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Issue: 331

July 2, 2009

Guest Commentary

1 – Urgent Request To Support Restoration Of Honduran President Zelaya

By Danny Glover Guest Commentator

Please join me in solidarity with the people of Honduras to determine their own future. I urge all to support the citizens of Honduras in their demand that President Manuel Zelaya be restored immediately to his constitutionally elected post and authority as President of Honduras. It is imperative that citizens across the United States write…

Please join me in solidarity with the people of Honduras to determine their own future. I urge all to support the citizens of Honduras in their…

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Guest Commentary

2 – Obama Has the Power-and Responsibility- to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras

By Roberto Lovato Guest Commentator

Viewed from a distance, the streets of Honduras look, smell and sound like those of Iran: Expressions of popular anger- burning vehicles, large marches and calls for justice in a non-English language- aimed at a constitutional violation of the people’s will (the coup took place on the eve of a poll of voters asking if…

Viewed from a distance, the streets of Honduras look, smell and sound like those of Iran: Expressions of popular anger- burning vehicles, large marches and calls…

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Commentary

Clarence Thomas: Wrong on Voting Rights – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

It is worth noting that when the Supreme Court rendered its most recent decision on whether to uphold Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the Austin Municipal district case, Justice Clarence Thomas was the only one to vote against it in the 8-1 decision. That isolated vote was a monumental confirmation of many…

It is worth noting that when the Supreme Court rendered its most recent decision on whether to uphold Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in…

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Commentary

Global Terror: Censorship to Exterminate

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the last 41 years, poor and working class Blacks have increasingly tuned out in ways unlike enslaved Blacks or Blacks during the years of the Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era. In part, the corporate media is to blame with its emphasis on ratings and profits. Sitcoms, TV personalities,…

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the last 41 years, poor and working class Blacks have increasingly tuned out in ways unlike enslaved Blacks or Blacks…

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The African World

Meeting Agent Orange

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

You mention “Agent Orange” and some people think that you are talking about a spy movie. For others, particularly those who know anything about the Vietnam War, they tend to think that it is something out of the distant past, perhaps an unfortunate historical episode. “Agent Orange” is the name for an extremely toxic defoliant…

You mention “Agent Orange” and some people think that you are talking about a spy movie. For others, particularly those who know anything about the Vietnam…

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Color of Law

A Homegoing For My Father

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Welcome to my father’s homegoing! He was a simple man with an extraordinary life, A Georgia boy, born and raised in a wooden shack in Augusta, In the heart of Jim Crow, With segregation all around, And with lynchings always waiting just around the corner, Born to a Black Mama, And his old man was…

Welcome to my father’s homegoing! He was a simple man with an extraordinary life, A Georgia boy, born and raised in a wooden shack in Augusta,…

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Commentary

On Transformers 2: Why Hollywood Movies Are Racist – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

Hollywood movies are as racist as they come. The recently released Transformers sequel (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is no different. In the last week or so, as many have approached theaters where it was being shown, the consensus has been unifying – historical Black stereotypes are evoked in this blockbuster action thriller. Last week,…

Hollywood movies are as racist as they come. The recently released Transformers sequel (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is no different. In the last week or…

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Commentary

Weak Links in the Chain

By John Funiciello Columnist

From time to time, the powers-that-be give us a new set of “burning questions” to chew on, mull over for a while, then they’re on to the next set, with a different set of burning questions to take our minds off the last set. Inevitably, this happens before the current set of burning questions is…

From time to time, the powers-that-be give us a new set of “burning questions” to chew on, mull over for a while, then they’re on to…

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