Mar 1, 2012
Art
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Commentary
Editorial Board
And we love him and many of us see in him a model for our lives, not because he was Black but because he was anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism – a man of and for the people, the working class, the poor. Malcolm was murdered, assassinated with the help of the Nation of Islam, by the forces…
And we love him and many of us see in him a model for our lives, not because he was Black but because he was anti-capitalism,…
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Commentary
Columnist
The New York�s Legislature�s proposal at the end of last year, to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour, has brought out the usual opposition, which dusted off old rhetoric that such a move would �hurt the very people it is designed to help.� The Business Council of New York State and…
The New York�s Legislature�s proposal at the end of last year, to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour, has brought out the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Yesterday, my late grandmother and mother had to live with it, today my wife and sisters – all Afro-American women – still must endure the disrespectful, scornfully abusive, and need I say, so very contemptible as to be offensive comments which endlessly seem to �percolate� out of many White people�s mouths. Over a century of…
Yesterday, my late grandmother and mother had to live with it, today my wife and sisters - all Afro-American women - still must endure the disrespectful,…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
What was inside a black, working class kid in the heat of a segregated society that made him or her think they could fly a plane? There were dozens of these young people whose dreams of flying took them to Tuskegee, AL where an experiment to prove that black people lacked the courage to fight…
What was inside a black, working class kid in the heat of a segregated society that made him or her think they could fly a plane?…
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Commentary
Columnist
The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the ongoing struggle for the liberation of African people in this country. We must continue to demand that the truth be taught, as we continue to struggle to build the Reparations Movement in America. This…
The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the ongoing struggle for the liberation…
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