Art
Quote to Ponder: “In some ways, the black woman is the most emotionally free adult…” – Sheri Parks
Guest Commentator
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Issue: 374
May 6, 2010
Cover Story
The Queen of the Chessboard – The Gambit
Editorial Board
“In some ways, the black woman is the most emotionally free adult in American society: freer to show love than many men, particularly black men; freer to show anger, even ferocity, than middle-class white women; freer to tell the blunt truth than just about any adult in polite society. She really is like the queen…
“In some ways, the black woman is the most emotionally free adult in American society: freer to show love than many men, particularly black men; freer…
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Commentary
A Letter to a Mother Unknown
Editorial Board
Share or Print this Page of BC | I am thinking about you this Mother’s Day, but what shall I call you? Mommy! Mommy? I never called anyone Mommy although I remember one day during my first spring semester at Union Theological Seminary in 1988 when I was rolled into St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Room…
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The African World
Kent State, Jackson State, Race & Resistance
Editorial Board
2010 seems to be the year for anniversaries, and the killings that took place at Kent State University (Ohio) and two weeks later at Jackson State College (Mississippi) are two that will go down in infamy. It is difficult for me to forget May 1970. When word spread about the inexcusable murders of the anti-Vietnam…
2010 seems to be the year for anniversaries, and the killings that took place at Kent State University (Ohio) and two weeks later at Jackson State…
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Commentary
No Banquets! Free Jamie and Gladys Scott!
Editorial Board
-Malcolm X Jamie Scott suffers from kidney disease. She receives inadequate medical care, but the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP in Mississippi last month (April) held a banquet, “NAACP: One Nation, One Dream,” to honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding service to the community. Christopher Epps, commissioner for the Mississippi Department of Corrections…
-Malcolm X Jamie Scott suffers from kidney disease. She receives inadequate medical care, but the Jackson County Branch of the NAACP in Mississippi last month (April)…
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Color of Law
Let Us Expand The Definition Of Terrorism – The
Executive Editor
I begin this commentary by looking up the word terrorism. One dictionary defines terrorism as “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.” Similarly, the U.S.…
I begin this commentary by looking up the word terrorism. One dictionary defines terrorism as “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by…
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