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Nov 18, 2010

Commentary

Remembering Trans Heroine Rita Hester

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

This weekend is the 12th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR,) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of their gender identities or gender expressions. The purpose of TDOR is to raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgendered people and to honor their lives that might otherwise…

This weekend is the 12th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR,) and many of us across the nation will be memorializing transgender Americans murdered because of…

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Commentary

What’s the Cost of America’s Prison-Building Frenzy of the Past Three Decades?

By John Funiciello Columnist

It was couched in terms of rural economic development, but the prison-building frenzy of the 1970s and 1980s carried a hidden cost – social disruption of urban families and a gross distortion of rural economies. As the prison-industrial complex began to take on form at the planning tables of Corporate America and its political allies…

It was couched in terms of rural economic development, but the prison-building frenzy of the 1970s and 1980s carried a hidden cost - social disruption of…

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Commentary

We Must Never Forget Kwamé Turé

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

On the morning of November 15, 1998 it was learned that Kwamé Turé (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) had made his transition into eternity (died) in Conakry, Guinea. Along with Henry English of the Black United Fund of Illinois (the administrator of the Kwame Ture Medical Fund), Saraduzayi Sevanhu of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (A-APRP),…

On the morning of November 15, 1998 it was learned that Kwamé Turé (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) had made his transition into eternity (died) in Conakry, Guinea.…

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