Issue: 460
Feb 23, 2012
The African World
The Other Meaning of February 21st For Me
Editorial Board
As a political activist, February 21st always brought to mind the assassination of Malcolm X and his historical legacy.� On February 21, 1989 all that changed for me when that date assumed a double meaning with the birth of my second child. My wife was told that she would need to have a caesarian delivery…
As a political activist, February 21st always brought to mind the assassination of Malcolm X and his historical legacy.� On February 21, 1989 all that changed…
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Commentary
BC Remembers Atlanta’s White Race Riots of 1906 – Black History Month
Guest Commentator
The New Georgia Encyclopedia summarizes additional causes of the riots as follows: By the 1880s Atlanta had become the hub of the regional economy, and the city’s overall population soared from 89,000 in 1900 to 150,000 in 1910; the black population was approximately 9,000 in 1880 and 35,000 by 1900. Such growth put pressure on…
The New Georgia Encyclopedia summarizes additional causes of the riots as follows: By the 1880s Atlanta had become the hub of the regional economy, and the…
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Color of Law
The White Working Class was Bamboozled – The
Executive Editor
Originally, this was to be a commentary on the plight of the white middle class, but that demographic no longer exists in America.� So, let�s talk about the swindling of the white working class. And although it has all come to a head in the past few years, it is a story that is years…
Originally, this was to be a commentary on the plight of the white middle class, but that demographic no longer exists in America.� So, let�s talk…
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Guest Commentary
BlackCommenator.com: The Sin of ‘Entitlement’
Columnist
I was watching one of those modern-Westerns, a crime show. Old cowboys Westerns, we know, are mystifications of the US�s most recent manifest-destiny past. �BlackCommentator.com readers know this unreality because of our specific knowledge of the historical reality [that 40% of cowboys were black] is one of the missing or mischaracterized facts in the mystification.…
I was watching one of those modern-Westerns, a crime show. Old cowboys Westerns, we know, are mystifications of the US�s most recent manifest-destiny past. �BlackCommentator.com readers…
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Commentary
Black History, the Black Panther Party, & The Ongoing People’s Struggle Today – Keeping it Real – Black History Month
Editorial Board
To the everyday peoples of the entire world, let us learn from and change the course of history. This is our sacred duty, as human beings, to ourselves and to Mother Earth herself! It will not be easy and no sane person ever said it would be. But it can and must be done as…
To the everyday peoples of the entire world, let us learn from and change the course of history. This is our sacred duty, as human beings,…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
Guest Commentator
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