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	A Letter to America: Why Must the Show Go On? By Mary Rizzo, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
It’s About Time By Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: Why Obama Must Fight to the Finish By Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Bob Wing BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentators
The Saints Have Spoken: San Martin de Obama Will Win By a Divine Landslide By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	The Status Of Women Of Color In The American Political System: 2008 By Suzanne Brooks, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Pan Africanist Press: Proudly Celebrating 400 Issues of Pambazuka News By Walter Turner BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Where’s Kenny Rogers When You Need Him?: The Big Boys Got Their Bailout, But the Elected Leadership and the Voters Meet at the Election Day Showdown By Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Have You Heard the Good News? Wesley E. Profit, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	McCain’s Deregulated Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Remembering John Coltrane By Anyabwile Love, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Underground Drug Dealing By Candice S. Cason, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Obama: An Historic Moment By Carl Pinkston, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	The Ethical Deficit in Journalism Today By Don Rojas, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
IslamoFascism or IslamoBritishism: The British Origins of Modern Violent Islamism By Nu'man Abd al-Wahid, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Race in America: Katrina Aftermath Still Roils Gretna - Town Cut Off Escape Route Out of New Orleans By Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune Correspondent BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Organizing the Community: Why the GOP TREMBLES at the very Idea - Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator	Bringing Sexy Back: Barack Obama & The "Triumph" of White-Collar Masculinity By Jewel Woods, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
A Trailer Park Tale: Three Years After Katrina By Deepa Fernandes BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Anti-war poem - Pray For Me, Father By Sherwood Ross, BlackCommentator.com Guest Poet
Hillary Clinton, White Greed, White Rage, and White Female Racism - Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator	Never Mind the Hurricane - Beware of N.O. Police! By Chris Stevenson, BlackCommentator Guest Commentator
The Politics Driving Mississippi’s ICE Raid By David Bacon, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Remarks: DNC Stop the War Protest - August 24, 2008 By Cynthia McKinney, Presidential Candidate BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Immigration Inspires Hope, Fear and Debate Among Convention Democrats By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	"So to bind each son..."? Recalling the Talented Tenth & Re-thinking ‘Brokedown’ Black Gender and Sex Politics By Dr. Jafari Sinclaire Allen, PhD BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
The Right to Bear Safety By The Reverend D. D. Prather, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	A History of Centrism: A Cautionary Tale for Obama By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Kenya & Zimbabwe: Challenges and Opportunities in the Path to Democracy By Briggs Bomba, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters: Cynthia McKinney Carries the Cross - Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
Obama’s Plan for Iraq By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	A Few Thoughts on Patriotism By Joe Navarro, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Ask Not What... By Cindy Sheehan, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Sketches of Our Culture: Apathetic, Going on Pathetic By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
Africa Advocacy & The Zimbabwe Factor By Netfa Freeman, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Wrestling with a Strange Reality: Barack Obama and the Impossibility of a Black V.P. Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
Where Black Power Meets Progressive Politics By Charles J. Evans	Black August 2008 By Kiilu Nyasha, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Black Orchid in the White House Garden: Assailing Michelle Obama By T. S. Aschenge, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Continuing Fight to Protect the Voting Rights Act By Ryan P. Haygood, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up By Paul Rockwell, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Two Fathers By Nicholas Powers, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
If The Opposite of Pro Is Con, Then The Opposite of Progress... By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Obama and McCain on Immigration: Life vs. Death By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
The Liberation Schools, The Children’s House, The Intercommunal Youth Institute And the Oakland Community School By Ericka Huggins, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, The BlackCommentator In Struggle Spotlight	Juneteenth: Free At Last? By Ryan Paul Haygood, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Resident Evil 5: A Travesty on All Counts Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator	Katrina Meets Kucinich By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator (Includes full text and Video of all 35 George W. Bush articles of impeachment presented by Congressperson Kucinich)
Rebel Without a Cause: The Movement to Reclaim and Radicalize Hip Hop By MK Stallings and Montague Simmons	Single-Payer Healthcare: A BlackCommentator.com Series Part 39 - Healthcare Future Shock: It’s Closer Than You Think By Donna Smith, American SiCKO, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Responsibility By Amy Branham, Gold Star Mom for Peace, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	The "Noose" Media: Strange Fruits, Bloody Leaves, and Swinging Bodies - Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
Whose War? Is it Yours? By Cindy Sheehan, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	We Will Not Die! - Ushairi By Anthony Gayle BlackCommentator.com Guest Poet
