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Issue: 335

July 30, 2009

Commentary

SCLC Fight Against Gay Marriage – Unapologetically Young, Black and Female

By Jasmyne Cannick Columnist

Who’s pulling the strings? Fact. On any given day I can open up any one of most read daily newspapers and never once read anything about a Black civil rights group, that is, until one of those groups does something perceived as anti-gay and then its front page news. As is the case with the…

Who’s pulling the strings? Fact. On any given day I can open up any one of most read daily newspapers and never once read anything about…

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Commentary

The Full and Never Discussed Impact of the Net Equity Question – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

If readers remember not one other thing of what is written in this four-part commentary, I urge them to remember – and therefore am repeating yet again – the possibility that Picard’s definition of net equity may deprive them not just of $500,000, but also of any share in the estate. This possibility should be…

If readers remember not one other thing of what is written in this four-part commentary, I urge them to remember - and therefore am repeating yet…

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Guest Commentary

Israel’s Warships and Threat Diplomacy

By Nadia Hijab Guest Commentator

Two Israeli missile class warships sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Red Sea this week, some days after one of their nuclear submarines. The news barely blipped the media surface of the United States. It should have raised a few questions: Will Israel really attack Iran? What does the law have to say to…

Two Israeli missile class warships sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Red Sea this week, some days after one of their nuclear submarines. The news…

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Guest Commentary

White Men Can Jump – to Conclusions

By Rev. William E. Alberts Guest Commentator

In the recent confirmation hearings with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican members demonstrated that white men can jump – to conclusions. They concluded that Sotomayor lacked the required judicial impartiality because she told a Latino audience in a 2001 cultural diversity lecture, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman…

In the recent confirmation hearings with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the Senate Judiciary Committee Republican members demonstrated that white men can jump - to conclusions.…

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Commentary

Why African Americans Should Care About Foreign Assistance Reform

By Rev. Don Williams

During President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Ghana, he advised Africans to take responsibility for their destiny and stand up against corruption. In turn, African leaders urged the Obama administration to strengthen and improve U.S. foreign assistance. When I think of my brothers and sisters in Africa, I think about their struggles, past and present.…

During President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Ghana, he advised Africans to take responsibility for their destiny and stand up against corruption. In turn, African leaders…

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Guest Commentary

The Alter Ego of Humanity

By The Reverend D. D. Prather Guest Commentator

Out of all the positive commonalities that is shared among humanity there still remains an ignored taboo of both subdued and outright oppression that continues to permeate the fabric of our world. I never cease to be amazed and overcome with a sense of awe of mans inhumanity to man, and the notion of inferiority…

Out of all the positive commonalities that is shared among humanity there still remains an ignored taboo of both subdued and outright oppression that continues to…

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