Issue: 373

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Political Cartoon: Arizona Immigration Law

By Eric Garcia bc Cartoonist/Artist

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Commentary

Another Big Lie: The Myth of ‘Main Street Versus Wall Street

By Larry Pinkney bc Editorial Board

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When reality is replaced by illusion it is always at the expense and pain of everyday people. Corporate media sound bites of illusion, omission, and disinformation have replaced any semblance of the dissemination of truth or the systemic reasons for the intensifying pain and suffering of everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples in…

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When reality is replaced by illusion it is always at the expense and pain of everyday people. Corporate media sound bites of illusion, omission, and disinformation…

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Commentary

A Response to Skip Gates’ Call for Slavery Absolution

By Dr. Barbara Ransby bc Editorial Board

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In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” (April 23) Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates calls on the United States” first Black president to end the nation’s sense of responsibility for the legacy of slavery. It is a pernicious argument, well suited to the so-called “postracial” moment we are in. Like…

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In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” (April 23) Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates calls on the United States" first Black…

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Commentary

Torture and Genocide

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD bc Editorial Board

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Share or Print this Page of BC | Jamie (38) lives in Mississippi, in what many call the post-racial era. Jim Crow legislation is over, some say. A “Black” man is Head of State. But Jamie lies on her bed, tired and weak. She needs adequate kidney dialysis treatment because she suffers from kidney failure.…

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Share or Print this Page of BC | Jamie (38) lives in Mississippi, in what many call the post-racial era. Jim Crow legislation is over, some…

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The Looming Educational Catastrophe is Scary. Indeed

By Carl Bloice bc Editorial Board

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Obama Administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in Peoria, Il last week expressing alarm that some cities and states, facing a financial crunch are reducing ” or contemplating reducing – the school week to four days. He also bemoaned the fact that nationwide as many as 300,000 teachers could be out of their jobs when…

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Obama Administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in Peoria, Il last week expressing alarm that some cities and states, facing a financial crunch are reducing "…

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ROTC Marching Its Way Back Onto Harvard’s Campus

By The Reverend Irene Monroe bc Editorial Board

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For decades the Reserve Officers” Training Corps( ROTC) was an unwelcome sight on Ivy League college campuses, like Harvard University, because of its ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) servicemembers. But in February of this year, when the nation’s top two Defense officials, Defense Secretary, Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman…

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For decades the Reserve Officers" Training Corps( ROTC) was an unwelcome sight on Ivy League college campuses, like Harvard University, because of its ban on lesbian,…

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The National Action Network (NAN) Conference – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters bc Editorial Board

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Rev. Al Sharpton, head of NAN, should be congratulated for pulling off a remarkable conference that contained a nationally televised Symposium of African American leaders. The main highlights of the discussion, moderated by Roland Martin of MSNBC and Radio One, were political and economic empowerment and the development of the Black family. The main point…

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Rev. Al Sharpton, head of NAN, should be congratulated for pulling off a remarkable conference that contained a nationally televised Symposium of African American leaders. The…

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