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Nov 10, 2011

Commentary

Seeds of Oppression

By Perry Redd Columnist

You’re about to see a viscous game, not that we hadn’t already. I’m not talking about the NFL, nor am I talking about the stock market. I’m talking about human existence; the United States is playing hardball. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has hit a wall. It’s been in a stalemate for some time. It won’t…

You’re about to see a viscous game, not that we hadn’t already. I’m not talking about the NFL, nor am I talking about the stock market.…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

The Cream of the White Crop

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The liberal, progressive White folks who dot the political landscape of the Left are, in my – an nearly half-century old Black man’s honest, humble opinion…simply better people, far-better human beings, more advanced, civilized creatures – then the conservative (racist/sexist & elitist) White people who populate the political Right in American life. You may not…

The liberal, progressive White folks who dot the political landscape of the Left are, in my - an nearly half-century old Black man’s honest, humble opinion...simply…

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Commentary

Doing for Self and Education

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…

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Commentary

Ten Books You Should Read for Fall/Winter – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

This is my list of must-read books over the past 4 or 5 years, and I wouldn’t recommend them to you if I hadn’t read them myself. 10. A classic book on Adolph Hitler: Putsch! How Hitler Made Revolution. Richard Hanser (ISBN 77-130754). Can a dreamer and vocational failure become a petty-minded narcissist and then…

This is my list of must-read books over the past 4 or 5 years, and I wouldn’t recommend them to you if I hadn’t read them…

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