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April 8, 2010

Cover Story

Why the new health insurance law is so short-sighted – Part 43 of a BC Series

By Ethel Long-Scott Editorial Board

The trouble with the new health insurance law just signed by President Obama is that it’s amazingly short-sighted for a law that takes eight years to become fully operational. By not dealing with four fundamental problems, the new law is equivalent to trying to ease a housing shortage by adding more floors to the tops…

The trouble with the new health insurance law just signed by President Obama is that it’s amazingly short-sighted for a law that takes eight years to…

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Commentary

April 3, 1968 – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated. Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself,…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Commentary

War is the Enemy of the Poor

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Share or Print this Page of BC | Emmett Till, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, Viola Liuzzo, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and others who organized, marched, and sacrificed their time and their lives forced Johnson to pick up his pen and sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and…

Share or Print this Page of BC | Emmett Till, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, Viola Liuzzo, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia…

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Color of Law

A Klan by any Other Name Would Smell as Racist – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Can’t we just call them what they really are? I speak of the Tea Party crowd that hates Obama and thinks he’s a socialist, fascist, communist Muslim who was born in Kenya and pals around with terrorists. They have allies in the Republican Party, and enablers on Fox News and rightwing talk radio. And I…

Can’t we just call them what they really are? I speak of the Tea Party crowd that hates Obama and thinks he’s a socialist, fascist, communist…

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The African World

Social Forum and Social Struggle

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

This June 22 ” 26 in Detroit, Michigan, thousands of people are expected to attend the 2nd United States Social Forum (USSF). Inspired by the World Social Forum (WSF), an international gathering of progressive organizations and individuals operating under the banner of “Another World is Possible,” the first USSF (Atlanta 2007) brought together a very…

This June 22 " 26 in Detroit, Michigan, thousands of people are expected to attend the 2nd United States Social Forum (USSF). Inspired by the World…

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Commentary

A Time to Break Silence – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

Some will notice that the title of this missive comes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” when he challenged the war then being waged in the name of global anti-Communism that conflicted with fighting the evils of racism, militarism and materialism at home. These evils still rage…

Some will notice that the title of this missive comes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” when he…

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Commentary

On Accomplishing the Impossible

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The impossible is, more often than not, that for which we have set limitations, and convinced ourselves simply cannot be done. Clearly, the increasing joblessness, home foreclosures, continuing bloody U.S. wars abroad, cynical racism, gross economic inequities and social injustices at home, and the constant government and media disinformation, omissions, and subterfuge have brought some…

The impossible is, more often than not, that for which we have set limitations, and convinced ourselves simply cannot be done. Clearly, the increasing joblessness, home…

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Commentary

Fewer Mine Deaths, But Still Too Many in the U.S

By John Funiciello Columnist

It’s as if we didn’t have the power and the technology to stop most tragedies in the mines of America, but it’s obvious that we lack the will to do so. Monday’s mine disaster in southern West Virginia killed 25 miners and left four missing at a Massey coal mine in Montcoal, W.Va. It was…

It’s as if we didn’t have the power and the technology to stop most tragedies in the mines of America, but it’s obvious that we lack…

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