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Issue: 456

Jan 26, 2012

Commentary

Sending the Military to Put Down Workers: Is This America, or What?

By John Funiciello Columnist

The U.S. government is prepared to send a fully armed Coast Guard ship to escort an empty grain ship owned by a transnational corporation up the Columbia River to the port in Longview, Wash., where it will be loaded with grain by non-union labor in the next several days or weeks. The ship, owned by…

The U.S. government is prepared to send a fully armed Coast Guard ship to escort an empty grain ship owned by a transnational corporation up the…

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Commentary

Dr. Woodson and African American History Month

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning of African Centered thought, as defined by Dr. Wade Nobles, �is nothing more than a term categorizing a quality of thought and practice which is rooted in the cultural…

The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning…

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The African World

Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Editorial Board

In 2002, seemingly out of nowhere, then US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the USA henceforth considered the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and their armed wing, the New People�s Army (NPA), to be terrorist organizations. Additionally, they labeled a long-time Philippine revolutionary leader and theorist – Jose Maria Sison – to…

In 2002, seemingly out of nowhere, then US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the USA henceforth considered the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)…

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Commentary

State Of The Union: The Only Time Congress Deals In Virtual Reality

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Watching the President of the United States give a State of the Union address is often like watching a peacock strut. Its head projecting forward with each step, and its splayed feathers saying �Look at me. I�m tall. I�m beautiful. I have it all. I did it all.� The President usually lists an embellished log…

Watching the President of the United States give a State of the Union address is often like watching a peacock strut. Its head projecting forward with…

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Color of Law

I’m Really Trying to Understand Black Conservatives – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Only a few weeks into the new year, and it seems that black conservatives made their way out of the gate on the wrong foot. That�s not to say that they ever were on point, in my estimation. But these days, they seem particularly off their game, out of place, out of step and isolated.…

Only a few weeks into the new year, and it seems that black conservatives made their way out of the gate on the wrong foot. That�s…

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Commentary

Hazing or Hate Crime?

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Robert Champion, Jr.�s murder may never be solved. And those who struck the fatal blows will never disclose whether they used the guise of hazing as an accidental homicide to cover up an intended hate crime. Champion was an usual student to be at one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). He was…

Robert Champion, Jr.�s murder may never be solved. And those who struck the fatal blows will never disclose whether they used the guise of hazing as…

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