the doomed lives…

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