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Issue: 70

December 25, 2003

Commentary

Cover Story: White Terror

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Bush men decorate our holidays in Homeland Security yellow, orange and red, while demonizing Islamic green as the color of the most implacable foes of Western “civilization.” Yet official silence conspires to hide genocidal maniacs in our midst who have sworn to erase the Black presence from the landscape of the United States: White…

The Bush men decorate our holidays in Homeland Security yellow, orange and red, while demonizing Islamic green as the color of the most implacable foes of…

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Art Form: Solstice

Art

Art Form: Solstice

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Reverend Henry Lyons: Repentant or Still Scheming?

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

Is religion the opiate of the people? As a bible toting Baptist I take umbrage at efforts to equate religious belief with stupidity. But sometimes my fellow believers make it difficult to rise to their defense. Rev. Henry Lyons is the poster child for the specious argument that religious belief is synonymous with ignorance. In…

Is religion the opiate of the people? As a bible toting Baptist I take umbrage at efforts to equate religious belief with stupidity. But sometimes my…

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Commentary

The”Food Justice”Movement

By Mark Winston Griffith

The following article was originally published in Gotham Gazette, a publication of the Citizens Union Foundation. One of the great, often unspoken, forms of oppression that low- and moderate-income communities suffer through is the lack of access to healthy food. When I moved back to Central Brooklyn in 1985, I was struck by its barren…

The following article was originally published in Gotham Gazette, a publication of the Citizens Union Foundation. One of the great, often unspoken, forms of oppression that…

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Guest Commentary

To Hell with the British Commonwealth

By Mark P. Fancher Guest Commentator

When Zimbabwe recently declared to the world that continuing public humiliation by the British Commonwealth, and its curb on the country’s right to self-determination were too high a price to pay for membership in that body, the Southern African nation followed the sterling example set by Guinea 45 years ago. In 1958, as France read…

When Zimbabwe recently declared to the world that continuing public humiliation by the British Commonwealth, and its curb on the country’s right to self-determination were too…

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