The Tragic Legacy of the "Two Firsts": Why Hillary Won't Talk About Gender the Way Barack Will Talk About Race By Jewel Woods, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	May 25: Celebration of An Aspiration By Netfa Freeman, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Idiot-in-Chief!! - King-of-Fools? By Playthell Benjamin, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	The Hillary Myth and the Good Reverend Wright? By John S. Phillips, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
A Dissent: No More "Race" Talk By Alex Walker, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Juan Crow in Georgia By Roberto Lovato, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Bubba in the Backyard: The Politics of Race and Gender in Campaign 2008 By T. S. Aschenge, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	The Virgin Maryam of Surah - Student Writers’ Corner By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
Sabotage, Division, or Sedition By Brother Bede, Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Weapons of Mass Distraction: Mind Control, Zombification and the Neutralizing of Black People - Student Writers’ Corner By Tolu Olorunda, BlackCommentator.com Student Guest Commentator
“Is That Your Child?”: Successful Strategies for Mothering Biracial Children By Marion Kilson, PhD and Florence Ladd, PhD, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentators	Women, Race and Economic Security By Shirley J. Wilcher
Born with a Skin Disease?! - A Mother’s Whitewash By David Myers	Hillary and McCain: The White Bloc That Must be Stopped By Eric Mann
Zimbabwe’s Elections: Who Are “The Real Revolutionaries”? By Dr. Keith Jennings, PhD Guest Commentator	Zimbabwe: More Than Complicity of Silence By Netfa Freeman
The New Affirmative Action: Implications in Education and the Workplace By Milton Hollar-Gregory	Confessions of a Mega-Church Member By Kandise Lucas, PhD
On Personal Responsibility and Social Justice By David Memnon	Economic Stimulus to Cultural Empowerment: The National Museum of African American History and Culture By Charles Blatcher, III
SEIU Officials Have a Blast By Ken Paff	Why We Should Support an Ex-Doofus By U-Savior Washington
The Empathic Power of Images: Civil Rights, Vietnam and Today By Gary Olson, PhD	A Liberating Hope By The Reverend D. D. Prather
Those Who Care About Baseball Should Protest the "Blacklisting" of Barry Bonds! By Mike Gimbel	Decades of Documented Health Care Disparities Have Not Brought About Policy Changes By Kathlyn Stone
Senators Could End the Iraq War This Spring By Sean Donahue and Nancy Lessin Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)	Prison Gang Drop-Outs Being Threatened...If They Refuse to Snitch By Harold Austin
Whirlpool's Divisive Development By Eartha Jane Melzer	Hillary is a Sorcerer, an Out-Sourcerer By Paul Rockwell
Response to Pat Buchanan’s Rant By Vincent G.Thomas	Energy Days at the University of Texas By Daniel N. White
My 60th Birthday: A Statement from Assata Shakur	Thinking About Birthdays: You're Two By David Swanson
The Senator, His Pastor and the Israel Lobby By Ali Abunimah	Post Racial Conflict: America to Enter Heaven Without Confessing Her Sins By Lloyd Wynn
'Damming the Flood' Powerful [Book Review] Welcome Examination of Haiti's Criminally Overlooked Recent History By Benjamin Terrall	Candidates’ Fear and Reporters’ Scripts: The DA Race in Austin, a Microcosm of the Bigger Races By Daniel N. White
Prodigal Petraeus By David Swanson	One Raid at a Time: How Immigrant Crackdowns Build the National Security State By Roberto Lovato
Obama’s Denial: The fear of a Black Messiah Part 2 of Barack and the "End" of Racism By Juan Santos	Building an Activist Movement to End the Occupation of Iraq and May Day: A Call To Action By David Swanson
The Time (Yet Again) Is Now By Nancy Harvin	Recession: The Federal Reserve Issuing Welfare Checks at Discount Window; Taxpayers Not Eligible Due to Moral Hazard By Lloyd Wynn
Open Letter to Hillary Clinton By Syreeta McFadden	Let's Get Our Heads Out of the Sand - Part II By Lloyd Wynn
The Big Mother By Nicholas Powers	The King, the Knave and the Knight By Philip A. Bassett, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
Let's Get Our Heads Out of the Sand By Lloyd Wynn, JD, BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator	Barack and the "End" of Racism By Juan Santos
Military Tribunals and You By Cindy Sheehan	I Wonder If My Vote Will Count? By The Reverend D. D. Prather
The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement By Roland Sheppard	A Black Man as President of the United States! What’s Going On? Why Barack Obama might become President! By Dr. George Wright, PhD
Iraq Occupation Worse Than Ever By David Swanson	Work a Day for Freedom! - A Short History of the Free South Africa Labor Committee By David Bacon
Undermining Bolivia By Benjamin Dangl	And the Oscar Goes to... By Cindy Sheehan
From Negro History Week to Pan-African Historical Context - Black History Month By Netfa Freeman	Beyond the Mama’s Chi-chi Theory: Latino Vote Lust Previews Growing National Sophistication By Roberto Lovato
Civil Rights Movement Gets Real - St. Louis Mayor Booed Off MLK Platform By Don Fitz and Zaki Baruti	Can Your Town Ban the Military from Recruiting Anyone Under 18? By David Swanson
The Relative State of the Union By The Reverend D. D. Prather	Everyone's an Expert on the Latino Vote, Except Latinos By Roberto Lovato
Hunger for Home; Darfur Refugees Live with Endless War By Nicholas Powers	The Former Mr. Willie Jones Meets Nkrumah The Nation of Islam and Pan-Africanism - Student Writers’ Corner By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz
In-Terror-gation, Cover-up and Distraction - Part 2 By Chris Stevenson	First-hand View of Army Integration By Dr. John Berteaux, PhD
Cover Story: Why Have We Become A Nation of Sheep? - Musings of A Movement Veteran By Dr. Carlos E. Russell, PhD	Strategic Usage of Arts Activism: AFRICOM Policy Review - Student Writers’ Corner By Chioma Oruh
A Brother Goes to China - Student Writers’ Corner By Marcus Gadson	Kucinich: I Am a Candidate of the Mainstream - These Other Candidates Are More Like Republicans By Jayson Whitehead
Why Diversity Matters Student Writers’ Corner By Rasheedah Phillips	Paying for the Wars' Wounded By Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.)
