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Oct 7, 2010

Commentary

Self Determination And Education

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Commentary

May 13, 1985 – MOVE And the Legalization of Murder

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

On May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization’s house at 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. The bomb started a fire that was allowed to burn, and eventually destroyed 61 homes, leaving 250 people homeless: the entire block of…

On May 13, 1985, a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof of the MOVE Organization’s house at…

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Cover Story

American Media Treatment of Two Rallies

By John Funiciello Columnist

So much for the “liberal” media. If there ever was proof needed about where the sympathies of the major news outlets lie, it was in the coverage of the “One Nation” march and rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. over the past weekend. The right wing loves to accuse the “media” of liberal…

So much for the “liberal” media. If there ever was proof needed about where the sympathies of the major news outlets lie, it was in the…

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The African World

Where We Go After the October 2nd Rallies

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

The October 2nd rallies, sponsored by the One Nation Working Together Coalition, have received a curious response in both the mainstream and progressive media. Needless to say, one can assume a cynical approach by Fox News, but in the more mainstream media there were a range of views from tepid to curious to ignoring altogether.…

The October 2nd rallies, sponsored by the One Nation Working Together Coalition, have received a curious response in both the mainstream and progressive media. Needless to…

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Color of Law

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By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Diversity in the Tea Party? Now, that’s a contradiction in terms. FreedomWorks—a corporate lobbying group behind the Tea Party movement— has announced that it has launched an outreach effort to minority groups including African-Americans, Latinos and Jews. The outreach and advertising campaign, called DiverseTea, is a response to claims, substantiated claims I might add, that…

Diversity in the Tea Party? Now, that’s a contradiction in terms. FreedomWorks—a corporate lobbying group behind the Tea Party movement— has announced that it has launched…

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Commentary

The Centrists Still Just Don’t Get It

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Thomas Friedman has my empathy, as in I feel for you bro. I think he really is alarmed. He just got back from Beijing and while there h e wrote back, “China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say ‘moon shots’ I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least…

Thomas Friedman has my empathy, as in I feel for you bro. I think he really is alarmed. He just got back from Beijing and while…

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