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May 15, 2003

Commentary

Malcolm X

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Malcolm X Born: Malcolm Little, May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska Died: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem, New York City God’s Judgment of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost) New York City, December 4, 1963 Edited by Benjamin Karim When this speech was delivered, Malcolm X was at the height…

Malcolm X Born: Malcolm Little, May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska Died: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem, New York City God’s Judgment of…

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Commentary

Sex less a factor in Africal AIDS – The Issues

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government are convinced that the U.S. has decided to do a “regime change” in Haiti before the world’s first Black Republic celebrates its 200th anniversary, in 2004. Frustrated that a three-year, American-led aid embargo against Haiti has failed to topple the popularly elected Aristide, the Bush men are escalating their proxy…

Supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government are convinced that the U.S. has decided to do a "regime change" in Haiti before the world's first Black Republic celebrates…

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Commentary

The Jayson Blair/New York Times Affair

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for abrogating “the trust between the newspaper and its readers,” as chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. put it. But the Jayson Blair affair is the least of the newspaper’s transgressions against truth. Racism, not affirmative action, is what ails the Times. By rights, the Times’ embarrassment…

The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for abrogating "the trust between the newspaper and its readers," as chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. put…

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Commentary

Class, Race, and Legalized Gambling

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The first chapter of leading right-wing moral-crusader, Republican political strategist, and educational magnate William J. Bennett’s The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Moral Stories (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993) is titled “Self-Discipline.” “There is much unhappiness and personal distress in the world,” Bennett writes, “because of failures to control and temper appetites, passion and…

The first chapter of leading right-wing moral-crusader, Republican political strategist, and educational magnate William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Moral Stories (NY:…

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