We've Got To Save Our Black Males At Black Colleges By Tom Joyner	Pakistan's Dictatorships and the United States By Dr. Stephen Zunes, PhD
Why Kucinich Should Concede Nothing By David Swanson	Rendition: The Disinformation Campaign A Film Review By Marc Norton
The Revenge of The "Good" Blacks: John Ridley, Eugene Robinson, Juan Williams By Thought Merchant	Reflections on Cairo: Blackness, Black Pride and the "Arab" part of the Muslim World - Student Writers’ Corner By Maryam Sharron Muhammad Shabazz
Nobel Al Gore? A Prime Time Hypocrite By Joshua Frank, Dissident Voice	Sexy Dimes/Sexist Tools: Whittling Down Black Feminist Consciousness - Student Writers’ Corner By Hananie Albert, Guest Student Commentator
Activism and Darfur Divestment: Solution or Diversion? By Kevin Funk and Steve Fake, Foreign Policy In Focus	US Aid Dependency: The Road To Ruin By Hicham Safieddine, Electronic Lebanon
Three Cheers for the NAACP By Dr. Ron Walters, PhD	Student Writers' Corner: People Need to Ignore the Stereotypes of Black Males By Ashley Bates, Guest Student Commentator
Jena Six - Another Lesson in the Role of Race and the School to Prison Pipeline By Ted Shaw and Damon Hewitt, NAACP Legal Defense Fund	The Problem Here and the Problem There Healthcare Here and in Rwanda By Dr. Josh Ruxin, PhD
Backwoods Court Ruling Overturned By Chris Stevenson	A New Day Begun - Jena’s Tentacles of Racism By The Rev. D. D. Prather and Ms. Denisha M. Delane
Palestinian Diaspora: With or Against Collaboration? By Laith Marouf	Despite Improving U.S. Current Account Deficits, Risks of Financial Crisis May Be Growing By Dr. Robert E. Scott, PhD
Zogby Poll: 51% of Americans Want Congress to Probe Bush/Cheney Regarding 9/11 Attacks; Over 30% Seek Immediate Impeachment 67% Also Fault 9/11 Commission for not Investigating Anomalous Collapse of World Trade Center 7 By Pollster John Zogby	Why Black Radio Continues to Abandon Its Own Community By U-Savior Washington
The Obama-Edwards Ticket By David Swanson	Labor Day Hypocrisy By Stephen Lendman
The Newark Schoolyard Killings And False Assumptions of Black on Black Crime By Ryan P. Haygood	"The Problem of the Color Line" By The Reverend Douglas Demetrius Prather
Jena Louisiana - The Struggle Sharpens By Li Onesto, Revolution Newspaper	Race is the Tripwire for the Progressive Movement:John Conyers and Impeachment By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
Report Card on Prejudice in America - New Zogby/GSN Survey By Pollster John Zogby	The Israeli Police State By Avigail Abarbanel, The Electronic Intifada
CNN's Lou Dobbs - The Minister of "Propaganda and Enlightenment" By James Opiko	Hurricane Katrina Will Be As Much A Defining Moment As 9/11 Terrorist Attacks By John Zogby
NYC Public Schools and the Criminalization of Students: What Kind of System Does This to Its Children? By Linda Flores	The Light at the End of the Gaza-Ramallah Tunnel By Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada
Juneteenth: Free At Last? By Ryan Paul Haygood	The Other Side of the Rainbow: Visiting A Friend Who Has AIDS By K. Danielle Edwards
The Franchise of Deception: Triple Ploy and the Lie of Competition By SaveAccess.org	Message To Black Dads: A New Father’s Day Tradition By Harold Lee Rush
Bush's Economy Is Poverty Stricken, Bleeding Jobs and Ready to Crash By Dan Merica	The South African Presidential Debate A Market Taliban Versus A Populist Taliban By Andile Mngxitama
A Patient's Right to "No" By Timothy R. Cagle	Denounce the LAPD Rampage on May 1st We Demand a Better World By Travis Morales, Revolution Newspaper
How the Imus Affair Shows Why We Should Jettison the Phrase ‘Political Correctness’ By Dr. Howard Brody, MD, PhD	Why Imus Had to Go... & What It Says About This Racist, Sexist System By Revolution Newspaper
Pat Robertson's Justice Department: The Undue Influence of Regent University By David A. Love	Racial Slur On Furniture Wrapping Stuns Toronto Family - Mother Had to Explain To Daughter, 7 Origin of Words "Nigger Brown" On Sofa Label By Jim Wilkes
"Compromised Justice" - The Duke University Lacrosse Team By Rev. Douglas Demetrius Prather	Are We Carrying Around the Baggage of Black Codes? By Michele Mitchell
To Be Black In America: An Unflinching Necessity By Larry Pinkney	The CorporaState Eating America By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Our Ideology Is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism - Our Goal Is the Emancipation of All Humanity Part 4 of 4 By Bob Avakian	The Call to Boycott the Beijing "Genocide Olympics": How the "Stop Darfur" Movement Aids the US Drive for Hegemony By George Wright
Mamdani the Darfur Genocide Denialist? By Andile Mngxitama	I Know a Fella By Arnie King
After the Revolution: Dealing with "Racial Divisions" - Part 3 of 4 By Bob Avakian	Bring Down Your Airfares or Get Out of Africa American and European Airlines are Bilking African Passengers By Jacques Sotero Agboton
Cover Story: Why Black Folk Should Care About the U.S. Attorney Controversy By Dr. G. Derek Musgrove, PhD	Neoliberal Policies of the '90s Have Worsened Rust Belt's Black Ghettos By Andrea Lynn
