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Issue: 434

July 7, 2011

The African World

Manning Marable and the Malcolm X biography controversy – A response to critics

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

On the day of Manning Marable’s death, April 1, 2011, I received an additional piece of disturbing information. A friend of mine informed me of a discussion he had just had with a Black activist-writer who, in hearing about Marable’s passing, went into what could only be described as a rant against Marable. Marable’s body…

On the day of Manning Marable’s death, April 1, 2011, I received an additional piece of disturbing information. A friend of mine informed me of a…

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Color of Law

At What Point Does the GOP Become a Hate Group? – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Here is an issue that deserves some attention. Commentators have had some harsh things to say about the Republican Party of late, what it has become, and the direction in which it is heading. One observer, a clinical psychologist, characterized the GOP as the mainstreaming of political paranoia, with politicians who invent their own reality.…

Here is an issue that deserves some attention. Commentators have had some harsh things to say about the Republican Party of late, what it has become,…

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Commentary

Some Stronger Words from the White House? Hold the Euphoria

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Her sister-in-law called her the other day, she said. “Did you hear Obama yesterday?” was the first thing out of her mouth, she said. We were at the end of the table at a senior activist luncheon last week. “Yeah, he sounded like he should have been sounding all along,” she said she told her…

Her sister-in-law called her the other day, she said. “Did you hear Obama yesterday?” was the first thing out of her mouth, she said. We were…

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Commentary

Bangladesh: A Project for “Liberated” Women in the U.S

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

“Gertrude N. Cunningham was that teacher everyone says they remember, one teacher who made a big difference in their life,” begins the Managing Editor at the Black Commentator, Nancy Littlefield, but she was more: Mrs. Cunningham “guided me from early childhood to student-hood, from looking inward, to seeing myself as part of the larger world,…

“Gertrude N. Cunningham was that teacher everyone says they remember, one teacher who made a big difference in their life,” begins the Managing Editor at the…

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Commentary

Perpetual War, Corporate Greed, & Austerity for the Masses

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

As the corporate/military U.S. Empire, headed by the nominally black Barack Obama, with the complicity of his Democrat[ic] and Republican party political pimps, rumbles along, crushing the economic needs, human rights, and aspirations of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world, conditions for just plain ordinary people…

As the corporate/military U.S. Empire, headed by the nominally black Barack Obama, with the complicity of his Democrat[ic] and Republican party political pimps, rumbles along, crushing…

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Commentary

Reflections from Behind the Wall – Anatomy of a Frame Up – Chapter 3 – The Big Lie – A Luta Continua

By Chuck Turner Editorial Board

Note: BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three year term for a bribery conviction. A) The court of public opinion. At 7:30 on the morning of my arrest, TV and radio stations began sending the message to…

Note: BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Chuck Turner is writing this column from the U.S. Federal Prison in Hazelton, West Virginia where he is serving a three…

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