Issue: 434
July 7, 2011
Commentary
What’s Happening to the “Least Among Us?”
Columnist
Some people in America have virtually no influence at any level of our society or government and the plight of farm workers makes the complaints of the middle class about economic and political privation look like a walk in the park. There was a time in this country when the attempts by the working class…
Some people in America have virtually no influence at any level of our society or government and the plight of farm workers makes the complaints of…
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Commentary
Immigration In My Back Yard -The Other Side of the Tracks
Columnist
What are you all going to do when you find that the thing you hate is in your back yard? What I’ve come to learn is that with conservative ideology, many of the social and economic positions taken, such as immigration, affect the very people who rail against them. When that happens, they squirm in…
What are you all going to do when you find that the thing you hate is in your back yard? What I’ve come to learn is…
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Commentary
32nd Annual National NBUF Convention
Columnist
The National Black United Front (NBUF) has reached an historic point in its history. That point in its history, is the convening of the 32nd Annual National NBUF Convention that will be held July 14-16, 2011 in Houston, Texas at the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center. This year’s convention theme is: “Survival, Unity, Justice and Power.” The…
The National Black United Front (NBUF) has reached an historic point in its history. That point in its history, is the convening of the 32nd Annual…
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Guest Commentary
Herman Cain . . . Negro, have you lost your cotton pickin’ mind?!
Columnist
“One of the biggest differences is the color of my … eyes.” Hermann Cain distinguishing himself from the GOP field. “Herman Cain appeals to people because he doesn’t talk about race,” said South Carolina Republican strategist Chip Felkel. Thank the stars I speak Red-Necklish . . . translation, “Herman Cain appeals to White people because…
“One of the biggest differences is the color of my ... eyes." Hermann Cain distinguishing himself from the GOP field. "Herman Cain appeals to people because…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “The labor movement means just this…” – Wendell Phillips
Guest Commentator
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Cover Story
What Will It Take to Bring Obama Home? – Obama Harkens Back To Slavery With “States’ Rights” For Same-Sex Marriage – Moving Left – Part 15
Editorial Board
“Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive…
"Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a…
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