Statement of Protest Concerning the Unreasonable Bail Imposed by the San Francisco Court, re: The San Francisco 8 By Three Former-Panthers: Larry Pinkney, Eddie Williams, and Gerald Sanders	Why I Don’t Hate Asians By Dr. Eugene Stovall, PhD
How This System Has Betrayed Black People: Crucial Turning Points - Part 2 of 4 By Bob Avakian	Never ending Loans... By The Reverend D. D. Prather
FBI Hunting the Dead: Can John Bowman Ever Rest in Peace? by Soffiyah Elijah	American Democracy: A Legacy Of Hypocrisy And Deceit By Larry Pinkney
The Oppression of Black People And the Revolutionary Struggle To End All Oppression - Part 1 of 4 By Bob Avakian	Obama, Clinton and "Bozaunga" By Minister (Dr.) Gyasi A. Foluke
Polarized: Bi-Polar Disorder and the Ghosts That Haunt By K. Danielle Edwards	New Orleans Survivor Council Turns to Venezuela for Support By The New Orleans Survivor Council, Guest Commentator
Mass Deportations, Vigilantes, Government Supression: STOP the Fascist Assault on Immigrants!!	My Small Act of Civil Disobedience By Michael T. McPhearson
Political Apartheid in America By Jeff Milchen	About the Rape of Sabrine in Iraq By Yanar Mohammed
Cindy Sheehan, George Will, and Loving Your Enemies By David Swanson	Feeding Eighteen Thousand Families Each Month in One Neighborhood in New Orleans: The Right to Return Eighteen Months after Katrina By Bill Quigley
Black History Month in Britain - The African British Experience By Delroy Constantine-Simms	‘One Step at a Time’: An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Former President of Haiti By Peter Hallward
Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites Has Grown Larger By Dr. Melvin L. Oliver, PhD and Dr. Thomas Shapiro, PhD	Unjust and Undeserved By Rev. Douglas Demetrius Prather
Slavery On The New Plantation American Torture Chambers: A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails - Part 2 of 2 By Kiilu Nyasha	Barak Obama: Trojan Horse and A Great White Hope? By Larry Pinkney
Obama vs. Giuliani - America's Real Struggle By Chris Owens	Civil Rights Issues Are Never Simply Local: The DC Voting Rights Act Corrects an American Problem By Ilir Zherka
Voices of Moral Consciousness Black History Month Message By Imam Zaid Shakir	We’re Headed Towards Separate Americas! By William Hughes
100 Senators Quietly Vote: Majority Oppose Escalation Two things you can do to stop a war on Iran By David Swanson	The Blackness of Obama By Kimberly Jade Norwood, JD
Panther Arrests Evoke Disturbing Legacy of Torture By David A. Love	American Torture Chambers: A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails Part 1 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha
The Bills That Can End the War By David Swanson	Black NJ Organizes Against the War By Jon Levine
A Message from the members of African Americans for a Better Society (AAFABS) By Lyle G. Russworm	Reluctant Remembrances by K. Danielle Edwards
Aristocrat Aplomb vs Bourgeois Indiscretions: Superbowl XLI By H. Lewis Smith	Jonesing for a Hit of Man Fuel: Of Pigskin Pushers, Football (Fan)atics, and Blissful Blindness By Jason Miller
State Law Schools in Metro Areas Lead in Graduating Minority Lawyers, Study Shows: An Interview with Dean Lawrence R. Velvel, JD By Sherwood Ross	Why The N-Word Is Not Just Another Word By H. Lewis Smith
Africa Without African Americans By Ezrah Aharone	Force Won't Bring Peace to Somalia By Khadija O. Ali
If Beal Street Could Talk Remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform By David Swanson	Roots of Lation/Black Anger: Longtime Prejudices, Not Economic Rivalry, Fuel Tensions By Tanya K. Hernandez
1975 Redux By Daniel N. White	A Funny Phenomenon Among White Liberals and Progressives By Dr. L. Jean Daniels, PhD
Can Obama Become the Person Some of Us Envision? By Dr. L. Jean Daniels, PhD	Why Unions must support the Immigrant Rights Movement By Karega Hart
McKinney, Smith, Bush, and Impeachment By David Swanson	The Benedict Arnold List By H. Lewis Smith
Stopping the N Word Starts With Blacks By Jasmyne A. Cannick	The Bride Wore Black: The Shooting of Sean Bell and the Resurgence of American Racism By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
U.N. troops are not the answer Tragedy in Darfur: Unraveling the Real Causes By Monica Hill, Freedom Socialist Newspaper	Justice Journals: Michael "Kramer" Richards And the Infamous Racial "outburst" Apology not Accepted! By Thomas Palmer
Impeachment Proceedings By Cindy Sheehan	50 Shots & Michael Richards Racism Was The Vitriol Lurking Under The Surface By Molly Secours
Blaming Kramer by The Rev. Irene Monroe	The Corporate Looting of the Gulf Coast - Robin Hood in Reverse By Bill Quigley
Gay Marriage Is Not The Threat To Black America By Jasmyne A. Cannick	Education: An Afrikan World View by HAWK (J. D. Jackson)
Pollution of the Mind - The Willie Lynch Syndrome by H. Lewis Smith	George W. Bush v. The US Constitution By Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)
Bush as Brat: Pretensions to Empire by David Swanson	700 unionists ring bells to knock out Santorum - Angry steelworkers drive Bush brother into subway closet by Denise Winebrenner Edwards
