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Jan 20, 2011

Commentary

Too Many Americans Chasing Too Few Jobs

By John Funiciello Columnist

Young African-American men find it very difficult to enter working life after incarceration. High unemployment makes it that much worse. How about an unemployment rate of more than 29 percent? It doesn’t seem possible, even in this era of economic turmoil. It doesn’t seem possible when government officials tell us that the unemployment rate is…

Young African-American men find it very difficult to enter working life after incarceration. High unemployment makes it that much worse. How about an unemployment rate of…

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Commentary

LAPD’s Shooting of A Naked Black Man – Can’t Wait To Hear What He Had In His Hand This Time – Between the Lines

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

We can always count on LAPD to find new ways to abuse black people. If there’s some kind of abusive first with lethal force and LAPD, trust me, a black person’s involved. While this one is probably not a first for the department (shooting a naked man), it’s a first for the “new” “post reform”…

We can always count on LAPD to find new ways to abuse black people. If there's some kind of abusive first with lethal force and LAPD,…

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Commentary

Garvey and Freeing the African Mind

By Dr. Conrad Worrill, PhD Columnist

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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Guest Commentary

PREJUDICE: ME?

By Joe Navarro Guest Commentator

I know that I am prejudiced Against some people. Yes me. They revile me and make me sick, And why? You will see. They are people who disgust me; I have no use for them. This disdain I feel From where does it stem? It’s a feeling from within That has fermented over the years.…

I know that I am prejudiced Against some people. Yes me. They revile me and make me sick, And why? You will see. They are people…

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Commentary

The Last Word on Tucson

By Perry Redd Columnist

prisons cannot serve as holding cells for the mentally unstable; most mentally challenged people aren’t charged with a crime until they commit one Of all of the dialogue surrounding the Arizona attack, very little was focused on remedying the cause. The politi-sphere won’t admit that it allowed hateful and harmful language to contaminate the hate…

prisons cannot serve as holding cells for the mentally unstable; most mentally challenged people aren’t charged with a crime until they commit one Of all of…

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