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Issue: 995

April 4, 2024

Commentary

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Speech – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Guest Commentary

Reject the Virus of Xenophobia

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

These heroic men who lost their lives were not “poisoning the blood of our country,” rather, on the contrary, they were rejuvenating it!

Leave it up to the political right to attempt to make a cheap attempt to politically as well as perversely capitalize off human tragedy. For most…

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Guest Commentary

Linguistic Profiling

By Patrice D. Johnson Guest Commentator

Call it TWB - Talking While Black.

Racists have some slippery ways of denying their guilt. When charged with administering job or school application tests that are culturally biased, they claim the tests…

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Commentary

Psychologically Unfit

By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble Publishers

Why There Is So Much Error in Capital Cases, and What Can Be Done About It,

Hungary's beleaguered Gypsies, or Roma, constitute 5% of the population but account for around 60% of the nation's male prison inmates. The penal system of Romania,…

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Commentary

Common Threads – Philadelphia Wall Mural

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The mural was sponsored by: Mid- Atlantic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Ellis Gimbel Charitable Trust, Ernst & Young,National Endowment for the Arts, City of Philadelphia.

The mural was sponsored by: Mid- Atlantic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Ellis Gimbel Charitable Trust, Ernst & Young,National Endowment for the…

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