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Oct 6, 2011

Cover Story

The World can be Fed with Seeds and Hard Work, But

By John Funiciello Columnist

The United Nations last month said that, if women farmers were given the right stuff, there would be from 100 million to 150 million fewer hungry people throughout the world. Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN’s World Food Programme, headquartered in Rome, urged that women (who raise most of the food for human consumption…

The United Nations last month said that, if women farmers were given the right stuff, there would be from 100 million to 150 million fewer hungry…

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Commentary

The Euro Zone Crisis – Worse than it Appears – Or So We’re Being Told?

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

When President Obama dispatched Treasury Secretary Geithner to Wroclaw, Poland last month to sit in at the meeting of the 17-nation Eurozone finance ministers, it was because, as he put it later, the way the Europeans were handling the continent’s debt crisis is “scaring the world.” Geithner dutifully told the ministers; the message and the…

When President Obama dispatched Treasury Secretary Geithner to Wroclaw, Poland last month to sit in at the meeting of the 17-nation Eurozone finance ministers, it was…

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Commentary

The Past is Never Dead with the N-Word

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

In a supposedly post- racial society, one would think that the n-word was buried and long gone with its troubled eras of race relations in this country. But as American novelist, William Faulkner, wrote in his 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” As we all try…

In a supposedly post- racial society, one would think that the n-word was buried and long gone with its troubled eras of race relations in this…

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Commentary

Storm the Bastille!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

U.S. citizens renamed Wall Street Plaza, Liberty Plaza. They came; it was spontaneous at first. Then a chorus of Yes! We’ve have seen enough. Whose government is this, anyway! The heavy-hand presence of the NYC law enforcement is a challenge: maze, isolation of a citizen protester from others, arrests. But the numbers of citizens continues…

U.S. citizens renamed Wall Street Plaza, Liberty Plaza. They came; it was spontaneous at first. Then a chorus of Yes! We’ve have seen enough. Whose government…

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Commentary

Black America: It’s Time to Collectively Rejoin the Developing Revolution

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The struggles for economic, political, and social justice of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples has been, and remains, a long, arduous, and protracted one. The legacy of Black America in this regard has been a particularly sterling one. The wealthy elite of this nation have always sought to mask, co-opt, and distort…

The struggles for economic, political, and social justice of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples has been, and remains, a long, arduous, and protracted…

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Color of Law

Book Review: The Best of “The Way I See It” and Other Political Writings (1989-2010), by Jamala Rogers – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Jamala Rogers, the veteran activist, organizer, writer and BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, has written a new book about the African-American experience. And if you care about black folks, human rights and social justice, perhaps you should take a look. The book, The Best of “The Way I See It” and Other Political Writings (1989-2010), is…

Jamala Rogers, the veteran activist, organizer, writer and BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, has written a new book about the African-American experience. And if you care about…

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The African World

Bill’s Busy Writing a Book About Labor Unions

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

To readers of my column ‘African World’: I wanted to send this note of apology for not having written anything for BC in quite some time. I have been asked to write a book by Beacon Press and i have a very tight deadline. The combination of my day job plus writing this manuscript have…

To readers of my column 'African World': I wanted to send this note of apology for not having written anything for BC in quite some time.…

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