Issue: 473
May 24, 2012
Cover Story
Education and Doing for Self
Columnist
Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…
Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people…
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Commentary
The 21st Century Political Plantations/Reservations Of The United States Of Insanity
Editorial Board
Institutional ‘education’ in this nation is overwhelmingly nothing more than a veneer of mythology and half-truths constantly reinforced by the lies, distortions, and omissions by those who own and control the corporate-stream ‘news’ media. ‘Democracy’ in this nation, in real terms, means dictatorship by the tiny corporate elite; embodied in the slimy machinations of both…
Institutional 'education' in this nation is overwhelmingly nothing more than a veneer of mythology and half-truths constantly reinforced by the lies, distortions, and omissions by those…
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Commentary
Americans Elect – the Centrists’ Hindenburg Goes Down
Editorial Board
In the beginning, Americans Elect said its purpose was to “Break the gridlock and change politics as usual – No special interest. No agenda. Country before party.” And now, two years and many post mortems later, there is plenty on why, after spending $35 million and getting all the fawning publicity money could buy, they…
In the beginning, Americans Elect said its purpose was to "Break the gridlock and change politics as usual - No special interest. No agenda. Country before…
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Guest Commentary
On Dr. Manning Marable and Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention
Guest Commentator
Since the publishing of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Dr. Manning Marable there has been spirited discussion on the matter and condemnation from some. Unfortunately, Dr. Marable is not here to answer his critics personally which he was more than capable of doing. In 2006 Dr. Marable came to Washington, DC at our…
Since the publishing of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Dr. Manning Marable there has been spirited discussion on the matter and condemnation from some.…
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Guest Commentary
The New Millennium Minstrel Show
Guest Commentator
In Spike Lee�s film Bamboozled (2000), we get a powerful close-up of a visibly distressed black performer applying blackface. The tears are unscripted. Lee said that the actors dreaded blacking up: they felt it was dehumanizing; it tore out their souls. Recently, as part of a performance at Danspace Project at St Mark�s Church, a…
In Spike Lee�s film Bamboozled (2000), we get a powerful close-up of a visibly distressed black performer applying blackface. The tears are unscripted. Lee said that…
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Commentary
Can’t Ice Out Racism
Columnist
So, you want to ignore me? My feelings aren�t hurt. You want to ignore my claims? Well, that�s something altogether different. I told you and effectively demonstrated, through anecdotal and empirical evidence, that racism in America is not only alive and will but perpetually growing in our culture�s periphery and by means of institutionalized socialization.…
So, you want to ignore me? My feelings aren�t hurt. You want to ignore my claims? Well, that�s something altogether different. I told you and effectively…
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