Governmental Derelicts - Moral Meltdown By Lawrence R. Velvel Dean of Massachusetts School of Law	Hidden Costs of the Iraqi War Exposed by William Hughes
CBC Foundation blows another great opportunity by Roland S. Martin	A Review of Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" by Najee' E. Muhammad, EdD
Beginning To See the Light by Junious Ricardo Stanton	What's Wrong With Calling Bush A Devil? by Jeff Cohen
Who Killed Jimmie Lee Jackson? by Benjamin Greenberg	Working to End Taxation Without Representation in the Nation’s Capital by Ilir Zherka
Regarding Blacks and Mexicans by John A Imani	What Do You Stand For: Revolution or Rhetoric? by Carey "Geechie Man" Bryant
Iraq and 9/11: The Truth Is Out By Jason Leopold	Fidel Castro’s Health: Why the African Diaspora should support revolutionary Cuba by James Early, Board Member, TransAfrica Forum
Written in the Blood - My genealogical quest to untangle ancestry and heritage by Chris Rabb	The LA Mayor’s School Reform Plan: Finally, The Black Community’s Hand Is Forced... But To Do What? by Anthony Asadullah Samad
Follow the Prison Money Trail By Silja J.A. Talvi	Meritocracy - used, misused and abused chaos By Daniel Pryzbyla
As Our Neighborhoods Turn, Can We Turn With Them? By Christopher D. Cathcart	The Katrina Aftermath One Year: What are the Lessons Learnt? by Anthony Asadullah Samad
Where Were You When They Took Your Rights Away? Camp Democracy Begins September 5th, 2006 by David Swanson	The Dumbing-Down of Black America by Black Media by James Clingman Jr.
Mexico’s Elections System Beat US, Hands Down by Tom Grayman	Were Black ‘Terrorists’ Entrapped? by Wendell P. Simpson
Re-Liberating Zimbabwe by Dwight Kirk	Negro Subversion: Then and Now. by Clinton L. Cox
Lessons in Avoiding Mass Ignorance: Black People and Cell Phones by Kennedy Johnson	Don't Tread on Me! - An Open Letter to Senate Republican Leadership by Walter Fields
Yet Another Hard Road To Glory: Examining Shani Davis Through Black Female Perspectives by Rhone Fraser	Stop Snitchin’ On Yourself by Andreas Hale
Health care is no joke for the poor by Byron Hobbs	"Poverty is no excuse" is bankrupt by Daniel Pryzbyla
Kevin Phillips’American Theocracy: A Study of Late Stage US Capitalism by Anthony Monteiro	Reflections On The Life And Death Of A Manchild In The Promised Land by Paul Moore
Ruminations on a Wounding and a Blinding by Harold Bridgeman	Mute Man Talking: Poetry Under Surveillance - Foreword and Interview by Yahsmin M.B. BoBo
Black Deaths in 2005: Is Anybody Watching? by Sheryl Smikle, PhD	Post-Colonial Blacks by Mandisi Majavu
An Open Letter to the Class of 2006 by Paul Moore	Being ‘The Covenant’ Watchdog: Does Tavis Smiley Need Watching? by Rhone Fraser
Hating Barry Bonds by Bob Wing	Exploitation Without Borders by Eisha Mason
Unprecedented tension within the modern world - An Open Letter from a Black Minister by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr.	African-Americans, Economic Well-Being, and Immigration by Chaka A. K. Uzondu
Back from New Orleans by Nzingha Tyehemba	Racism Is Alive and Well in the Academe by Abdul Karim Bangura
Who’s Pimpin’ Who? The Hip-Hop Generation’s Need to Rename (Reclaim) Itself by Marjorie Fields Harris, Esq. with Reverend Darren Ferguson	Drug Leniency for the Privileged Draconian Sentences for Blacks and Latinos by Anthony Papa
A Rage of Disenfranchisement By Ryan Paul Haygood	Malcolm and Martin: The Struggle Continues by Jason Bailey
Public Education 101: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs To Know by Susan Alyn	Et tu Michael Eric Dyson? Fraternizing with the Devil by Dr. Jared A. Ball, PhD
Revisiting King’s ‘White Moderate’ by Rhone Fraser	Investigating the Crash Scene by Derik Smith
Nike: Borrowing From The Dope Man’s Playbook by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr.	Chitlin’ Jobs - Black Folks Get Diminishing Scraps by Meizhu Lui
Why Is Tavis Smiling? And Why Are We Watching? by Leutisha Stills	Notes on Political Education by Jonathan Scott
Letter to Shani Davis: Show ‘Em Your South Side by Roger Brown	Turning Racism Upside Down To See It Rightside Up by Dr. Edward Rhymes
Congress Betrays Both the People and the Constitution by Pat Gowens	Affirmative Action in Brazil - The Day of the Lambs by Italo Ramos
Coretta Scott King Goes Home by Donald H. Smith, PhD	The West's Debt to Africa - An Argument for Reparations by Courtenay Barnett
Black Hip Hop History by Akweli Parker	The GOP’s Black Voter Suppression Strategy by Dr. G. Derek Musgrove
Turning Democracy Right Side Up by Ryan Paul Haygood	Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Expansive Dream by The Rev. Irene Monroe
Stalling the Dream: Racial Gaps in the Car Culture by Meizhu Lui	A Canadian Ban on U.S. Rapper? 50 Cent Solutions to One Dollar Problems by Mesfin Aman
The Demise of Public Schooling by Patricia A. Young, PhD	The ‘Promised Land’ - Why We're Still Waiting by Anthony Asadullah Samad
A New Iraq or a New Orleans? by James Clingman	Condoleezza Rice: A Death Trip by John Maxwell
Ode to Richard Pryor by Dr. Edward Rhymes	The Harlem Project: The Weapon That Ended the War by Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil.
