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Issue: 462

Mar 8, 2012

Commentary

Does Black History Month Need a New Model?

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

I was going to let Black History Month pass without contributing an article this year because nothing particularly interesting sparked me to write. Then a couple things happened. First, the associate pastor of my predominantly white church read Toure�s book, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?. The book motivated her – a white woman – to invite…

I was going to let Black History Month pass without contributing an article this year because nothing particularly interesting sparked me to write. Then a couple…

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Commentary

Is Black America Reawakening?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

-Frantz Fanon The euphemistic mountain top of freedom is actually not a mountain top at all. It is a plateau. For each succeeding generation must struggle to scale the heights of indifference and apathy in order to bring to fruition one more forward step in the amazingly persistent evolution of humanity. Nevertheless, humankind is constantly…

-Frantz Fanon The euphemistic mountain top of freedom is actually not a mountain top at all. It is a plateau. For each succeeding generation must struggle…

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Commentary

Hanging with Netanyahu at AIPAC

By Carl Bloice Editorial Board

Here�s something you probably didn�t read in your local newspaper. It wasn�t in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Blogging from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) conference in Washington, Chris McGreal of the British Guardian wrote: �Ahead of the speeches there has been a foreign policy discussion panel. Among the speakers…

Here�s something you probably didn�t read in your local newspaper. It wasn�t in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Blogging from the American Israel…

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Guest Commentary

Before Freedom Came And After – The Museum of the Confederacy Part 4 of 4

By Edward H. Sebesta Guest Commentator

Towards the end of his article, Kimball quotes James Horton�s and Spencer Crew�s commentary on a survey of African-American interpretation in museums,[8] in which they state, �A temporary exhibit may not have a long-term effect on museum exhibition policy.� Kimball then concludes: The accompanying Before Freedom Came book does not avoid the horrors of slavery.…

Towards the end of his article, Kimball quotes James Horton�s and Spencer Crew�s commentary on a survey of African-American interpretation in museums,[8] in which they state,…

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Commentary

What Does Oppression Look Like?

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

If our two young men return in coffins, the steel-like �patriotism� of wartime counselors, generals, and presidents, will be represented by the metals decorating the uniforms concealing the horrific wounds they sustained and the local press will print the word �hero� alongside their names. But only family and the community of friends and neighbors speak…

If our two young men return in coffins, the steel-like �patriotism� of wartime counselors, generals, and presidents, will be represented by the metals decorating the uniforms…

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Commentary

Of Gutter Politics and Mainstream Commentary

By John Funiciello Columnist

Anyone who has listened to Rush Limbaugh for five minutes in the past 20 years or so knows who he is and what he is: a bloviating bully who is fond of making racist and sexist commentary and insisting, now and then, that he is just having fun and that he is mostly an entertainer.…

Anyone who has listened to Rush Limbaugh for five minutes in the past 20 years or so knows who he is and what he is: a…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Limbaugh Must Go Down

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Need I say more? Probably not, but I do need a few white folks to �interpret� exactly what these remarks are. Clean it up a little… tell me what the fat hooded-one really meant. Better yet, I�ll need Clarence Thomas, Michael Steel or Allen West – all who obviously speak fluent �Redneck� to decipher these…

Need I say more? Probably not, but I do need a few white folks to �interpret� exactly what these remarks are. Clean it up a little...…

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View from the Battlefield

Spotlight on Missouri’s Death Penalty System: Can it Stand the Scrutiny?

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

A couple of weeks ago, David Love penned an article �Reggie Clemons is Troy Davis.� The article highlighted the troubling doubts in the cases of Troy Davis and Reggie Clemons. Love had no idea that I�ve been working on the Clemons� case for twenty years (he does now since we talked about it!). The case…

A couple of weeks ago, David Love penned an article �Reggie Clemons is Troy Davis.� The article highlighted the troubling doubts in the cases of Troy…

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Commentary

Key Concepts for African People Revisited

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

At this current stage of history in the Black Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to seek clarity on certain ideas that are fundamental to the white supremacy foundation of America. First, there is the idea and concept of the �Maafa.� When we discuss genocide…

At this current stage of history in the Black Liberation Movement, it is important that key concepts be revisited and re-discussed in our continued efforts to…

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