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Issue: 363

February 18, 2010

The African World

Snowed Under

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

(Note: If you missed it on the BC Facebook and twitter pages, click here to read Bill’s commentary “Don’t deny peaceful protests in West Bank” on CNN.com) In the middle of one of the worst weeks of snow that the Washington, DC area has seen, Republican opportunists have begun crowing—again—about how climate change is an…

(Note: If you missed it on the BC Facebook and twitter pages, click here to read Bill's commentary "Don't deny peaceful protests in West Bank" on…

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Commentary

Black Leaders in the White House: What happened, What next? – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

Recently, Dorothy Height of the National Congress of Negro Women, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, and Marc Morial of the National Urban League, wrote President Barack Obama asking for a meeting about the state of Black employment and with the ensuing invitation, all but Height went to…

Recently, Dorothy Height of the National Congress of Negro Women, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, and Marc Morial…

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Color of Law

A Sick Society Normalizes Gun Violence – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Sadly, it’s the sort of thing that happens on a regular basis these days. Someone, whether a disgruntled employee, a mentally unstable individual, a socially-awkward or obsessive person, you fill in the blank, goes on a shooting spree and exacts vengeance through the barrel of a gun. People express shock that this sort of thing…

Sadly, it’s the sort of thing that happens on a regular basis these days. Someone, whether a disgruntled employee, a mentally unstable individual, a socially-awkward or…

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Commentary

Black, queer and in Nazi Germany?!

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and “queer.” Valaida Snow, captured in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen and interned in a concentration camp for nearly two years, is one such story forgotten every Black History Month in celebrating our heroes…

Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and “queer.”…

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Commentary

Us Geezers & the ‘Commission” Plot

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

They’re at it again. Who are they? They are called many things: “the Establishment,” the “power elite,” the “central committee of the ruling class,— the “people who really run this country,” the “political leadership,” and so on. What are they up to? Having, through willful greed or gross mismanagement, brought the nation’s economy to a…

They’re at it again. Who are they? They are called many things: “the Establishment,” the “power elite,” the "central committee of the ruling class,— the “people…

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Commentary

Join Lavalas: “No ‘Death Plan’! Return Aristide!”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

“Today, the moment has come to fulfill that promise so that Aristide can return to participate in reconstruction” (Long memory Productions). The leaders of Lavalas ask: “if Obama can do it, then why can’t Preval?” That is, why can’t Preval stand side by side with Aristide – in Haiti if the U.S. president is able…

“Today, the moment has come to fulfill that promise so that Aristide can return to participate in reconstruction” (Long memory Productions). The leaders of Lavalas ask:…

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