Sharks, Elephants, Abandoned Puppies, and a Tiger of a Total Man: Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams by Terry Lynn Howcott	Which is the Black Oriented Media? by Alex Walker
Storm Warnings for America’s Public Schools by Paul A. Moore	Voter Photo ID - Legislators Should Look Before They Leap by Alaina C. Beverly
‘Interview with Katrina’ by Rhone Fraser	Letter from a Black Man in Canada: Rosa Parks v. Condoleezza Rice by Norman (Otis) Richmond
Judge Constance Baker Motley: ‘A Significant Life’ by Donita Judge	Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Crisis of Black Leadership Revisited by Francis A. Kornegay
An Open Letter to the Mayor of New Orleans: Flip the Local Economic Development Script by Audrey McFarlane	Blacks Rated Lower Than Animals by Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil.
A Moment of Silence for Rosa Parks A Poem by Rodney Coates	Player Hating: Setting Rigid Controls for ‘Nothing But Africans’ by Terry Lynn Howcott
Morpheus Evolution by Morpheus	The Great Reward by Brooks Berndt
Canada’s Crimes Against Haiti by Norman (Otis) Richmond	The Confederates of Memphis (and Negroes who have more important things to do) by D'Army Bailey
Voting Rights and Katrina by Ryan Paul Haygood	Haiti, Imperialism, and the Treachery of Liberals by Shirley Pate
How Black Conservatives Hurt Their Cause by James Thindwa	The Millions More March: Black America’s ‘Last Chance,’ or Just The Next One... by Anthony Asadullah Samad
Displaced or a Refugee? The Legal Difference by Tamara K. Nopper	After the Deluge: How Do Blacks Get to the Table? by Earl Picard, Ph.D
'Castaways’ Above the Fold by Bernestine Singley	An Evolution of Lies by Harold M. Clemens
The Slave Master and the Devil by Brooks Berndt	Framing Katrina: Dominant Media and Damage Control in the Wake of a Not-so Natural Disaster by Paul Street
In Arkansas, Grassroots Activists to the Rescue of Katrina Evacuees by Seth Sandronsky	A Personal Commentary on the Hurricane Katrina Aftermath by Faye Kennedy
Minority Inclusion is Diversity Diversion at the GOP: A View from the Black Republican Side by Wamara Mwine	A Pitiable Response to Katrina: Citizens Swept Aside by Government by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson
New Orleans Unmasks " Apartheid, American Style" by Jason Miller	Wade in the Water: Reflections on Race, Class and Katrina by Alton B. Pollard, III
Brighter Prospects? Ms. Bush and White America’s Rhetoric of Limited Alternatives by Jacqueline Bacon	Ready for Revolution: A message for Barbara Bush by Toronto Jones
Katrina: Contemporary Screams of Agony by Terry Lynn Howcott	The Political Wrath of Hurricane Katrina by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans by Jonathan Scott	Blacks of Native American Ancestry Fight for Recognition by Damario Solomon Simmons
Unbearable Crime on the Mississippi by Thulani Davis	America’s Pretenses Washed Away by Scottie Lowe
Back To School: A Letter to Teachers by Roger Brown	Understanding Pickaninnies and Improving the Race by Troy Peters
Mystery of The Negro Conservative by Charles Cinque Fulwood	Slavery, Reparations, and the Uses (and Abuses) of History by Jacqueline Bacon
Relishing Freedom in the Face of Injustice by Kirsten Levingston and Alan Jenkins	Black Congressional Leadership Drives Demand for Downing Street Minutes Investigation by David Swanson
Tragedy or Farce? White Supremacy is Incompatible with Civilization by Jonathan Scott	‘Strange Fruit’ in Iraq - Journalist Who Probed Torture and Executions is Murdered by Lizz Brown
Knowing The Difference Between A Conscious Black, A Negro and A Ni**a: Our Progress Depends On It by Anthony Asadullah Samad	White Mexican Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Again by Abdul Karim Bangura
Haitian Elections: No Voters, No Problem by Sue Ashdown and Olivia Burlingame Goumbri	Never Too Late to End Terror by Ron Scott
Pining for the Pistons by Dave Zirin	Slavery in the Third Millennium, Part III - Human Bondage Revisited: the Return of the Chain Gang by Randall G. Shelden
Harold Ford, Social Security, and Telling Lies by Charles Cinque Fulwood	Clarence Thomas: Searching for Death While Burying the Truth by Greg Moses
Who Appointed Tony Blair as Africa’s Messiah? by Mark P. Fancher	Slavery in the Third Millennium, Part II - Prisons and Convict Leasing Help Perpetuate Slavery by Randall G. Shelden
If White America had a Bill Cosby by Jonathan Scott	The Lords of Dark Town Rescue Us All by Martin de Porres
Slavery in the Third Millennium, Part I - Prisons and Slavery: Seeking Cheap Labor and Control of African-Americans by Randall G. Shelden	The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown v. Board of Education by Ryan Paul Haygood
The Legacy of the Bandung by Norman (Otis) Richmond	Black Gay Pride: Does Green Know the Difference Between Black and White? By Jasmyne Cannick
The Color of Politics and the Idiocy of American Racism by Rodney Foxworth	Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down: The Permanence of U.S. Mediocrity by Jonathan Scott
Song of a Never-Was South Will Disney re-release a twisted film? by Hollis Henry	BET Nightly News Cancelled - No Big Loss by Michael K. Fauntroy, Ph.D.
