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Sep 2, 2010

The African World

Faith, Family, Freedom…and a Progressive Agenda

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

I was driving through a neighboring county and saw a political poster for a right-wing candidate. I had noticed his sloganeering over the past few months and knew that he was some sort of Tea Party-aligned individual. The slogan on his poster read: “Faith, Family, Freedom.” To be honest, I had a Pavlovian experience. In…

I was driving through a neighboring county and saw a political poster for a right-wing candidate. I had noticed his sloganeering over the past few months…

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Commentary

Creeping Fascism and the American Politics of Madness

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

There was a very revealing story that made it in the news recently, but did not get the attention one would expect. A DNA test was performed on 39 living relatives of Adolph Hitler. And the results were stunning: The Haplogroup E1b1b1 chromosome was found in the samples, which is rare in Western Europe, and…

There was a very revealing story that made it in the news recently, but did not get the attention one would expect. A DNA test was…

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Commentary

Who am I? Control the Response, Get a Slave for Life!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to whites; in reason much inferior…and that in imagination, they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous…I advance it therefore…that the blacks…are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind. (Notes on the…

Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to whites; in reason much inferior…and…

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Commentary

Weimar Lessons, the Obama Disaster, & the Extreme Right

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

History’s lessons serve no purpose when they are ignored. Moreover, when theses lessons go unheeded, the cycle of disaster is invariably repeated with commensurately greater consequences. The U.S. Empire’s perpetual corporate / military wars and occupations, while enriching a relatively tiny avaricious elite, are bankrupting and utterly decimating the masses of everyday Black, White, Brown,…

History’s lessons serve no purpose when they are ignored. Moreover, when theses lessons go unheeded, the cycle of disaster is invariably repeated with commensurately greater consequences.…

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Commentary

Middle East Peace Process – Reality or Charade?

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The way the major mass media tells it, the only significant dissenting Palestinian voice about the wisdom of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accepting the invitation to travel to Washington for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama is the militant group Hamas. Not by a long shot. Eleven groups, including…

The way the major mass media tells it, the only significant dissenting Palestinian voice about the wisdom of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accepting the invitation to…

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Commentary

Essence Magazine’s True Color

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

There has been a color change at “Essence.” After forty years of having sisters from the African Diaspora as its fashion director, the new one is white. And the news is sending seismic shock waves to many of its subscribers here in the U.S. and across the globe. New fashion director Ellana Placas, however, is…

There has been a color change at "Essence." After forty years of having sisters from the African Diaspora as its fashion director, the new one is…

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Commentary

How Close Is “Too Close” & How Far Is Far Enough?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Millions of Americans have weighed in on the proposed Islamic Center two blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City, but few of the people who rabidly oppose construction and the pundits and others who analyze the debate look at the reality at street level. We’ll have to assume…

Millions of Americans have weighed in on the proposed Islamic Center two blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City,…

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Commentary

Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally – America’s Social Retreat – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The conservative right continued its deafening drum beat to a return to yesterday with a rally this past weekend on the 47 anniversary of the most celebrated march date of the 20th Century Civil Rights movement. Called the “Restoring America’s Honor” rally, it was led by conservative talk show host, Glenn Beck, and featured him…

The conservative right continued its deafening drum beat to a return to yesterday with a rally this past weekend on the 47 anniversary of the most…

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