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Issue: 443

Sept 29, 2011

Sharp n’ Blunt

I am not my brother’s keeper

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Please keep in mind I’m not a religious fanatic, people who’ve two-way conversations with the baby Jesus or chit-chat with harp totin’ Angels named Jerome . . . these people frighten me. I abide by the simple Thomas Paine adage; The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is…

Please keep in mind I’m not a religious fanatic, people who’ve two-way conversations with the baby Jesus or chit-chat with harp totin’ Angels named Jerome .…

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Commentary

Not So Sleight of Hand

By Perry Redd Columnist

My concern for the people of Palestine goes back to my discipleship and pastoral training in the mid-90’s. I grew to question the contemporary mainstream American Christian teaching of the history of the region currently know as Israel. I was displeased with the imagery that showed white people as the inheritors of that land. I…

My concern for the people of Palestine goes back to my discipleship and pastoral training in the mid-90’s. I grew to question the contemporary mainstream American…

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Commentary

The Intellectual Crisis

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

One of our great esteemed ancestors, Harold Cruse wrote a book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership which was published in 1967, at the height of the Black Power Movement. This insightful book stirred up a spirited conversation in the African Liberation Movement. That conversation revolves…

One of our great esteemed ancestors, Harold Cruse wrote a book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership…

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Guest Commentary

Celebrating Leaders Of The Confederacy As Heroes – The Museum of the Confederacy Part 2

By Edward H. Sebesta Guest Commentator

[This is Part 2 of a 4-Part series] The Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) celebrates Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis as heroes and has sought to “honor” them by offering a Lost Cause view of the Civil War and promoting Confederate nationalism. The very reason for the existence of the Confederacy was white supremacy…

[This is Part 2 of a 4-Part series] The Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) celebrates Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis as heroes and has sought…

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Commentary

Guest: The Inspiring Life of Eddy Zheng – A Bay Area Community Leader Facing Deportation – A Video Interview with Ben Wang

By Angola 3 News Guest Commentator

This video is an Angola 3 News interview with filmmaker Ben Wang, focused largely on the book by and about Asian American prisoners that he co-edited with Chinese American community leader Eddy Zheng, published in 2007 and the issues presented in the book. Below is the video trailer from the latest film by Ben Wang…

This video is an Angola 3 News interview with filmmaker Ben Wang, focused largely on the book by and about Asian American prisoners that he co-edited…

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Guest Commentary

The Footprints and Shadow of LBJ

By Daniel N. White Guest Commentator

Living in Austin, Texas, you still, this many years on, are living in the shadow of LBJ. His footprints are all over this place, if you know what to look for. I doubt that’s the case for most other presidential stomping grounds, certainly isn’t from what I’ve seen of other presidents’ home towns. Austin, current…

Living in Austin, Texas, you still, this many years on, are living in the shadow of LBJ. His footprints are all over this place, if you…

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