Conquest & Desire: A letter from West Africa by Devanne Brookins	How New York City is Failing Black Kids by Zahraa Abante-Hayes
An African in Canada by Charles Kinyua Ruthari	The passing of a legend: Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales by Jorge Mariscal
MINUSTAH, US Proxy: You can’t contain Haiti by Shirley Pate	A Riddle For Black Conservatives: What Would Happen If Terri Was Toya? by Rev. Reynard Blake, Jr.
Lawyers Against the War are After Bush by Norman (Otis) Richmond	Credit, Conspicuous Consumption and Crisis in Black America by David Crockett, PhD
Debt Slavery: What the Bankruptcy Bill Could Do to You by David Swanson	Beware Republicans Bearing Gifts by Troy Peters
Redefining The Black Struggle: Where Is, And Just Who Is On, The Frontline? by Anthony Asadullah Samad	Slices of Black Life: Racial Profiling at JCPenney by Chris Stevenson
PBS Says American Slavery was Natural: Eradicating Bacon’s Rebellion from Popular Memory by Jonathan Scott	The Harsh but Doable Economics of the American City by Marcellus Andrews
Hatian Police Open Fire on Nonviolent March for Democracy by Bill Quigley	Political Rape Rampant in Haiti by Lyn Duff
The Full Blown “Oprah Effect”: Reflections on Color, Class, and New Age Racism by Paul Street	Malcolm’s Contribution to Black Voting Rights by Ryan Paul Haygood
The Silence of the Blonds John Maxwell	The Invisible Asterisk: Reflections of What Might Have Been by Dr. Edward Rhymes
An Asterisk for Major League Baseball by Don Santina	No Bush Mandate from Women of Color by Linda Burnham
Sam Cooke Still Resonates by Norman (Otis) Richmond	Election Reaffirms ‘The South Won The Civil War’ by Minister Dr. Gyasi A. Foluke
Wanted: House Negroes. Will Train. by John Reynolds III	No Ray of Hope by Norman (Otis) Richmond
Berlin Anti-Colonial Conference: 120 Years of African Resistance by James Culver Jr.	The 2004 Presidential Election: Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy by Dr. Alvin Wyman Walker
No Exit in Black: Trapped by the Economy and Politics by Marcellus Andrews	The African Christ by Omar Swartz
We’ve Seen This ‘B-Movie’ Before: The New Black Tokenism and American Empire by Dennis Childs	Art at War: Revolutionary Art Against Cultural Imperialism by Ewuare Osayande
Brownballed? Desegregation Without Real Integration is an Invitation for Dysfunction by Edward Rhymes Ph.D	The Color of Justice by Ryan Paul Haygood
Now Can the "Tiger" Hating Stop? by Anthony Asadullah Samad	Message To Alan Keyes: Put On A Cowboy Hat! by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr.
Neocolonialism and the Cap Anamur Refugees by James Culver, Jr.	Mumia and the NAACP: Finally, a Call for Justice by Bill Bachmann
The Color of Integration by Ryan Paul Haygood	Dismantling The ‘Bling’ - Another Look at Hip-Hop by Reynard Blake, Jr.
Rape, Racism and Victim Advocacy by Lisa M. Calderón, M.L.S., J.D.	A Mexican American General in the Service of Empire by Jorge Mariscal
The Miller Beating and LAPD's Culture Of Abuse by Anthony Asadullah Samad	If I Get Shot By The Police by Adam Bahner
Juneteenth: Free At Last? by Ryan Paul Haygood	Lethal Weapons: Guns, Gangs, Politicians & Preachers by Harold Bell
The Acholi of Uganda Face Starvation and Genocide by Peter Okema Otika	South African 10th: A Decade of Democracy - A New Generation of Struggle by Andre Banks and Devanne Brookins
A Different Global Vision by Cynthia McKinney	Dr. Rice Playing in the Key of C by James Culver, Jr.
