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Issue: 97

July 1, 2004

Cover Story

Hip Hop Generation Agenda – More than music and style

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“We need a national agenda to make sure that our community has more than music and style. We can’t continue to do bootleg activism. We’ve got to do institutional activism, creating media outlets that will push our propaganda.” – Jeff Johnson, America Votes youth coordinator and commentator for BET’s “Rap City” “We’re all activists. The…

“We need a national agenda to make sure that our community has more than music and style. We can’t continue to do bootleg activism. We’ve got…

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Commentary

Freedom Rider: The F Word

By Margaret Kimberley Guest Commentator

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they have resisted with either words or blows or with both. The…

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the…

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Guest Commentary

The Miller Beating and LAPD’s Culture Of Abuse

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

In the aftermath of LAPD’s latest abuse scandal, a video taped beating of an unarmed, surrendered Black man, it is time to take on this illusion that LAPD has, somehow reformed itself, simply because it has had a change of “head” three times in the last ten years – when in fact, LAPD has had…

In the aftermath of LAPD's latest abuse scandal, a video taped beating of an unarmed, surrendered Black man, it is time to take on this illusion…

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Commentary

The Small and Minority Business Game

By James Clingman

This article originally appeared in BlackPressUSA.com. I have questioned the word “minority” and caused a few high-brow eyebrows to be raised at my exposure of the games they have been playing on Black businesses. Now they are conducting a stealth move away from one demeaning term to one that is more palatable. More and more…

This article originally appeared in BlackPressUSA.com. I have questioned the word "minority" and caused a few high-brow eyebrows to be raised at my exposure of the…

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Commentary

Commemorate The Struggle Against Slavery and It’s Abolition

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

“Lest We Forget: Triumph Over Slavery” Presented by: The Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture The New York Public Library Click on the link below to view the movie http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/flash.html

“Lest We Forget: Triumph Over Slavery" Presented by: The Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture The New York Public Library Click on the link below…

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