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Feb 10, 2011

Guest Commentary

To Support Democracy in Egypt, Suspend U.S. Military Aid

By Hany Khalil Guest Commentator

As an Egyptian American, I welcome the Egyptian people’s call for President Mubarak to go. So should all of us, for democracy will be good for Egyptians and Americans both. For thirty years Mubarak’s authoritarian government has held down the Egyptian people with an iron fist. Under emergency laws imposed in 1981, Egypt’s hated security…

As an Egyptian American, I welcome the Egyptian people's call for President Mubarak to go. So should all of us, for democracy will be good for…

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Commentary

Storming the Bastille – in Egypt

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

-Ariel Dorfman from “The Last Will and Testament” I do not know what it is like to believe in “my” government without question. I would have to believe not so much that my government was innocent but rather that what stands outside of my government and me is danger, chaos. I would not be deceived,…

-Ariel Dorfman from “The Last Will and Testament” I do not know what it is like to believe in “my” government without question. I would have…

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Color of Law

America Is the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

February is Black History Month, and a perfect time to reflect on the nonviolence and antiwar stance of Dr. Martin Luther King. Recently, my colleague, Mark Thompson, reminded me of an important Dr. King quote when I appeared on his radio show to discuss the Tucson shooting. It was a speech the slain civil rights…

February is Black History Month, and a perfect time to reflect on the nonviolence and antiwar stance of Dr. Martin Luther King. Recently, my colleague, Mark…

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Commentary

War & Missiles: Obama’s Requiem for the Dead & Dying

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Notwithstanding his endless rhetoric, the policies and actions of Barack Obama, demonstrate the ultimate contradiction of all that justice-loving people have struggled so long and so hard for in this nation, and throughout the world. The increasingly obvious contradictions represented in and by this U.S. corporate plutocracy, must be recognized and understood for what they…

Notwithstanding his endless rhetoric, the policies and actions of Barack Obama, demonstrate the ultimate contradiction of all that justice-loving people have struggled so long and so…

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Commentary

Vodou’s Acceptance of Gays

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

In celebrating Black History Month is year I want our West African ancestral religious contributions to also be lifted up. One of them for me, as a lesbian, is the contribution of Vodun. Why? Because of its spiritual tenets of acceptance of all people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. As one of the…

In celebrating Black History Month is year I want our West African ancestral religious contributions to also be lifted up. One of them for me, as…

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The African World

Book Review – Fusing Global Justice and Pan Africanism

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid, edited by Leith Mullings, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 334 pps., paperback. City University of New York Graduate Center professor, Leith Mullings, has put together a unique work. Although published in 2009, I just recently read it and it was more than timely. With 2011…

New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid, edited by Leith Mullings, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 334 pps., paperback. City University of New…

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Commentary

Echoes from Tunisia and Egypt: Revolutions Without Self-proclaimed Revolutionaries

By Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD Editorial Board

‘It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb by suburb, village by village, waiting patiently to pass through the “people’s security” checkpoints, draped in the Egyptian flag of red, white and black, its governess eagle a bright…

‘It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb…

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