496 – Black Commentator

Commentary

Walmart’s Black Friday and “Convict Leasing” of the 99%

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Reading Charles Silberman’s Crisis in Black and White after its publication the prior year, Martin Luther King scribbled a long note in the margins of his personal copy: ‘The South deluded itself with the illusion that the Negro was happy in his place; the North deluded itself with the illusion that it had freed the…

Reading Charles Silberman’s Crisis in Black and White after its publication the prior year, Martin Luther King scribbled a long note in the margins of his…

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Commentary

Who Rules?

By John Funiciello Columnist

For a while there in California, it looked as if the people were headed for a period of democratic rule, but that was early in the game of see-if-we-can-label-genetically-modified-foods, as the majority of people told pollsters they had wanted. The position of Corporate America on GMOs is like their position on the harmful effects of…

For a while there in California, it looked as if the people were headed for a period of democratic rule, but that was early in the…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

They Still Hang Black Women in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Joe Watkins, MSNBC’s in-house go-to Conservative “House-Negro…” is apparently blind to or ignorant of both the historical and contemporary nature of US race relations, because my head spun around like the little girl in the Exorcist listening to this clown tap-dance and tip toe away – with white gloves, cane n’ top hat – the…

Joe Watkins, MSNBC’s in-house go-to Conservative “House-Negro…” is apparently blind to or ignorant of both the historical and contemporary nature of US race relations, because my…

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Commentary

Understanding the History of Haiti

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Much has been said about Haiti and its historical context. In order to understand the history of Haiti and the importance of the Haitian Revolution when Haitian people proclaimed their independence on January 1, 1804, everyone should begin reading and studying about Haiti. We must do this in preparation for the long struggle that will…

Much has been said about Haiti and its historical context. In order to understand the history of Haiti and the importance of the Haitian Revolution when…

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Cartoon

Political Cartoon

By Chuck Siler

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Color of Law

Dr. King Can Help Build the Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance Movement – The

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

In Israel and Palestine, a nonviolent resistance movement seeks peace and justice.There is a straight line linking the human rights struggles around the globe, and the movements of the past with the movements of today. And those who have lived through the U.S. civil rights movement, the teachings of King and Gandhi, and the anti-apartheid…

In Israel and Palestine, a nonviolent resistance movement seeks peace and justice.There is a straight line linking the human rights struggles around the globe, and the…

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Cover Story

Lincoln and Race: Not So Simple

By Wilson Riles Columnist

We should remember that it was Lincoln and the Republicans (in a Congress without advocates for a southern route) who championed the transcontinental railroad that with Federal support lead to the rise of the national railroad barons, progenitors of the corporatist Romney.Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Lincoln, ‘speaks’ to the race-consciousness of the nation at a propitious…

We should remember that it was Lincoln and the Republicans (in a Congress without advocates for a southern route) who championed the transcontinental railroad that with…

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Guest Commentary

Fixing Up America

By Larry Matthews Guest Commentator

Quite by accident, I recently found myself listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Like many people, I see Limbaugh as a cigar smoking windbag whose world is limited to other wealthy far, far right nutbags whose connections to the world everyone else lives in were cut long ago. As it happened, on this day…

Quite by accident, I recently found myself listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Like many people, I see Limbaugh as a cigar smoking windbag whose…

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Commentary

Petition to US White House and State Department: Condemn Israeli Aggression in Gaza

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Statement Regarding the Aggression Against Gaza Rather than taking a stand against Israeli’s onslaught and issuing an unambiguous demand for an end to the bloodshed, the Obama administration has condemned alleged Palestinian terrorism, repeating the dishonest line that this violent attack is merely in…

African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Statement Regarding the Aggression Against Gaza Rather than taking a stand against Israeli’s onslaught and…

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Commentary

Political Cartoon

By Eric Garcia Cartoonist/Artist

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Issue: 496