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Jeremiah Wright: Warrior and Trickster A ChickenBones Editorial and Discussion |
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Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada Incinerating Pretty Girls, Atmospheric Radiation, Our Callousness Americans Remember & Speak Out |
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Nuking, Westerns, & White Manliness An Exchange between Rudolph Lewis and Ralph Garlin Clingan |
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Minstrelsy and White Expectations Reviewing WP Columnist Eugene Robinson Editorial by Rudolph Lewis |
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Remembering the Spirit of the Sixties: A Symposium—Panelists: Dr. Samuel Hay, Lafayette College; Dr. M. Njeri Jackson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Dr. Judson L. Jeffries, Ohio State University, Dr. Charles Jones, Georgia State University. Monday, November 12, 2007. Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 4:00-6:00 p.m. For further information, please contact Dr. Floyd W. Hayes, III, at fwhayes3@jhu.edu. |
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It is Darfur again and the misery goes on By E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Ghanadot |
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A Case for Condoleezza Rice for President Editorial by Rudolph Lewis / Twice as Good: Condolezza Rice and Her Path to Power (Review) |
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Relevance of Achebe's Things Fall Apart A Discussion by Dr. Rose Ure Mezu & Rudolph Lewis |
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Vulture Capitalism—In the African country of Zambia, over 70 percent of people live in poverty. The average wage is just over a dollar a day, one in five people are infected with HIV/AIDS and life expectancy is merely 37.7 years. Yet, in the midst of qualifying for debt cancellation by G-8 nations, the Donegal Corporation, owned by American businessman Michael Sheehan, bought Zambian debt from Romania. In April, British courts awarded Donegal 15 million dollars, almost five times the value Donegal paid for the debt.The morally bankrupt actions of vulture funds render the commitments to debt relief made by the U.S. and other wealthy nations meaningless. U.S. taxpayer money, pledged to provided relief and assistance through debt relief, will fall into the hands of these greedy corporations. At the upcoming G-8 Summit President Bush should call for a commitment by world leaders to address debt relief and vulture funds. The U.S. Treasury should follow the lead of U.K. Chancellor Gordon Brown and limit the awards vulture funds can claim for these debts. Congress must examine this practice and its impact on our overall foreign policy interests. The international community must employ effective means to protect countries like Zambia who have fallen prey to these vulture funds, including implementing fair and transparent international mechanisms to resolve these matters. Danny Glover and Nicole Lee. Poverty Scavengers |
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Commentary by Rudolph Lewis & Peggy Brooks-Bertram Asa G. Hilliard III Obituary The Exhilarating Generosity of Asa Hilliard Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cushite Empire, Book II |
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The Importance of Civil Disobedience in Post-Katrina New Orleans By Elizabeth Cook Katrina New Orleans Flood Index |
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Staying Alive for the New Struggle An Editorial by Rudolph Lewis The State of Black Journalism A Case for Condoleezza Rice for President |
Telling the Truth about Africa Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis |
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Killens, the Black Man’s Burden, and the Jena 6 An Editorial by Rudolph Lewis
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Daisy Bates, 1914-1999: What It Means to Be Negro / The Death of My Mother / The Death of Daddy / Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
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Obama and the Hunger for a Black President By Rudolph Lewis |
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Cynthia McKinney Confronts Corporate Media Malice in Court By Glen Ford, BAR executive editor |
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Dr. Nathan Hare's Foreword for Marvin X's How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy: A Pan African 12 Step Model Marvin X --The Pain of Violence and Death in the Hood / How to Stop the Killing in the Pan-Africa Hood |
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The media problem with black lesbians By Rev. Irene Monroe |
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Fidel Castro May Day Speech 2007 It Is Imperative to Immediately Have an Energy Revolution |
Haiti on the UN Occupationon the 92nd anniversaryof the first US occupation of Haiti (1915- 1934) |
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Racial Integration Has Run Its Course—The resilience of civil-rights groups is praiseworthy, but future litigation, even if successful, is not going to alter the fact that most poor children, regardless of race, are attending schools that are not meeting their educational needs. Their dire condition, and that of the schools they attend, is not solely the result of an insensitive Supreme Court majority quite ready to manipulate precedent to stifle well-intended racial-diversity plans. The plain fact is that a great many white Americans, including many with otherwise liberal views on race, do not want their offspring attending schools with more than a token number of black and Latino children. Whatever their status, they do not wish to be burdened by efforts to correct the results of racial discrimination that they do not believe they caused. Their opposition may not be as violent or as vast as it was during the early years after the Brown decision, but it is widespread, deeply felt, and if history is any indication not likely to change any time soon. Derrick Bell. Desegregations Demise. The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (In Memory of My friend, Chauncey Bailey) By Dr. M (aka Marvin X) What’s Going On? by Kam Williams The Assassination of Chauncey Bailey by Jean Damu |
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Death of the American Republic—In years to come, historians may look back on U.S. press coverage of George W. Bush’s presidency and wonder why there was not a single front-page story announcing one of the most monumental events of mankind’s modern era – the death of the American Republic and the elimination of the “unalienable rights” pledged to “posterity” by the Founders. The historians will, of course, find stories about elements of this extraordinary event—Bush’s denial of habeas corpus rights to a fair trial, his secret prisons, his tolerance of torture, his violation of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches, his “signing statements” overriding laws, the erosion of constitutional checks and balances. But the historians will scroll through front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and every other major newspaper – as well as scan the national network news and the 24-hour cable channels – and find not a single story connecting the dots, explaining the larger picture: the end of a remarkable democratic experiment which started in 1776 and which was phased out sometime in the early 21st century. Robert Parry, Bush's Mafia Whacks the Republic (consortiumnews.com)
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for Breaking the Law? Some Think It's Time!
