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July 21, 2011

Guest Commentary

What Will It Take to Bring Obama Home? – The Visual Obama and the Actual Obama Disconnect – Moving Left – Part 17

By Barbara Maddox Guest Commentator

“Bring Obama ‘Home’ ”? Last I heard, President Obama and his family were quite comfortably ensconced in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “Bring Obama ‘Home’” certainly cannot refer to some experience that it is imagined President Obama shares with the majority of black Americans. Few black Americans grow up in Indonesia; fewer still have…

“Bring Obama ‘Home’ ”? Last I heard, President Obama and his family were quite comfortably ensconced in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “Bring Obama ‘Home’”…

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The African World

“Well…it is an occupation!”

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

I recently returned from North Africa and Palestine. I found myself giving a talk to a group in the USA where I mentioned my trip as a way of discussing the manner in which events can unfold very rapidly. I mentioned that I had been to North Africa and the occupied Palestinian territories. Barely had…

I recently returned from North Africa and Palestine. I found myself giving a talk to a group in the USA where I mentioned my trip as…

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Commentary

Prison-Based Gerrymandering

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

When, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, spoke at a gathering in my community, I asked her to give the audience her condensed version of the prison-based gerrymandering phenomenon. Characterizing it as a modern-day 3/5ths Compromise, Alexander explained that in most states, census residence rules require…

When, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, spoke at a gathering in my community, I asked her…

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Color of Law

Murdoch’s Unraveling Empire and the Need for Civic Engagement – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

The only thing more remarkable than the news of the Rupert Murdoch hacking-bribery scandal itself is the rate of its unraveling – and Murdoch’s unraveling. For this international kingmaker and media mogul – who built an empire on yellow journalism and destroying the lives of others – it seems rather fitting that his fall from…

The only thing more remarkable than the news of the Rupert Murdoch hacking-bribery scandal itself is the rate of its unraveling - and Murdoch’s unraveling. For…

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Commentary

The First Lady and the Monsanto-Washington Unification Process Vs. Our Human Rights

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Monsanto has great respect for all of us, little people, and for Mother Earth, the source of all its (Monsanto’s) material wealth. But Monsanto would like to remind the world that however much those activists transgressors in Brazil condemn its connection to the use of dioxin in a current project to defoliate the rain forest…

Monsanto has great respect for all of us, little people, and for Mother Earth, the source of all its (Monsanto’s) material wealth. But Monsanto would like…

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Commentary

What “Shared Sacrifice” Means in Fact

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

President Obama spelled it out for us Saturday. During his weekly radio address, he said the country needs “a balanced strategy” with shared sacrifice, and for “everyone to be willing to make decisions that are not popular.” The President’s remarks underscored the contention of some observers, including leading economists that the White House has bought…

President Obama spelled it out for us Saturday. During his weekly radio address, he said the country needs “a balanced strategy” with shared sacrifice, and for…

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Commentary

Our Bi-phobia placed on Sheryl Swoopes

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

To some in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities (LGBTQ), three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time MVP of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), Sheryl Swoopes, is a “lie-sexual,” another sister-girl on the “down low” with the incredulous news that she’s now engaged to marry a man. To incurable homophobes, especially of the…

To some in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities (LGBTQ), three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time MVP of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA),…

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Commentary

Is It Time to Impeach Barack Obama?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“…That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles…

"...That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government…

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Commentary

Marx In Soho: A Play On History

By Howard Zinn - Video of Performance by Brian Jones

Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Doors: 6 PM. Start: 7 PM. Tickets: $15/$10.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Doors: 6 PM. Start: 7 PM. Tickets: $15/$10.

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