Jul 11, 2013
Commentary
Editorial Board
Low-income families who are really struggling in this economy don’t have the resources to mount a huge campaign to bombard Capitol Hill,”
The story is being spread that the “sequester,” has not turned out as harmful as had been expected, indeed, that it is causing very little harm.…
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Art
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The decision to be free is the decision to reject the injustice and inequality, the violence, of those bent on expanding global franchises of the enslaved.
She was born in Poland, lived in Germany. She dedicated her life to social revolution, right up to the day at the beginning of 1919 when…
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Commentary
Columnist
China is not examining carefully the results of similar experimentation in the developed world, such as the U.S., where the process of urbanization has been occurring since shortly after World War II.
About 40 years ago, news reached the U.S. that Mao Zedong instructed his people that he wanted Chinese agriculture to be more like that of the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
How do black people set-aside the harsh reality that is America to praise a system that does not work for us on so many different levels?
Let me see if I’ve got this whole “Love America” thing straight. As George Zimmerman smugly sits in a Land-Of-Dixie courtroom, perhaps but only moments away…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
confronts head-on the stereotype that black southerners were docile, head-hanging, cheek-turning second class citizens.
Mississippi: Armed SNCC members abduct white night riders and release them after giving them a warning. A white cop gets knocked unconscious by a black man…
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Commentary
Columnist
The contributions of African people must be emphasized throughout the year.
The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning…
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Commentary
Columnist
The absence of advocacy will not equate to an absence of outrage.
One of the most outrageous and egregious events ever occurred in Los Angeles last week. It was troubling, not because it was a function of society’s…
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