Time To Impeach Bush by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon |
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Telling the Truth about Africa Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis |
John Maxwell Table: From the Frying Pan into the Red Mud / My Grandfather’s Bones / The World Exhales / A Week as Long as the Titanic |
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Condoleezza Rice as President The Best Thing for America & the Survival of the Planet? The Importance of the Presidency with Respect to the Negro |
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Conversations with Kind Friends / Katrina New Orleans Flood Index / New Orleans Shelters |
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Sudanese Moving North to Israel—Excessively harsh socio-economic conditions and racist attitudes in Egypt seem to be the main reason why Sudanese refugees want to relocate to Israel. Of the Sudanese refugees now resident in Israel 71 per cent report verbal and physical abuse as the main reason for their fleeing Egypt. Some 86 per cent had refugee status with the UNHCR in Egypt, though those crossing the border spent an average of six months in detention upon arrival in Israel. Others are subject to indefinite detention. Sudan is considered an enemy state by the Israelis and Sudanese refugees are viewed as suspect. This is especially the case with Muslim Sudanese from Darfur and northern Sudan. Southern Sudanese are culturally more attuned to Israeli culture, and Israelis warm up to them. "The Israelis are suspicious of us because we are Muslim," complained a Sudanese originally from Darfur. . . . There are an estimated 400,000 Sudanese refugees in Kenya, 400,000 in Chad and 100,000 in Egypt. Yet on the UN human development index, Israel stands at 23, Egypt at 111 and Kenya at 152. Chad is among the world's poorest and least developed nations and Sudan is not far behind. –Gamal Nkrumah. Sudanese refugees fleeing Egypt for Israel |
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In Nigeria, Yar’Adua Reigns, Obasanjo Rules By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye |
No Tears for Brown v Board of Education—In 1990, after months of interviews with Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had been the lead lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund on the Brown case, I sat in his Supreme Court chambers with a final question. Almost 40 years later, was he satisfied with the outcome of the decision? Outside the courthouse, the failing Washington school system was hypersegregated, with more than 90 percent of its students black and Latino. Schools in the surrounding suburbs, meanwhile, were mostly white and producing some of the top students in the nation. Had Mr. Marshall, the lawyer, made a mistake by insisting on racial integration instead of improvement in the quality of schools for black children? His response was that seating black children next to white children in school had never been the point. It had been necessary only because all-white school boards were generously financing schools for white children while leaving black students in overcrowded, decrepit buildings with hand-me-down books and underpaid teachers. He had wanted black children to have the right to attend white schools as a point of leverage over the biased spending patterns of the segregationists who ran schools — both in the 17 states where racially separate schools were required by law and in other states where they were a matter of culture.— Juan Williams Don’t Mourn Brown v. Board of Education Education & History |
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White Privilege Shapes the U.S. / Myths of Low-Wage Workers / Ujamaa / New Deal / Raw Deal / Stalling the Dream by Meizhu Lui |
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The
Venezuela Connection: Beating the Gas-Gouging Blues |
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Kalamu ya Salaam Reports: Post-Katrina New Orleans I Love You It's Hard I'm Crazy Cracking Up Stephanie Take Deep Breaths Spirits in the Dark I Am Ashamed of Myself Breath of Life The Storyteller of New Orleans by Elizabeth D. / LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE: The Neo-Griot New Orleans Project Reconstruction of a Poet: The Call: Ideology or Poetry? My Life Is the Blues Producing & Recording Poetry A Black Poetics African-American Language
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Black Policy Professionals in the Managerial Age By Floyd W. Hayes, III |
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Black American males inhabit a universe in which joblessness is frequently the norm: 'Seventy-two percent jobless!' said Senator Charles Schumer, chairman of Congress's Joint Economic Committee, which held a hearing last week on joblessness among black men. 'This compares to 29 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts.' Senator Schumer described the problem of black male unemployment as 'profound, persistent and perplexing.' Jobless rates at such sky-high levels don't just destroy lives, they destroy entire communities. They breed all manner of antisocial behavior, including violent crime. One of the main reasons there are so few black marriages is that there are so many black men who are financially incapable of supporting a family. 'These numbers should generate a sense of national alarm,' said Senator Schumer. . . . Robert Carmona, president of Strive, an organization that helps build job skills, told Senator Schumer's committee, 'What we've seen over the last several years is a deliberate disinvestment in programs that do work.' Bob Herbert. The Danger Zone March 15, 2007 |
