Art
Art: Voting Rights History – Two Centuries of Struggle, Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website
Guest Commentator
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Issue: 489
Oct 11, 2012
Commentary
Post-Debate Analysis: Trying to Make Sense Out of Nonsense
Columnist
Our responsibility is to give clarity to what’s going on and get out the vote. Since the first Presidential Debate took place last week, some people think the world has changed. The world has changed…but only their minds. One debate does not a campaign make, however, in a simpleton’s – simple analysis arrives at simple…
Our responsibility is to give clarity to what’s going on and get out the vote. Since the first Presidential Debate took place last week, some people…
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Color of Law
Terry Williams Case Highlights the Need for Death Penalty Moratorium – The
Executive Editor
When Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina stayed the execution of Terry Williams, she dealt a blow to the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Now the public has caught a glimpse of prosecutorial misconduct and evidence suppression in the application of the death penalty, and it isn’t pretty. Official misconduct was the second most common…
When Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina stayed the execution of Terry Williams, she dealt a blow to the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Now the…
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The African World
Chavez does it again!
Editorial Board
Let me start by being clear that i am in favor of term limits. I am not in favor of people running forever. That said, the victory of President Chavez is a tremendous one, and not just for him as an individual. There are those who are committed to turning the clock backwards and they…
Let me start by being clear that i am in favor of term limits. I am not in favor of people running forever. That said, the…
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Commentary
Gay Boxer Knocks Out a Stereotype
Editorial Board
I could have never imaged an openly gay professional boxer. Then I found Orlando Cruz. This 31-year-old Puerto Rican featherweight is revving up to challenge Mexican boxer Jorge Pazos for the World Boxing Organization’s (WBO) Latino title. Cruz has a good chance at it. Their greatest fear is being beaten by Cruz. “I’ve been fighting…
I could have never imaged an openly gay professional boxer. Then I found Orlando Cruz. This 31-year-old Puerto Rican featherweight is revving up to challenge Mexican…
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Commentary
Is The NAACP Now Just Another Republicrat Corporate Front?
Editorial Board
“…the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ of non-recognition, no matter how we vote…May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either Republican or the Democratic parties.” -W.E.B. Du Bois “No, I think the strongest suggestion is that…
“...the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ of non-recognition, no matter how we vote...May God write us down…
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Commentary
In California: Still Another Plot Against Democracy
Editorial Board
They are determined to reshape politics in the interest of the one-percent. Quiet as it’s kept while the nation’s attention is focused on the November 6 Presidential election, a ballot box battle is underway in California, the implications of which extend far beyond the borders of the country’s largest state. Here, rightwing big business operative…
They are determined to reshape politics in the interest of the one-percent. Quiet as it’s kept while the nation’s attention is focused on the November 6…
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