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Issue: 401

Nov 11, 2010

Cover Story

Finance, Fraud and Foreclosure

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

In the book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem–and Themselves , it is reported that on September 13, 2008, Larry Fink got on the plane to Singapore. The report on the Saga of the week of September 7-14, 2008 further commented on his…

In the book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves , it is reported…

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Color of Law

We Need a Competency Test For Elected Officials – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Where do they find these people? I’m talking about those crazy-talking Tea Party types, ultra-conservative Republicans posing as legitimate lawmakers and politicians, some of them even passing themselves off as senators, members of Congress and governors. Now, before you say anything, I am not naïve about politics. I know that politics has always attracted some…

Where do they find these people? I’m talking about those crazy-talking Tea Party types, ultra-conservative Republicans posing as legitimate lawmakers and politicians, some of them even…

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Commentary

Veterans Day 2010 – Give Peace a Chance – Leftward-Ho

By Peter Gamble Publisher

I am a veteran. I did not experience combat, however, members of my family did and friends and people I have known did. War kills human beings and causes emotional damage. On this Veteran’s Day in 2010 I offer the following words of others in an effort to renew our spirit in the struggle for…

I am a veteran. I did not experience combat, however, members of my family did and friends and people I have known did. War kills human…

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Commentary

The Scott Sisters: Has Jamie Scott Been Handed the Death Penalty?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The Scott Sisters: Has Jamie Scott Been Handed the Death Penalty? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board In 1989, Michael David Graham decides to end his ex-wife’s life. He points a shotgun at her and that is it. In 2008, his governor, Haley Barbour, suspends his life sentence, and…

The Scott Sisters: Has Jamie Scott Been Handed the Death Penalty? Represent Our Resistance By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board In 1989, Michael…

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Commentary

Sectarianism and the Impotence of the U.S. Left

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Sectarianism and the Impotence of the U.S. Left Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board It’s time to be blunt. Much (though certainly not all) of what is loosely termed the political “left” in the United States, has a stymieing and self-inflicted Achilles heel known as sectarianism. The American Heritage College dictionary defines…

Sectarianism and the Impotence of the U.S. Left Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board It’s time to be blunt. Much (though certainly not…

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Commentary

Not Only “For Colored Girls”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

If you’re looking for Madea (Tyler Perry in front of the camera in drag), or Black-faced versions of “Sex in the City” or “He’s Just Not That Into You” then Mr. Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 womanist choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” will gravely disappoint you. And…

If you’re looking for Madea (Tyler Perry in front of the camera in drag), or Black-faced versions of “Sex in the City” or “He’s Just Not…

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The African World

Racial profiling, Henry Louis Gates and why you should read Charles Ogletree’s “The Presumption of Guilt”

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

In 1981 a good friend of mine and I drove from Boston to Detroit for a labor conference. At the tail end of the conference I was asked if I could give a ride to a Scandinavian woman who was attending the conference. Apparently she wanted to get back to the East Coast. My friend…

In 1981 a good friend of mine and I drove from Boston to Detroit for a labor conference. At the tail end of the conference I…

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Commentary

American Workers Ask: Where’d My Job Go?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, has been in the news recently because he suggested that “outsourcing” most of American manufacturing to other countries in the past several decades was done without much thought to the long-term consequences. We could have told him that. It was about 30 years ago that rank-and-file union members were…

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, has been in the news recently because he suggested that “outsourcing” most of American manufacturing to other countries in the…

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