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Editorial Board

Larry Pinkney

Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to view Larry’s interview of October 26, 2012. Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

262 pieces

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Wall Street’s Finance Capitalists: Blood Suckers of the People

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

What would everyday men and women of “America” do with over 700 billion dollars? What of affordable single payer health care, employment, decent housing, education, and just plain social and economic equality or fairness in this nation? The blood-sucking Wall Street finance capitalists who support the Democratic and Republican Parties, and most notably the U.S.…

What would everyday men and women of “America” do with over 700 billion dollars? What of affordable single payer health care, employment, decent housing, education, and…

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Economics: Barack Obama & John McCain – Two Sides of the Same Waning Empire

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The very fact that many in this nation of the United States of America, are so superficially excited about the possibility of a so-called “Black” U.S. President of the “American’ Empire” is a manifestation of precisely how racist and utterly hypocritical this nation remains. Barack Obama and John McCain are two sides of the same…

The very fact that many in this nation of the United States of America, are so superficially excited about the possibility of a so-called “Black” U.S.…

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Emory Douglas & Billy X Jennings: Keepers of the Flame & Guardians of the Legacy

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Grasping what has been achieved in the past is an important foundation upon which to build for the present and the future. Without this foundation we are but directionless leaves, blowing in the wind. The Black Panther Party awakened a radicalized political consciousness in the United States and throughout the world, whose impact is multi…

Grasping what has been achieved in the past is an important foundation upon which to build for the present and the future. Without this foundation we…

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Freedom’s Struggle Is Constant & Ongoing

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

If there is one constant in the political universe it must surely be the ongoing necessity for consciousness-raising and political struggle. Social, economic, and political justice are inextricably linked to attaining real freedom. Without justice there is no freedom regardless as to what personalities might emerge on the political stage saying otherwise. Freedom has not…

If there is one constant in the political universe it must surely be the ongoing necessity for consciousness-raising and political struggle. Social, economic, and political justice…

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Barack Obama: Playing the “Race Card” While Politically Castrating the Race & the Nation – Keeping it Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The problem for political conjurers and tricksters is that sooner or later their trickery will engulf them. They are of course aware of this and spare no hypocrisy in making every effort to expeditiously obtain political power for the historical moment, always at the ultimate expense of the masses of everyday common folk. Due to…

The problem for political conjurers and tricksters is that sooner or later their trickery will engulf them. They are of course aware of this and spare…

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The Oakland Community School, Oakland, CA / The Hope Is Our Young People – In Struggle Spotlight

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

[Read Parts 1 and 2] This is the 3rd and final part of an interview in late June 2008, with Ericka Huggins, former national Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party. In this portion Sister Ericka continues her very informative narrative about the Oakland Community School, Oakland, CA. Sister Ericka Huggins explained that the…

[Read Parts 1 and 2] This is the 3rd and final part of an interview in late June 2008, with Ericka Huggins, former national Minister of…

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Moving Further Backwards in the Name of Progress & Change – Keeping it Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Those who align themselves with the proverbial devil should not be surprised when they are dispatched to hell. Such is the hellish political reality of the U.S. Empire’s hoodwinking Democratic and Republican Parties, those ignoble Republicrats who pretend to loosen their corporate and military stranglehold on the peoples of this nation and world – only…

Those who align themselves with the proverbial devil should not be surprised when they are dispatched to hell. Such is the hellish political reality of the…

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The Oakland Community School, Oakland, CA – In Struggle Spotlight

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The following is Part 2 of an interview in late June 2008, with Ericka Huggins, former national Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party. [Click here to read Part 1] As the interview of Sister Ericka broadens in scope, she continues to elucidate brilliantly the historical beginning, objectives, and accomplishments of the Oakland Community…

The following is Part 2 of an interview in late June 2008, with Ericka Huggins, former national Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party. [Click…

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Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente: Building a Movement For REAL Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

While CNN, ABC, C-SPAN, etc. did give some limited coverage of and to this incredibly momentous event; none of the pundits of these so-called “main stream news” media outlets dared elucidate to the “American” people the enormous present-day and historical significance and opportunities of what just happened in Chicago. None of these pundits dared explain…

While CNN, ABC, C-SPAN, etc. did give some limited coverage of and to this incredibly momentous event; none of the pundits of these so-called “main stream…

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