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Issue: 455

Jan 19, 2012

Commentary

The Foreclosure Crisis: Urgent as Ever and Could Get Worse

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Noting that a Federal judge in California was slated to soon okay the �largest residential fair-lending settlement in history� ever reached by the Department of Justice in a bias case,� Attorney Anita Hill commented in Time magazine last week that in putting together the deal the U.S. Attorney�s office is to be lauded. She added…

Noting that a Federal judge in California was slated to soon okay the �largest residential fair-lending settlement in history� ever reached by the Department of Justice…

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Commentary

The Peoples’ Revolution or the Capitalists’ Wars!

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The supremacy of the confession has its origins in Europe when charges and evidence were withheld from the �criminal� and the public. The rights of authority trumped the rights of citizens. �Knowledge was the absolute privilege of the prosecution,� philosopher Michel Foucault explains, and �truth was the right and the exclusive power of the sovereign…

The supremacy of the confession has its origins in Europe when charges and evidence were withheld from the �criminal� and the public. The rights of authority…

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Commentary

Air Traffic Controllers Strike: a Turning Point for U.S. Unions

By John Funiciello Columnist

It has been three decades since Ronald Reagan broke the 11,500-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), and the relationship between capital and labor in America, always a nervous circling of adversaries at best, has never been the same. In firing the controllers, jailing its leaders, and blacklisting every member from ever working for the…

It has been three decades since Ronald Reagan broke the 11,500-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), and the relationship between capital and labor in America,…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Black Bird-Men

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Black Bird-men… That was the term-of-respect the flying Nazi�s used to describe the Tuskegee Airman�s skills and dogged tenacity. Those who respected them, wished to imitate and emulate them called them, Colored Flyers while far too many of their military peers, US politicians and American Citizens of that era referred to them as merely…Flyin� Niggers.…

Black Bird-men... That was the term-of-respect the flying Nazi�s used to describe the Tuskegee Airman�s skills and dogged tenacity. Those who respected them, wished to imitate…

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Commentary

Racial Solidarity and Economic Independence

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the �African mind� through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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