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August 8, 2002

Commentary

The State of Black American Politics

By Dr. Martin Kilson Editorial Board

Dr. Martin Kilson’s grand overview of the course of Black American electoral politics during the past three decades is required reading for all persons concerned with U.S. history and politics. Kilson’s exposition and interpretation of the “core agenda” that has mobilized African American activists, politicians and voters, from passage of the Voting Rights Act of…

Dr. Martin Kilson's grand overview of the course of Black American electoral politics during the past three decades is required reading for all persons concerned with…

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Dignity – Plus a Living Wage and Benefits Home health care workers win victories – for themselves and civilization

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The people who control the machinery of popular American culture do not truly believe in the dignity of labor. How could they, in a nation built on the backs of slaves, a society in which human worth – humanness, itself – was measured in direct inverse ratio to the difficulty of the tasks performed. The…

The people who control the machinery of popular American culture do not truly believe in the dignity of labor. How could they, in a nation built…

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A letter to our readers Burger King digested Ashcroft stalks librarians Cory Booker roams wilderness

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Dear Reader, It is difficult to fight an enemy whose dimensions are almost impossible to envision, a foe that ravages the landscape from such heights and at speeds that human minds are not wired to grasp. Corporate financial entities soar like huge, crazed flocks of Japanese movie “Rodan” flying dinosaurs or mythic Chinese dragons, flattening…

Dear Reader, It is difficult to fight an enemy whose dimensions are almost impossible to envision, a foe that ravages the landscape from such heights and…

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