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March 11, 2010

Commentary

Acorn Cleared by Brooklyn Court, But it Didn’t Come Through Unscathed

By John Funiciello Columnist

When anything threatens the status quo, powerful institutions shift into gear to knock down the threat and nothing illustrates that better than the recent attack on ACORN by the Republicans and others on the right. ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – has been in the sights of the right wing…

When anything threatens the status quo, powerful institutions shift into gear to knock down the threat and nothing illustrates that better than the recent attack on…

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Commentary

The Real Meaning of Education for African People

By Dr. Conrad Worrill Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Commentary

Black America Calling For “A Black Agenda”

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

There has been much ado about the very public feud television commentator, Tavis Smiley, is having with civil rights activist, Al Sharpton, over Tavis’ criticism of black leadership purportedly saying that President Barack Obama doesn’t need a “black agenda” after recently visiting the White House. It’s caused a firestorm of controversy, and a revival of…

There has been much ado about the very public feud television commentator, Tavis Smiley, is having with civil rights activist, Al Sharpton, over Tavis' criticism of…

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