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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD is Professor Emeritus C.U.N.Y. - Brooklyn College. In the sixties, he served as an Associate Editor of the Liberator magazine. As such, he was one of the first to interview Malcolm X after he left the Nation. He is best remembered as the founder of Black Solidarity Day in New York in 1969 and as the Chair of the Black Caucus of the Conference on New Politics in 1967. In addition, he was a consultant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the planning for the Poor Peoples March. Excerpts of his participation can be seen in Citizen King and Eyes on the Prize (PBS Mini Series Boxed Set). Born in the Republic of Panama, he has served as that country’s representative to the U.N and the O.A.S. with the rank of Ambassador. He has also served as the nightly host of “Thinking it Through” a talk show that was aired on WLIB in New York. He is a playwright and poet as well. Contact Dr.Russell. This is a new BC feature. If you have a publication from the past you can scan and send us a copy or can provide a link to something you think is a good fit, please do. Thanks. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble
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Those who are leading the charge against the middle class, the working poor and the poor, as has been their historical wont, are unflinchingly using every means at their disposal to obtain their ends.
When Lawrence Peter Berra – “Yogi” to the world - made his now legendary malapropos “It is like d�j� vu all over again,” his remark caused…
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Over the past few years I have written a number of open letters to “Mis Paisanos y Paisanas.” In all honesty most of them, if not all, have been directed to those of “African Ancestry.” To be more specific they were addressed to those Panamanians whose forefathers journeyed to Panama for the construction of the…
Over the past few years I have written a number of open letters to “Mis Paisanos y Paisanas.” In all honesty most of them, if not…
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