November 19, 2009
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
As I rode into Texas, the stories began to come out of the fields. I was talking to a man. He said, “There used to be a lot of black families right over here, this section of town, all along here. But they are all gone now. But maybe they didn’t leave.” “What do you…
As I rode into Texas, the stories began to come out of the fields. I was talking to a man. He said, “There used to be…
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Art
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Cover Story
Columnist
Who was rescued? Not the thousands of auto workers who had already been stripped of salaries and benefits by corporate heads whose incomes increased. Now, auto workers are expected to work at less than a fourth of their previous salaries. People who once were middle class are now poor, working class people who can never…
Who was rescued? Not the thousands of auto workers who had already been stripped of salaries and benefits by corporate heads whose incomes increased. Now, auto…
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The African World
Editorial Board
The mainstream news media in the USA is very curious. They can find the opportunity to display information regarding the “Tea-Party” activists with their anti-Obama irrationality with several thousand people coming to Washington, DC. They can give major attention to an anti-healthcare rally held the day after the recent elections. Yet in October the island…
The mainstream news media in the USA is very curious. They can find the opportunity to display information regarding the “Tea-Party” activists with their anti-Obama irrationality…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A decade ago, Jobs with Justice was established in St. Louis. It joined a growing number of cities that make up an expansive grid under the national Jobs with Justice founded in 1987. JwJ chapters build a coalition of labor, religious, student and community organizations that are committed to working on issues that impact workers.…
A decade ago, Jobs with Justice was established in St. Louis. It joined a growing number of cities that make up an expansive grid under the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
For the nations that were a part of President Obama’s recent Asian tour, surely this was a new experience for them. For the first time, they greeted and hosted the most powerful person in the world, one of the most brilliant people they’ve ever met. And for the first time, that person is a man…
For the nations that were a part of President Obama’s recent Asian tour, surely this was a new experience for them. For the first time, they…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The world is waiting for the newest Deciders to decide the fate of Afghani citizens and thousands of U.S. troops preparing to deploy to the land where Empires come to die. Do I send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan? He is thinking or, rather for General Stanley McCrystal, stalling the Empire’s Manifest Destiny plans. President…
The world is waiting for the newest Deciders to decide the fate of Afghani citizens and thousands of U.S. troops preparing to deploy to the land…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Columnist Paul Krugman has a problem. Well, not really. It’s us who have the problem. He just has a provocative way of highlighting it. He’s said it before and he repeated it again last week: What we ought to do, we probably cannot do because it’s not in the political cards. Why? Because while we…
Columnist Paul Krugman has a problem. Well, not really. It’s us who have the problem. He just has a provocative way of highlighting it. He’s said…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the largest African American and largest Pentecostal church in the United States. And as the largest denominational black church in the country it is also the loudest in rebuking homosexuality. With many of the gospel music industry mega-stars from the COGIC, the church’s charismatic worship style shouts…
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the largest African American and largest Pentecostal church in the United States. And as the largest denominational black…
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