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The electronic wonders of the Internet allow us to declare with finality that Khalil Bendib’s January 30 cartoon “The Devil’s Handmaiden” is his most popular work to date on . Bendib’s depiction of Condeleezza Rice’s climb up the ladder of success, only to reject the mechanisms of minority upward mobility once they had served her…

The electronic wonders of the Internet allow us to declare with finality that Khalil Bendib's January 30 cartoon "The Devil's Handmaiden" is his most popular work…

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The Issues

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“We have a President that is Hell bent on war,” said Rev. Al Sharpton. “I think the President is determined to go to war no matter what.” Only one other Democratic presidential hopeful comes even close to speaking the unadorned truth about Bush’s warlust – and nobody knows his name. (It’s Howard Dean, the former…

"We have a President that is Hell bent on war," said Rev. Al Sharpton. "I think the President is determined to go to war no matter…

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The GOP’s two-ring Black “outreach” circus

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Send in the Clowns: The GOP’s two-ring Black “outreach” circus To the outside observer, the Republican Party may seem to have no coherent plan for Black America. Actually, the GOP has two game plans. One is a farcical show of “inclusion” through appointments and hiring, a petty cash and publicity diversion designed to have no…

Send in the Clowns: The GOP’s two-ring Black "outreach" circus To the outside observer, the Republican Party may seem to have no coherent plan for Black…

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…AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

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In 1964, a young man named Lawrence Guyot epitomized black America’s long struggle for the right to vote when he organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to protest the state’s all-white elections, and its decision to send an all-white delegation to that year’s nominating convention in Atlantic City. In the face of violent resistance, Guyot…

In 1964, a young man named Lawrence Guyot epitomized black America's long struggle for the right to vote when he organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party…

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Cartoon – The Devil’s Handmaiden

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Our readers seem to have made a collective resolution to write more letters to in the New Year. They have succeeded in creating a column that is chock-a-block with opinion and wit, well worth the visit. Last week’s lead commentary, “Condoleezza Rice: The Devil’s Handmaiden,” stirred a pot that we believe has long been too…

Our readers seem to have made a collective resolution to write more letters to in the New Year. They have succeeded in creating a column that…

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The Issues

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The anti-war coalition A.N.S.W.E.R. is rallying its African American troops, heavily represented on the speakers’ platform at the huge demonstration in Washington, January 18, but far less visible in the ranks. In an “Open Letter to the Black Community,” A.N.S.W.E.R.’s Black contingent encouraged community organizations to transform Black History Month into a Black Protest for…

The anti-war coalition A.N.S.W.E.R. is rallying its African American troops, heavily represented on the speakers' platform at the huge demonstration in Washington, January 18, but far…

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The Mother Of All War Shows

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When it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle, an awesome pyrotechnic display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to shock and cow the entire planet. The effect, the planners fervently believe, will be comparable to that which occurred when cannon clashed with spears and arrows on the ever-expanding frontiers…

When it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle, an awesome pyrotechnic display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to shock…

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Rumsfeld: Dead Soldiers Count for Nothing

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If the U.S. were a healthy parliamentary democracy, Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks of January 7 would have brought down George Bush’s government, necessitating new elections. Instead, the man with the demonic grin continues as the drum major for new foreign wars, even as he belittles a previous war’s dead. Conscript soldiers of years past added “no…

If the U.S. were a healthy parliamentary democracy, Donald Rumsfeld's remarks of January 7 would have brought down George Bush's government, necessitating new elections. Instead, the…

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