Guest Commentator

Rhone Fraser

Rhone Fraser is a graduate assistant in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida. Contact: [email protected].

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Yet Another Hard Road To Glory

By Rhone Fraser Guest Commentator

Historian Darlene Clark-Hine writes that “the experience of black men and women in American sports are a microcosm of their lives in American society. The privileges whites enjoyed in sports paralleled the disadvantages and exclusions that were a constant part of black life.” Certainly the ordeal experienced this year by 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist Shani…

Historian Darlene Clark-Hine writes that “the experience of black men and women in American sports are a microcosm of their lives in American society. The privileges…

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Being ‘The Covenant’ Watchdog: Does Tavis Smiley Need Watching?

By Rhone Fraser Guest Commentator

YOUNG: Well, tell them to go there and try to live there themselves. We…take for granted such a high quality of life. And then we’re gonna get righteous when other people wanna live that way? Africa does not mind food. People are dying of AIDS, yes, but more people are dying of hunger… I’m very…

YOUNG: Well, tell them to go there and try to live there themselves. We…take for granted such a high quality of life. And then we’re gonna…

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Revisiting King’s ‘White Moderate’

By Rhone Fraser Guest Commentator

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died at the age of thirty-nine, on April 4, 1968, exactly one year after the same day he gave one of his most memorable speeches on April 4, 1967 at Harlem’s Riverside Church, calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. As we approach the thirty-ninth anniversary of this…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died at the age of thirty-nine, on April 4, 1968, exactly one year after the same day he gave one of…

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Interview with Katrina

By Rhone Fraser Guest Commentator

Katrina: Oh I come from a long, line of folks. These people here in America, they bring me here. Myself: Could you describe “these people here in America”? Katrina: These people that’s turning up the heat on this whole place. I don’t know why they don’t work with everybody else to stop makin’ it so…

Katrina: Oh I come from a long, line of folks. These people here in America, they bring me here. Myself: Could you describe "these people here…

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