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Art: Lantern of Liberty – Harriet Tubman Wall Mural Photograph
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Issue: 459
Feb 16, 2012
The African World
An Apology Ceremony That We Need to Publicize
Editorial Board
On February 26th, a ceremony is to take place in California apologizing to the approximately 400,000 people of Mexican ancestry who were deported from the USA in a spate of ethnic cleansing that gripped the USA during the Depression. What is at stake in this ceremony is not only the apology but what it says…
On February 26th, a ceremony is to take place in California apologizing to the approximately 400,000 people of Mexican ancestry who were deported from the USA…
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From Negro History Week to Pan-African Historical Context – Black History Month
Guest Commentator
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” – Marcus Garvey The need to once and for all embrace a reasonable and comprehensive interpretation of African history that inspires and uplifts Black people is evident when examining how Black History Month is celebrated in US…
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” - Marcus Garvey The need to once and…
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Commentary
Perhaps the Most Dangerous Black Gay Man
Editorial Board
To some in the LGBTQ community, Cleo Manago is hugely despised. Descriptors like �homo demagogue,� contrarian, separatist, and anti-white are just a few that can be expressed in polite company. But to a nation-wide community of same-gender loving (SGL), bisexual, transgender and progressive heterosexual African American men, Manago is the MAN!, seen as a visionary,…
To some in the LGBTQ community, Cleo Manago is hugely despised. Descriptors like �homo demagogue,� contrarian, separatist, and anti-white are just a few that can be…
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Commentary
On Serving the People Versus Serving the System
Editorial Board
Even as the masses of Black and poor people of all colors slip deeper into poverty and economic emaciation, and even as the Democratic and Republican politicians, in collusion with the corporate-stream media, persist in their efforts to distort and distract everyday people away from the systemic root causes of their (our) terrible pain, these…
Even as the masses of Black and poor people of all colors slip deeper into poverty and economic emaciation, and even as the Democratic and Republican…
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Commentary
Up Next in Washington: At AIPAC Beating the Drums of War
Editorial Board
An alarming headline appeared in the English language Jerusalem Post February 8: �Washington Watch: banging the war drums.� The article below it, written by Douglas Bloomfield, president of Bloomfield Associates Inc., a Washington lobbying and consulting firm, noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, �who has a penchant for dabbling in American politics,� will be…
An alarming headline appeared in the English language Jerusalem Post February 8: �Washington Watch: banging the war drums.� The article below it, written by Douglas Bloomfield,…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history…” – Carter Woodson
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