Issue: 85

Commentary

Cover Story: Wal-Mart Prepares to Bury the Left

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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This article by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, Co-Publishers, originally appeared in In These Times. Jim, John, Alice, Sam and Helen may carry the world’s most dangerous genetic markers. They are the Waltons, heirs to the global destructive force called Wal-Mart. With more than $100 billion in personal assets between them, the five Waltons occupy…

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This article by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, Co-Publishers, originally appeared in In These Times. Jim, John, Alice, Sam and Helen may carry the world’s most…

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Cartoon

Cartoon: The Waltons

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

BlackCommentator.com Enters 3rd Year

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail & Fax: 202.318.4032 The weekly Internet publication www.BlackCommentator.com enters its third year providing commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans with the publication of issue number 85 on April 8, 2004. BlackCommentator.com published its first issue on…

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News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble e-Mail: [email protected] VoiceMail & Fax: 202.318.4032 The weekly Internet publication www.BlackCommentator.com enters its…

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Commentary

No Fetus Left Behind

By Margaret Kimberley bc Guest Commentator

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George W. Bush and the Republican Party love embryos and fetuses, but their concern for children who have already been born is less apparent. The “unborn” are so loved by the right wing that the President signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), a federal law that increases penalties for assaults or injuries to…

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George W. Bush and the Republican Party love embryos and fetuses, but their concern for children who have already been born is less apparent. The “unborn”…

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Commentary

Center Trumps Left in a Recent PBS Series on Race in America

By Paul Street bc Guest Commentator

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“Skip” Gates is at it again: warning us about the dangerous, self-destructive choices being made by the United States’ poorest black citizens. I am referring to Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, who describes himself as “center left” and holds three prestigious academic titles, all at Harvard: W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Afro-American…

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“Skip” Gates is at it again: warning us about the dangerous, self-destructive choices being made by the United States’ poorest black citizens. I am referring to…

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Art

Art Forms: Still Searching for my Sovereign Self

By The Black Commentator bc Guest Commentator

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Commentary

Hate American Style: Iraq Trees Bearing Strange Fruit

By Walter Fields

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The following article first appeared in The NorthStar Network. Are We Now Prepared To Deal Truthfully with the American Experience? The anger in the voices of U.S. military personnel and news commentators was evident in the immediate aftermath of the killing of four American civilian contractors, and the desecration of their bodies by an angry…

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The following article first appeared in The NorthStar Network. Are We Now Prepared To Deal Truthfully with the American Experience? The anger in the voices of…

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