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July 23, 2009

Commentary

Obama at the NAACP – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

Well, despite what we hear to be something of a struggle within his administration about how close President Barack Obama should be to the African American community, he showed up at the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP and shouted out. At some points in his speech, I couldn’t tell who Obama was and who Ben…

Well, despite what we hear to be something of a struggle within his administration about how close President Barack Obama should be to the African American…

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Commentary

Racial Profiling Certainly is Not Over in America

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The City of Los Angeles made a big announcement that the biggest gang in the city, “the Code Blue” gang on the city payroll, the Los Angeles Police Department is being paroled from its eight year federal consent decree oversight. At least, partially anyway. Guess that means LAPD is still on probation with the feds…

The City of Los Angeles made a big announcement that the biggest gang in the city, “the Code Blue” gang on the city payroll, the Los…

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Commentary

A Handful of “Moderate” Democrats to Gut EFCA?

By John Funiciello Columnist

The handwriting was on the wall a few weeks ago when Solidarity America reported that President Obama’s new labor secretary, Hilda Solis, delivered the graduation speech at the National Labor College and didn’t even mention the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Now, a handful of so-called moderate Democrats have broken ranks with the rest of…

The handwriting was on the wall a few weeks ago when Solidarity America reported that President Obama’s new labor secretary, Hilda Solis, delivered the graduation speech…

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Commentary

NBUF 30th Annual National Convention: A Grand Success

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The 30th Annual National Convention of the National Black United Front that was held in Chicago, Illinois from July 16-19, 2009 was, in my judgment, a grand success. It was a grand success for many reasons. First, it was a grand success because many of the original founders of NBUF have continued to participate and…

The 30th Annual National Convention of the National Black United Front that was held in Chicago, Illinois from July 16-19, 2009 was, in my judgment, a…

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Commentary

A Nightmare with LA Public Schools – Unapologetically Young, Black and Female

By Jasmyne Cannick Columnist

Imagine that you’ve just completed getting your teenage African-American son through four of the most important years of his life, grades 9 through 12 in a public inner-city high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and you’re still not a grandparent and your son didn’t join a gang. But not only did you…

Imagine that you’ve just completed getting your teenage African-American son through four of the most important years of his life, grades 9 through 12 in a…

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Commentary

The Impact of SIPC’s Position – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

This commentary is being published in four parts. Let me start it with some comments that will surprise a lot of people. Irving Picard has taken a lot of heat. As readers know, this has occurred for many reasons, including: his novel, anti-statutory definition of net equity, which will likely injure thousands; his delay in…

This commentary is being published in four parts. Let me start it with some comments that will surprise a lot of people. Irving Picard has taken…

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Guest Commentary

Memoirs of a Lost Arab World

By Nadia Hijab Guest Commentator

“It was a trying time for dreamers,” Wadad Makdisi Cortas wrote of the year 1935. She was 26 and “yearned to speak my language, to read Arabic books, and to foster Arab independence and solidarity.” But she had just become the headmistress of a girls’ school in Lebanon that was a particular thorn in the…

“It was a trying time for dreamers,” Wadad Makdisi Cortas wrote of the year 1935. She was 26 and “yearned to speak my language, to read…

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