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Feb 17, 2011

Commentary

Hypocrisy Is Not Democracy: Time for Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Most humans desire only to live their lives with dignity, fulfillment, and human worth, while a parasitic few seek to glorify and unceasingly enrich themselves awash in the blood and manipulated fears of the rest of humanity. In recent weeks, the world has witnessed heroic uprisings by millions of people in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere…

Most humans desire only to live their lives with dignity, fulfillment, and human worth, while a parasitic few seek to glorify and unceasingly enrich themselves awash…

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Color of Law

Cops Are Missing the Bad Guys While Profiling the Black Guys – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The history of African-Americans is one of great accomplishments amidst the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. That legacy follows black people, and particularly black men, to this day. And it is enough to make you red hot burning mad. Although some are ready to usher in a new post-racial era of colorblindness, it is…

The history of African-Americans is one of great accomplishments amidst the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. That legacy follows black people, and particularly black men,…

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Commentary

Why the Pretense by Corporate America of Being “American?”

By John Funiciello Columnist

Now that it is clear to millions of Americans that their jobs and in fact their country’s industrial base has been shipped out, never to return, they should begin to question the role of Corporate America in the plunge in their standard of living. Some 30 years ago, at the outset of the reign of…

Now that it is clear to millions of Americans that their jobs and in fact their country’s industrial base has been shipped out, never to return,…

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Commentary

Egypt is in Africa

By Dr. Conrad Worrill, PhD Columnist

The recent issues surrounding Egypt that have dominated the news, and the description of Egypt as a part of the Middle East, is the continuing assault against the true place of Egypt in geography and history as it relates to African people. We must always remember that Egypt is in African and not the Middle…

The recent issues surrounding Egypt that have dominated the news, and the description of Egypt as a part of the Middle East, is the continuing assault…

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Commentary

Do You Feel American?

By Perry Redd Columnist

I have to ask myself, like any other American, do I feel American? One thing I know is that if I voice that I don’t, I may get attacked by the Right as not being so. So I better be careful of what I say…naw, I don’t think so! I don’t feel American; and there’s…

I have to ask myself, like any other American, do I feel American? One thing I know is that if I voice that I don’t, I…

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Guest Commentary

Book Review – Barack Obama and Twenty-first Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA

By Eusi Kwayana Guest Commentator

Horace Campbell, a professor of Political Science at Syracuse University who gave us Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney and Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation, has been cutting some more edges in the thick maze of uncertainty that now surrounds the earth’s people in the political sphere…

Horace Campbell, a professor of Political Science at Syracuse University who gave us Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney and Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The…

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Guest Commentary

Black America’s Unrequited Love

By Dr. Algernon Austin, PhD Guest Commentator

The conventional wisdom is that because of a rise in interracial relationships, all Americans will be brown in the future. Henry Louis Gates Jr., for example, stated, “I’m looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.” Current data, however, suggests that the most we might see in the future is the beige-ing–not…

The conventional wisdom is that because of a rise in interracial relationships, all Americans will be brown in the future. Henry Louis Gates Jr., for example,…

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