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Jul 15, 2010

Commentary

Cover Story: Oscar Grant & Remorse from Bureaucrats of Torture?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

El Hajj El Shabazz (Malcolm X) from a speech delivered at the London School of Economics, Feb. 11, 1965, to a meeting sponsored by the school’s Africa Society He did not murder Oscar Grant, but the young Black man lying face down on the BART station platform is dead. “My son was murdered,” Grant’s mother…

El Hajj El Shabazz (Malcolm X) from a speech delivered at the London School of Economics, Feb. 11, 1965, to a meeting sponsored by the school’s…

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Commentary

Wealth Gap Quadruples – Blacks Can’t Call it Progress

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

Let’s be crystal clear. There has never been full equality in the earning power between African Americans and white Americans. Our free labor for over 300 years (including sharecropping, another form of slavery) put us on a virtual treadmill where the earnings gap has never closed. Racist policies and laws helped to ensure the widening…

Let’s be crystal clear. There has never been full equality in the earning power between African Americans and white Americans. Our free labor for over 300…

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Commentary

Racial Discrimination in the Gulf Reconstruction – African American Leadership

By Dr. Ron Walters Editorial Board

The big story about the NAACP convention meeting in Kansas City was whether President Obama would come or not. But I think that Ben Jealous hit the right nerve in his opening speech to the Convention when he delivered a report that organization had put together from a series of meetings in affected communities in…

The big story about the NAACP convention meeting in Kansas City was whether President Obama would come or not. But I think that Ben Jealous hit…

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Commentary

Salivating for Catastrophe

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Salivating for Catastrophe Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The experiments by famed Russian scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, wherein he discovered that dogs would, with certain stimulus, begin to salivate even before being fed any food whatsoever is ominously akin to the mental state of affairs of much of the U.S. populace…

Salivating for Catastrophe Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The experiments by famed Russian scientist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, wherein he discovered that dogs…

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The African World

Book Review – Detailing the Unspoken Truths of a Deadly Relationship

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

[Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Pantheon Books, 2010). 324 pps. $18.45 hardcover] I could hardly contain my excitement after reading Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. So, I got on the phone and called a long-time friend who had been…

[Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Pantheon Books, 2010). 324 pps. $18.45 hardcover] I could hardly contain my…

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Color of Law

The California NAACP is Right to Support Prop 19 – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The California NAACP is Right to Support Prop 19 The Color of Law By David A. Love, JD BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor The war on drugs has been a war on communities of color, plain and simple. Some people realize that it is time to end a war that has devastated so many people, so many…

The California NAACP is Right to Support Prop 19 The Color of Law By David A. Love, JD BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor The war on drugs has…

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Commentary

California NAACP for Legalizing Pot – Is Somebody High for Real? – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

California is seeking to legalize marijuana this November. You knew it was just a matter of time before the signatures were gathered, given the legalization of marijuana for medicinal use passed in the state a few years back. Baby boomer “hippies” turn 65 this year. If anybody is going to get marijuana legalized, the “free…

California is seeking to legalize marijuana this November. You knew it was just a matter of time before the signatures were gathered, given the legalization of…

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Commentary

U.S. Postal System Being Destroyed By Privatization

By John Funiciello Columnist

The recent announcement that the U.S. Postal Service is going to ask for an increase of two cents for a first class stamp and is considering closing of post offices and delivery on Saturdays should alarm citizens who are advocates of free speech and open communications in America. It isn’t just the two-cent increase, from…

The recent announcement that the U.S. Postal Service is going to ask for an increase of two cents for a first class stamp and is considering…

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