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September 21, 2017

Commentary

More Brainwashing Going on Regarding Kaepernick Than Calling One Fumble a “Tuck” – Point Blank

By Chris Stevenson Columnist

The fact that you can find some black NFL players or ex-players to publicly disagree with former Superbowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick is nothing more than predictable. When LeSean Shady McCoy, Dancin’ Ray Ray Lewis, or Michael “Stockholm Syndrome” Vick tell Kaep to “get a haircut” or call him a “distraction,” then the three of them just became the guy on 110th street trying to sell me some watches.

More than once he overstepped the line of prosperity and had minor brushes with the law John M. Carroll’s “Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement.” There…

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Guest Commentary

Wishing Malcolm Was Here!

By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD Guest Commentator

There is, for African-Americans and those others who inhabit our diaspora, as I see it, a burning need for strong, determined, and committed leadership; possessor of a clear vision and goal that serves to guide our people; a leader - man or woman - with sense of command and loyalty.

There is a scene – a perhaps prescient and telling one—in Spike Lee’s movie “Malcolm X” - in which Malcolm, with a slight movement of his…

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Commentary

African People and the Real Meaning of Education, Part 1

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The task of re-conceptualizing a new educational ethos is to understand that the mission of our education should be to make a whole people again as the Reparations Movement is demanding. Making us whole again is a process that defines education in the context of our own political, economic, cultural, and spiritual needs.

Education is the process of instilling the values of a society, group, nation, race, or ethnic group. It is the method by which people are taught…

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