Issue: 477
June 21, 2012
Commentary
For What Will Rodney King Really Be Remembered?
Columnist
The passing of Rodney King represents the end of an American tragedy. More tragic than King’s life ending at the early age, 47, is that he may be remembered for something much less significant than that for which he should be remember. See, Rodney wasn’t the tragedy. The torturous beating of Rodney King in March…
The passing of Rodney King represents the end of an American tragedy. More tragic than King’s life ending at the early age, 47, is that he…
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Guest Commentator
There are images that remain indelibly imprinted on ones psyche with such transformative emotional and unforgettable consequences that, I am convinced, one carries them to our very graves. For me, one such image is that of Emmett Till whose decomposed and emaciated body was laid in state in an open coffin, so many years ago,…
There are images that remain indelibly imprinted on ones psyche with such transformative emotional and unforgettable consequences that, I am convinced, one carries them to our…
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Commentary
Southern Baptist Convention Elects its First African American President – Will He Push an Anti-Gay Agenda?
Editorial Board
African American voters are President Obama’s largest and most steadfast supporters. They are also one of the largest and most steadfast opponents of marriage equality. So, when President Obama finally made public his support of same- sex marriage, one group wondering how they might parlay their support against him with African American voters are white…
African American voters are President Obama’s largest and most steadfast supporters. They are also one of the largest and most steadfast opponents of marriage equality. So,…
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Commentary
There Is No In-Between: Stand with the People or with the Oppressors
Editorial Board
-Rosa Luxemburg The women and men of this nation and throughout Mother Earth are engaged, like it or not, in a life and death struggle against a relatively tiny but powerful elite whose objective is to keep us perpetually in economic and political servitude. In this struggle, there can be “no impartial observers” for the…
-Rosa Luxemburg The women and men of this nation and throughout Mother Earth are engaged, like it or not, in a life and death struggle against…
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Revolutionary Patience
Columnist
One day, my five year old grandson asked me what super power I wanted to have. His world was intensely populated with superheroes from Ninja Turtles through Hancock, one of the many black superheroes, this one played by Will Smith in the movie with the same name. Emilio, my grandson, was trying to figure out…
One day, my five year old grandson asked me what super power I wanted to have. His world was intensely populated with superheroes from Ninja Turtles…
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Commentary
Insane Justice
Columnist
I’m exhausted. Not because of the grays showing up weekly in my hair. No…I’m exhausted from the constant reports of injustice in our country’s courtrooms. I’m nauseated every time I hear political season fundraising and the effects of the Citizens United ruling. Shifting elections through dollars is unethical, but it is accepted. But what exasperates…
I’m exhausted. Not because of the grays showing up weekly in my hair. No…I’m exhausted from the constant reports of injustice in our country’s courtrooms. I’m…
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