What have our weapons done to help the Iraqis? by Maddi Bee	A Black British View: ‘Colorblind discrimination’ - the new racism? by Clare Xanthos
From Schoolhouse to Jailhouse - Doing Hard Time in Public Schools by Annette Fuentes	Report from an Urban War Zone: Can the Altars of Violence become Memorials to Victories? by Daphne Muse
Let Haiti Hear Us! by Daphne Muse	Is Building a Burger Manufacturing a Product? by Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC)
Race, Racism and the Law by Vernellia R. Randall	Washington's Hand Against Democracy and for Extra-Constitutional Regime Change in Haiti by Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Condoleezza Rice and the Politics of Personal Power by Lloyd Cata	Sex, Drugs, & Cash: The Hypocrisy Of The National Football League And The Media by Reynard Blake, Jr.
"But He’s a Chicken!" Affirmative Action, George W. Bush and Why White Males Love Him by Reynard N. Blake	African Americans Crucial to Democratic Victory by Donna Brazile
EEOC 'Diversity in Law Firms' Report: A Heap of Stones by Abdul Karim Bangura	To Hell with the British Commonwealth by Mark P. Fancher
Paramour Rights and Reparations Issues By C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D.	The Conning of Black America by Dedrick Muhammad
Pretty Soon We’ll All Be Green by Donna Jo Warren with Jonathan David Farley, D.Phil.	The Land Question in America: The Issue That Nobody Wants to Confront by Mark P. Fancher
How a Neighborhood Defeated the U.S. Army: People Power Rolls Back Environmental Racism by Mary Johnson	Terror, Imperialism & the Meaning of Faith by Ahmed M.I. Egal
O.J. REVISITED Kobe Bryant, Marv Albert & Latrell Sprewell - Race, Athletes and Public Perception by Ellen Rosner	Message to the Programming Pimps Who Hired Limbaugh at ESPN by Reynard Blake, Jr.
Ghettos are Not a Game Making Money off the Misery of Others by Tim Wise	Journalists Agree: Media Coverage of Africa is Horrible African and African American media plan annual forum by Malik Russell
1930s Movement Planted Seeds of Civil Rights by Bill Fletcher, Jr.	John Kerry: Fence Sitting on the War and Race by Ron Walters
Apartheid Still Matters: Framing an African-American Internationalism by Peter Hardie	Black Immigrants are Prime Targets for Deportation by Tamara Kil Ja Kim Nopper
Condoleezza Rice and the Birmingham Bombing Victims by Margaret Kimberley	One Bush Too Many in Africa by Kweli Nzito, Ph.D.
Affirmative Action as a Tool of Imperialist Expansion and Aggression by Mark P. Fancher	The New York Times’ Racist Lies about Africa by Milton Allimadi
The "Enronization" of America by Ahmed M.I. Egal	Republicans Go to Bat for Predatory Lenders by Maude Hurd, National President of ACORN
Right Hook at the Bell! Bell Hooks’ Black male-bashing by Joseph Anderson	The Weapons of Mass Destruction Hoax by Dwight Welch
Dad's Diploma: Overcoming Injustice by Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC)	3 Guest Commentators 3 Faces of Shock, Awe and Death 1 - Jimmy Mack, When Are You Comin' Back? - The real price of war - By Jorge Mariscal 2 - Colin Powell: A hawk with smooth talons - By Paul Rockwell 3 - Nos Morituri Te Salutamus: Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing - Submitted by Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush: Reflections on the Functions of Mass Panic By Tim Wise	…AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST: Shunned DC Demands Full Voting Rights, First Primary By Sean Tenner
"Shrub" Bush's Pathological Focus On Saddam Hussein by Alvin Wyman Walker, PhD, PD, PC	Bush's Ugly America by John Stanton
IS WAR INEVITABLE? By Dr. David Graham Du Bois	A Chicano Looks at the Trent Lott Affair by Jorge Mariscal
Harvard - The Strange Career of a Troublesome Institution by Shelton Amstrod	AIDS - Discrimination is Deadly by Salih Booker
Trail of Heritage and Tears:Black Indians to meet in Oklahoma to claim their rights By Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt	The Sniper & the Nation of Islam By D.H. Muhammad, Historical Research Department, Nation of Islam
Harvard Professor Lambasts THE CRISIS Editor Dr. Martin Kilson says magazine bolsters NAACP foe	Land Struggles and Democracy in Zimbabwe by Dr. Chris Lowe
IRAQ, WAR & Color Racism: By Dr. David Graham Du Bois	A Jewish Peace Activist on Baraka’s Poem: Urban Legends by Rachael Kamel
How Sister McKinney Lost and what we can learn from it by Bruce A. Dixon	Black Children Still Victimized by "Savage Inequalities": Public education amid racism and isolation by Elena Rutherford
Zimbabwe's Mugabe and White Farmers: by Dr. A. Chika Onyeani	Misreading the Zimbabwe Crisis by Bill Derman and John Metzler
Peace and Justice Forces Rally to McKinney By Frances M. Beal	DC's Measure 62: A Green Light for Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation by Opio Lumumba Sokoni, J.D.
Did the Green Party Betray Black America by Dr. Jonathan David Farley	A Law That Gives Racists Something to Fear by Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Fogg
Linguistic Profiling by Patrice D. Johnson	How to Spot a Black Trojan Horse A Letter from Harvard by Dr. Martin Kilson

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