Issue: 334
July 23, 2009
Commentary
Key Vote on Single Payer Healthcare – Phone Today
Guest Commentator
Phone Congress Now to Support Single Payer HealthCare
Phone Congress Now to Support Single Payer HealthCare
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The African World
Moon-walking?
Editorial Board
July 20, 1969 I was in Hyannis, Massachusetts. I was watching all the coverage of the moon landing and was positively thrilled. Yes, I was aware, as the Black Panther Party warned at the time, that this moon landing could be the harbinger of an expansion of imperialism into outer space, but I saw in…
July 20, 1969 I was in Hyannis, Massachusetts. I was watching all the coverage of the moon landing and was positively thrilled. Yes, I was aware,…
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Commentary
Living While Black in Cambridge
Editorial Board
None of us African-American residents of Cambridge are surprised or shocked by the humiliation and harassment Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 58, of Harvard University encountered at the hands of Cambridge police. My partner, Dr.Thea James, an Emergency Room physician who would drive from home to work was stopped all the time for “driving while…
None of us African-American residents of Cambridge are surprised or shocked by the humiliation and harassment Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 58, of Harvard University encountered…
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Commentary
Reverend Edward Pinkney: A Champion of the People
Editorial Board
“…We believe that every community has the right to define, determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people.” -Huey P. Newton For well over five years now, Reverend Edward Pinkney (no relation), living in the depths of the de facto apartheid-type township of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been waging a…
“…We believe that every community has the right to define, determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people.” -Huey P. Newton…
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Commentary
When Pools Reflect Race Relations
Editorial Board
Recently, the Fairgrounds Park race riot of 1949 was acknowledged. The riot erupted when the City of St. Louis attempted to integrate the pool. For the occasion of the 60th anniversary, I interviewed civil rights activist Robert Gammon, one of the black kids who got the word that they could swim in the once segregated…
Recently, the Fairgrounds Park race riot of 1949 was acknowledged. The riot erupted when the City of St. Louis attempted to integrate the pool. For the…
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Commentary
Michael Steele’s Impossible Mission
Editorial Board
Richard Parsons is called upon to take the helm at distressed Citigroup and Barack Obama assumes leadership of the United States. I have to admit I’ve had moments of misgivings about all this. I would prefer that African Americans rise to authority and responsibility over things that are doing well rather than faltering but, hey,…
Richard Parsons is called upon to take the helm at distressed Citigroup and Barack Obama assumes leadership of the United States. I have to admit I’ve…
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Commentary
Leonard Peltier and the Indigenous People
Editorial Board
I know this. My life has a meaning. I refuse to believe that this existence, our time on Mother Earth, is meaningless. I believe that the Creator, Wakan Tanka, has shaped each of our lives for a reason. I don’t know what that reason is. Maybe I’ll never know. But you don’t have to know…
I know this. My life has a meaning. I refuse to believe that this existence, our time on Mother Earth, is meaningless. I believe that the…
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Color of Law
Republicans Display Their Racial Hatred at Sotomayor Hearings
Executive Editor
I learned very little about nothing much in particular from the Sonia Sotomayor hearings. I already knew that Sotomayor has impeccable credentials, and is far more intelligent than many of the senators, and all of the GOP senators, who were in judgment of her. I heard a great deal about the Republican agenda – as…
I learned very little about nothing much in particular from the Sonia Sotomayor hearings. I already knew that Sotomayor has impeccable credentials, and is far more…
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