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June 25, 2009

Cover Story

Obama: “Tear Down That Wall” – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

In the heat of all the evaluations of the Administration of President Barack Obama, we should not let this moment pass that connects his speech in Cairo to the progressive movement in Iran. I don’t agree with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel very often, but on “Meet the Press,” Sunday June 21, he…

In the heat of all the evaluations of the Administration of President Barack Obama, we should not let this moment pass that connects his speech in…

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The African World

When Torture is Dismissed

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

Relativism: it may have happened, but it is not as bad as what the capitalists do. We on the Left are so afraid that any acknowledgement of a crime committed by a progressive or so-called progressive will give aid and comfort to the enemy that we respond in such a way as to discredit ourselves…

Relativism: it may have happened, but it is not as bad as what the capitalists do. We on the Left are so afraid that any acknowledgement…

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Color of Law

The Revolution Will Be Twitterized

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

If I learned one thing from the recent rebellions in Iran, it is this: the Iranian people have a lot of heart. These are folks you would want with you when times get tough. Strong folks, to be sure, particularly the women. They have endured beatings from the Ayatollah’s paramilitary motorcycle gang, the Basij. And…

If I learned one thing from the recent rebellions in Iran, it is this: the Iranian people have a lot of heart. These are folks you…

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Commentary

Obama’s Hush-Hush Meeting with LGBTQ Leaders

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office. The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars. But with a 74 percent disapproval rating the President now has with…

The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office. The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking…

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Commentary

The Poverty of the Mind: Hold On, Stay Strong, Carry On

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…Don’t you remember I told you that I’m a soldier in the war on poverty…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…” –Billy Preston— The United States of America is now in a period of not only deepening economic poverty plaguing the masses of Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples but has plummeted…

“…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…Don’t you remember I told you that I’m a soldier in the war on poverty…Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…” --Billy Preston— The…

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Commentary

Illusion, Reality & Courage in Iran

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

In the movie “The Year of Living Dangerously” the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by Mel Gibson, a talk about Indonesian puppets – the kind on sticks, which you can now sometime find in import shops in this country. The figures as shown are…

In the movie "The Year of Living Dangerously" the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by…

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Commentary

Some Thoughts on the Left from the Left

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Paul Robeson, Here I Stand (Kindle edition) Here I Stand (regular edition) There are circles meant to maintain and to strengthen, but there are others to dismantle for they are artificial creations of misery and suffering. No doubt, the U.S. Left is in trouble. In the last 40 years, “criminal” and “terrorists” propaganda campaigns, FBI…

-Paul Robeson, Here I Stand (Kindle edition) Here I Stand (regular edition) There are circles meant to maintain and to strengthen, but there are others to…

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Commentary

Iranian Uprisings & the Challenge of the New Media – Politics and the Subversive Imagination

By Dr. Henry A. Giroux Columnist

[We welcome Dr. Henry A. Giroux, PhD, as the newest BlackCommentator.com Columnist.] As the uprisings in Iran illustrate, the new electronic technologies and social networks they have produced have transformed both the landscape of media production and reception, and the ability of state power to define the borders and boundaries of what constitutes the very…

[We welcome Dr. Henry A. Giroux, PhD, as the newest BlackCommentator.com Columnist.] As the uprisings in Iran illustrate, the new electronic technologies and social networks they…

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