Issue: 510
Mar 28, 2013
The African World
Claiming the 1963 March on Washington
Editorial Board
August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, this march brought more than 250,000 people to Washington, DC to demand freedom and jobs. Initiated by Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters President A. Philip Randolph, this became a joint project with…
August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech, this march brought…
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Commentary
Save “Negro”: Really??
Columnist
I read a commentary recently lamenting the elimination of the designation of the term, “Negro” for American born Africans, now commonly referred to as “African Americans,” from the U.S. Census form. I just shook my head, said “Good-bye, Negro” and turned the page. I didn’t pay much attention to it. Then, one of my more…
I read a commentary recently lamenting the elimination of the designation of the term, “Negro” for American born Africans, now commonly referred to as “African Americans,”…
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Cover Story
Hunger – Some Lessons Never Learned
Columnist
In the early 1970s, there were news stories for a very short time about the foreign fishing boats that were taking thousands (millions?) of tons of anchovies on a regular basis off the west coast of South America and some warned of overfishing of those stocks. Fast forward four decades and the same warnings are…
In the early 1970s, there were news stories for a very short time about the foreign fishing boats that were taking thousands (millions?) of tons of…
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Commentary
Pimping the Pain of Political Prisoners in this Bastion of Hypocrisy
Editorial Board
“If you’re not willing to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” – Bobby Sands In the year 1978, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, publicly stated that, “There are hundreds, perhaps thousands,…
“If you're not willing to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.” - Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Our revenge will be…
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Commentary
Obama in Israel: A Fine Speech, an Unfortunate Change & Not Much Hope
Editorial Board
Philip Stephens, the chief political commentator for the Financial Times, summed it up pretty well I think: “Barack Obama gives a fine speech,” he wrote. “He did it again in Jerusalem. Few can match the US president in wrapping intelligent understanding in the pentameters of poetry. That’s why the vaulting rhetoric so often begets disappointment.…
Philip Stephens, the chief political commentator for the Financial Times, summed it up pretty well I think: “Barack Obama gives a fine speech,” he wrote. “He…
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Commentary
Change of Heart Reveals Hate
Columnist
So I know you heard the latest tear in the fabric of the Republican Party, and even more so in the conservative movement…Senator Rob Portman became the most prominent Republican lawmaker to back gay rights when he reversed his opposition to same-sex marriage last Friday, two years after his son told him he was gay.…
So I know you heard the latest tear in the fabric of the Republican Party, and even more so in the conservative movement…Senator Rob Portman became…
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