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Nov 10, 2011

Commentary

It’s Still “Magic” 20 Years Later

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Twenty years ago this week, the world heard an announcement that we all thought was the end of the world for a young man who had changed the world through his gift of playing basketball. Earvin “Magic” Johnson had entertained us for the previous twelve years by putting a fledgling league on his shoulders, and…

Twenty years ago this week, the world heard an announcement that we all thought was the end of the world for a young man who had…

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Art: Michael

Art

Art: Michael

By Kadir Nelson

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Color of Law

The Death Penalty and #Occupy Wall Street – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Recently I attended the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty in Austin, Texas. Participants included death penalty abolitionists, and members of Witness to Innocence – over two dozen freed death row prisoners who spent years in prison, and once faced certain execution for crimes they did not commit. The day’s events included a…

Recently I attended the 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty in Austin, Texas. Participants included death penalty abolitionists, and members of Witness to Innocence…

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Commentary

Support the Occupation Movement Even As We Clarify & Address Its Inevitable Contradictions

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.” –Paul Robeson The growing ‘OCCUPATION’ movement sweeping this nation, and countries throughout the world, is a legitimate and much-needed struggle not only physically, but also in a consciousness-raising mental sense on many levels. This protracted struggle…

"Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near." --Paul Robeson The growing 'OCCUPATION' movement sweeping…

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Commentary

“Bipartisan” Plotters Still at Work – Target Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

The story was leaked and reported over and over by the major news outlets: “a majority of Democrats” on the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “super committee”) were proposing a kind of grand bargain that would undermine Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. There are 12 members of the committee, six of them…

The story was leaked and reported over and over by the major news outlets: “a majority of Democrats” on the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit…

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Commentary

Black Homophobic Horror Flicks

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Gays on television today is nothing new. And we can thank Ellen DeGeneres’s watershed moment in April 1997, when she came out on her sitcom “Ellen.” Today’s openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) television personalities are Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Lynch, Rachel Maddow, and Rosie O’Donnell, to name a few. These personalities have…

Gays on television today is nothing new. And we can thank Ellen DeGeneres’s watershed moment in April 1997, when she came out on her sitcom “Ellen.”…

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Commentary

Seeds of Oppression – Rare Confluence: Trade Unionists And Environmentalists Oppose Transcontinental Oil Pipeline

By John Funiciello Columnist

For as long as most people can remember, environmentalists and trade unionists have been on opposite sides of most issues. Since the advent of the great modern environmental awakening of 40 years ago, when many of the modern agencies of government were created to deal with the degradation of the environment, there have been clashes…

For as long as most people can remember, environmentalists and trade unionists have been on opposite sides of most issues. Since the advent of the great…

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