May 02, 2013
Commentary
Editorial Board
The African American community, let alone the sports world, desperately needed an openly gay current male professional player.
The professional sports world has been waiting for a Jason Collins moment - a gay athlete currently playing in a major league to come out publicly.…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Silence is complicity and it really is betrayal – betrayal of the aspirations and legitimate needs of everyday people. Our task is to be true to principles in this long and protracted people's struggle.
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter…
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Commentary
Columnist
Almost always, the lethal conflicts that divide us arise from the often tangled roots of these foundational mental memes.
In the “creases” and “folds” of “America’s” Weltanschauung, hidden tendencies are encouraged and perspectives exist that are downright nasty. These mental viruses (memes), these shades that…
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Art
Guest Commentator
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Commentary
Editorial Board
It is rather euphemistic to speak of “partnerships” when it is really about corporate domination here and aboard.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. -George Orwell, 1984 Liberals have traditionally…
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Commentary
Columnist
small, “anti-personnel” devices (either cluster bomblets or mines) are made to wound or kill, and they are designed to cause disruption in the daily lives of the people who have been unfortunate enough to be the targets.
Whether dropped from aircraft, shot from artillery pieces, or delivered by missile, cluster bombs can disperse dozens or even hundreds of so-called “bomblets” that can lie…
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Commentary
Columnist
A United Front is the necessary mechanism by which the political consciousness of African people in America can be raised.
Special Note: My family and I would like to thank all of you who expressed your love and support for the passing into eternity of my…
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The African World
Editorial Board
It suggests that the USA will continue to exert its influence through implied threats.
When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sorts of changes he would introduce in the relationship of…
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Commentary
Columnist
Mastering the politics of grand distraction make those who should be irrelevant to a process, the center of the discussion.
The Republican’s success, in the intentional blocking of gun control legislation, has some very significant ramifications for the Obama policy agenda. It was painful to watch…
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