Issue: 513
Apr 18, 2013
The African World
Watching Oliver Stone’s “The Untold History of the United States”
Editorial Board
Am I hallucinating? Is this actually on mainstream television?
Showtime is re-running Oliver Stone’s ten part documentary, The Untold History of the United States. Truth be told, I stumbled across this when it was originally…
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Commentary
Why Jackie Robinson Still Matters
Columnist
Jackie Robinson showed us that blacks and whites could co-exist on the same intellectual, emotional and physical planes.
There are some things in our society that matter and need not be explained. We live in a society where we have forgotten about the things…
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Guest Commentary
Can the Boston Bombings Increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for all such Victims?
Guest Commentato
Whatever sick mind dreamed up this act did not manifest the essence of any large group of people. Terrorists and supremacists represent only themselves, and always harm their own ethnic or religious group along with everyone else.
The horrific bombings of the Boston Marathon produced inspiring images of a spirited, brave Boston refusing to be cowed. Some spectators surged forward toward the danger…
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Commentary
Obama as the Cover For U.S. Perpetual War, Austerity, and Racism
Editorial Board
Human and political rights in the U.S. is an utter farce. And it will continue to be such until everyday people collectively say, “NO MORE!” and systemically CHANGE IT!
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. “Hide nothing from…
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Art
Quote to Ponder: “It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today…” – Barack Obama
Guest Commentator
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Commentary
“Joy to the World”: The Liberal’s Proposed Social Security and Medicare Cuts
Editorial Board
The Liberals cannot distance themselves from the consequences of their relationship with the Right...
Thus, the gravest omission from the ‘general picture’ was that of a witness to testify to the cooperation between the Nazi rulers and the Jewish authorities,…
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