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Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD

PhD

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Conrad W. Worrill, PhD, is the National Chairman Emeritus of the National Black United Front (NBUF). Contact Dr. Worrill and BC. This page can be shared David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

395 pieces

Commentary

Reclaiming Our Youth

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Reclaiming our youth involves re-establishing and creating a rites of passage concept for African in American youth that becomes the basis for all youth program development.

The impact of African people being captured in the slave trade and introduced into the western hemisphere as property and commodity are at the root of…

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Continuing the Demand for Reparations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

International law supports the position that the enslavement of Africans was a crime against humanity. The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal defined crimes against humanity in this manner: 'Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetuated.'

We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century. The United Nations World Conference Against Racism in…

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Remembering Lu Palmer

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

From the early 1950s, Lu worked in a variety positions as a journalist, communicator, writer, and educator. The name Lu Palmer is synonymous with the quest of Black people’s efforts in Chicago and around the country in our fight for self determination and independence.

We should always remember some of our great ancestors. One such ancestor is Lu Palmer. On Sunday, September 12, 2004, Lu Palmer made his transition to…

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The Maroon Within Us

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

“If there is a major illness among African American people it is that we unceasingly honor and utilize our culture less. All great nations and people do the opposite.”

Our late, great ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people…

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Education and Economic Independence

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better understand the importance of economic self-reliance.

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the…

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A Book to Read: Should America Pay?

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The worldwide African Reparations Movement has become unified around the fact that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism were Crimes Against Humanity.

Henry Louis Gates recently wrote an Op-Ed article that appeared in the New York Times on April 23, 2010, essentially attempting to re-conceptualize the reparations issue…

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Haiti and the Haitian Revolution

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

At this time, with the multitude of challenges that face our brothers and sisters, we must lift up our spirits and continue, with a vengeance, the great work that is needed to restore Haiti. Far too many African people are unfamiliar with the significance of Haiti, the Haitian Revolution, and its impact on the world.

Much has been said about Haiti and its historical context. In order to understand the history of Haiti and the importance of the Haitian Revolution when…

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Studying the Works of Dr. Bobby Wright

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The invasions, intrusions, thefts, murders, pillaging, and the decimation and destruction of African lands, bodies, minds, and spirits over these 2,000 years is the basis for our on-going struggle for African Liberation worldwide.

So many of the problems that African people face in the world today are due to the assault on our minds by those who captured us…

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Teaching the Truth and Reparations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Throughout the country, Africans in America are now becoming more sensitive to challenging the racist and white supremacist basis of the African public school curriculum.

The movement to implement an appropriate African Centered Curriculum in predominately African in America inner city schools is critical to the on–going struggle for the liberation…

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