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Jan 6, 2011

Commentary

The Party of “NO” Is About To Get Their Chance – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

The Republican Party is about to return from a two year banishment, from political Siberia, back into the political mainstream as it seats its House majority for the 112th Congress. While “change” of the past two years has occurred (no matter what the rhetoricians says), some of the most progressive change in recent congressional history…

The Republican Party is about to return from a two year banishment, from political Siberia, back into the political mainstream as it seats its House majority…

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Commentary

Doing for Self and Education

By Dr. Conrad 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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Guest Commentary

Remembering Bob Feller – he laid out the welcome mat for Black players in the major leagues

By Jean Damu Guest Commentator

Baseball great Bob “Fireball” Feller, a man whose role in helping to integrate baseball’s major leagues has largely been overlooked, died December 15th, 2010 from leukemia complications. Feller, unarguably one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, joined the Cleveland Indians, the only team he ever played for, in 1936 as a 17 year old high school junior.…

Baseball great Bob “Fireball” Feller, a man whose role in helping to integrate baseball's major leagues has largely been overlooked, died December 15th, 2010 from leukemia…

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Guest Commentary

Education: Community Or Chaos

By Elinor Bowles Guest Commentator

The failure of public education in the United States to effectively address the needs of students, or the nation, has been spotlighted by the movie, “Waiting for Superman.” Whatever one thinks of its point of view, the movie has made the failure of public education part of the national conversation–a much needed development. Despite the…

The failure of public education in the United States to effectively address the needs of students, or the nation, has been spotlighted by the movie, "Waiting…

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