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Glen Ford and Peter Gamble are writing a book to be entitled, Barack Obama and the Crisis in Black Leadership.
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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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The Black Commentator is on hiatus until August 31st. We are proud of the work that we have done in the last year, to advance the struggle of all the world’s people. We at BC are internationalists, and have been blessed by the participation in our project by BC Editor Bruce Dixon, a Chicago native…
The Black Commentator is on hiatus until August 31st. We are proud of the work that we have done in the last year, to advance the…
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Massacre is an acquired taste. The United States is arguably the only country on the planet whose national personality and self-image is rooted in centuries of unremitting expansion through race war punctuated by massacre. There have always been “free-fire zones” all along the coveted, ever moving peripheries of white American power, from the “Indian country”…
Massacre is an acquired taste. The United States is arguably the only country on the planet whose national personality and self-image is rooted in centuries of…
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The Democrats hope for – but are doing next to nothing to achieve – victory at the polls in November. Should that unearned triumph occur in the U.S. House of Representatives, African Americans will ascend to key committee positions, potentially pivotal to national policy and budgetary direction. But what will they do with these new…
The Democrats hope for – but are doing next to nothing to achieve – victory at the polls in November. Should that unearned triumph occur in…
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There are profound lessons to be learned from the ongoing travails of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), under siege by white America at large, the leadership of her own party, and the chairman of her own caucus. In the aftermath of McKinney’s run-in with a Capitol Hill police officer, we have witnessed an orgy of unadulterated…
There are profound lessons to be learned from the ongoing travails of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), under siege by white America at large, the leadership of…
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In four years of operations, BlackCommentator.com has become the most influential Black political magazine on or off the Internet. We have achieved much of our social mission: to help shape and frame the dialogue, first, within the African American polity and, secondly, between African Americans and their non-Black allies. We have attempted to draw “bright…
In four years of operations, BlackCommentator.com has become the most influential Black political magazine on or off the Internet. We have achieved much of our social…
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Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his great-grandparents, by claiming that their lives were frauds and lies – that they were whites passing for Black. There seem to be no limits to the young congressman’s perfidy…
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., who wants to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has sunk lower than a snake. He has defamed his grandmother, and his…
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On the day that the Iraq invasion began, BC was certain that the U.S. Pirate class led by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were on a fool’s errand, a delusional mission that would turn the world’s people definitively against the United States, and lead to defeat. That defeat is now accepted as a matter of fact…
On the day that the Iraq invasion began, BC was certain that the U.S. Pirate class led by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were on a fool’s…
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Katrina shows there’s a lesson to be learned about continued racial inequality The differences of perceptions based on an event to which the entire nation was exposed in living color, are staggeringly instructive. Blacks and whites saw the same images, but perceived them differently. The Dawson poll, which included approximately 500 whites and 700 Blacks,…
Katrina shows there's a lesson to be learned about continued racial inequality The differences of perceptions based on an event to which the entire nation was…
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