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By Uche Nworah |
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Nuking, Westerns, & White Manliness An Exchange between Rudolph Lewis and Ralph Garlin Clingan |
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Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.-- School Daze A Depravity of Logic A Naïve Political Treatise A Report on a Gathering at Red Emma's Urban Legends |
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Do You Know This Man? Is He Africa's Saddam Hussein? |
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Sonia On My Mind By Askia Muhammad / Obama and the Hunger for a Black President by Rudolph Lewis
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Telling
the Truth about Africa
Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis |
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William Rhoden’s Forty Million Dollar Slaves and the Call for Black Athletic Leadership By William Broussard |
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Lies, Truth and Unwaged Housework A Response to The Lie That Unraveled the World
By Peter Taylor |
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Nobody ever chose to be a slave by Thabo Mbeki & a Note from Ezili Dantò |
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No Oil, No Reconstruction—On Thursday, May 24, the US Congress voted to continue the war in Iraq. The members called it "supporting the troops." I call it stealing Iraq's oil - the second largest reserves in the world. The "benchmark," or goal, the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is privatization of Iraq's oil. Now they have Congress blackmailing the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi people: no privatization of Iraqi oil, no reconstruction funds. This threat could not be clearer. If the Iraqi Parliament refuses to pass the privatization legislation, Congress will withhold US reconstruction funds that were promised to the Iraqis to rebuild what the United States has destroyed there. Ann Wright What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies |
| Ghanaian Writers: Rev. Addo: Ourselves in Africa The Dignity of Vision For Kwame Nkrumah Ghana - A Year Ago The African Queen African American Spiritualism // Ablorh-Odjidja files: This WeekGhana The Joseph Principle Enacted A Critique of the book Out of America Disadvantaged by race, set back by language -- The story peddled by imperial apologists is a poisonous fairytale // Jean Y.T. Lukaz: Dark Tourism in Ghana |
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Dreams Buried in Freedom’s Coffin An Editorial by Rudolph Lewis
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In Defence of Humanity—we take a stand against the unrestrained and undemocratic power, which the mainstream media wield with total impunity, as they try to impose their viewpoints and values. These oligopolies only serve to defend the political and economic interests of shareholders, financiers and advertisers. . . . In the words of President Hugo Chávez, we are not fighting against freedom of the press, rather we are re-establishing it. In Defence of Humanity, as a network of networks, underscores the right to information and communication as a fundamental human right. To that end, the illegitimacy of the current system within which media are only serving the powerful must be emphasized. We point out that this has resulted in an incredible, anti-democratic media concentration overwhelmingly controlled by financial capital. The media allies and enemies of the people need to be identified. We denounce all intellectual mercenaries who have sold out their ideas to transnational corporations. We also denounce communication groups and institutions that in the name of a distorted idea of the freedom of expression are serving economic and imperialist structures, such as Reporters Without Borders and the Inter-American Press Association. The Declaration of Cochabamba - In Defence of Humanity—5th Conference of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity—May 22nd & 23rd, 2007 in Cochabamba, Bolivia latinlasnet |
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst |
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Skip Gates and the Talented Fifth The Doublespeak of Academic Equivocation Editorial by Rudolph Lewis |
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No Brass Check JournalistsBy Studs Terkel |
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Lies, Truth and Unwaged Housework By Peter Taylor / A Response to The Lie That Unraveled the World |
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Selling AmeriKKKan Imperialism By Junious Ricardo Stanton |
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Carol Moseley Braun's Presidential Campaign / An HBO Special --UnChained Memories 1930s WPA Slave Narrative |
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