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Feb 28, 2013

Commentary

Book Review – Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons – A Narrative of Struggle

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. -Nikolai Lenin You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. -G.K.…

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and…

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Commentary

Another Tragedy in the Rainforest

By John Funiciello Columnist

In ancient Greece, Euripides, the playwright, told the story around 416 B.C. about a man who returned home after a long absence expecting to be reunited with his wife and children, only to be driven mad resulting in their deaths at his hand. The man was Hercules and the play was a tragedy, as was…

In ancient Greece, Euripides, the playwright, told the story around 416 B.C. about a man who returned home after a long absence expecting to be reunited…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Chris Brown and Rihanna… Their Ultra-Dysfunctional “Relationship” is Precisely What’s Wrong with Black America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Yes, I know there’s dysfunctionalism across White America, however that’s irrelevant and meaningless to the plight of Black folks; if White folks, collectively, have got a cold or some perhaps even the flu, we Black folks must have Cancer, Tuberculosis, Polio, Leprosy. I know, I know, I know, the poster boy n’ girl are “Black…

Yes, I know there’s dysfunctionalism across White America, however that’s irrelevant and meaningless to the plight of Black folks; if White folks, collectively, have got a…

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Commentary

Self-Determination is the Key

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

In order for the African Community in America to continue our fight for self-determination and dignity, it is important that we remind ourselves of the nature of the American dynamic. Essentially, and at the foundation of the American-European dynamic, is the fact that it is made up of many nations who migrated to this country…

In order for the African Community in America to continue our fight for self-determination and dignity, it is important that we remind ourselves of the nature…

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