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Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin’

Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people and offers only exhortations from the sidelines

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Hanging Hate

Backlash against the Jena Six case sparks an epidemic of public nooses

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Harold Washington Remembered

Washington's candidacy forged political unity among Chicago's notoriously fractious black community and helped bring the city's feuding Latino groups (including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) together

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Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

Cosby's critics excoriated him for delivering his rant from an elitist ivory tower without offering solutions, arguing that the black poor are the helpless victims of white supremacy and institutional racism

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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era--the world still perceives us as "refugees"--permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

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Jena and the Post-Civil Rights Fallacy

Around the country, black males face a criminal justice system that incarcerates them more than eight times the rate of whites

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A Mother’s March For Justice

Jena Six mother Tina Jones talks about clearing the reputation of her son Bryant Purvis

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The Counterproductive War on Gangs

The conclusion of the report, "Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies," persuasively argues that punitive policies of policing that specifically target gangs increase rather than decrease gang violence

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The Crafting of Obama

When Barack Obama launched his presidential bid, he decided to build a staircase, not merely a platform, thereby differing with most African-American presidential aspirants

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A Dream Deferred

Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

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The Squandering of Obama

Political masterminds have transformed the candidate from a political visionary into an electoral product like every other presidential aspirant

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Stories of Survival

NO! explores rape within the African-American community and fights society's instinct to focus on the racism outside while turning a deaf ear to gender violence within

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Blaming Hip-Hop for Imus

Instead of blaming rappers for vulgarity, social resources should be channeled to combat the conditions that create those lyrics

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The United States of Amnesia

In America, historians are rarely heard from and seldom honored. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an exception to this… more

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Slavery and the State of Denial

On Feb. 24, Virginia's state assembly voted unanimously to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.… more

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Obamas Base: Broader Than Black

Black leaders, be wary. If you eschew the Obama phenomenon, you may have to pay a price. On… more

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Making Black Voices Heard

A new study examines minority youth opinion

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Mardi Gras Flame

Fear and fesitivity in New Orleans

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A Politically Correct Lexicon

Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyone

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Baracks Black Dilemma

The day after the national celebration of King Day, Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was forming… more

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Dread Beats

The dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson

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White Progressives Don’t Get It

Rinku Sen argues that progressives who write policy without racial justice goals fail because they can risk deepening inequalities while only superficially being universal.

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Danger: A Policy With No Brains

Susan J. Douglas argues that "The Michicagn Civil Rights Initiative" (MCRI), which bans the use of affirmative action by all public institutions in the state, shows we have fogotten much further there is to go before feminism and civil rights movements achieve justice.

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Bioneers Bridge the Color Gap

Bioneers, or Biological Pioneers, are activists committed to green consciousness, racial reconciliation, organic, healthy sustainable foods and social justice coalitions.

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The CBC and Speaker Pelosi

Progressive members of the Congresssional Black Caucus poised to chair committees, meanwhile "Blue Dog" and "New" Democrats pulling the party to the center.

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Farrakhan Steps Back

Farrakhan's failing health causes the Nation of Islam to look to the future.

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Make Democrats Earn Black Votes

The Democratic Party has been taking Black votes for granted for decades.

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The Crazy Kazakh Correspondent

How Borat reveals American bigotry and foreign policy double standards.

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Year of the Black Candidate

Many Black candidates sought and won office in the 2006 takeover by the Democrats.

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Is Diversity Enough?

Walter Benn Michaels asks us to consider the harm done when we worry about identity and forget about inequality

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Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

News reporting on the aftermath of Katrina blames the victims rather than helps them.

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White Blight

Arguments for "race neutrality" are used to curtail Civil Rights advances.

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Corporal Punishments Hidden Costs

Corporal punishment of children linked to later interpersonal violence.

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Bigger Than Hip Hop

A look at the state of black political leadership

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After the Deluge

Big Easy organizers confront racial tensions

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The Reparations Bandwagon

Hurricane Katrina opens eyes to the need for reparations to repair the race/class divide.

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Police Torture and the Need for Repair

Special prosecutors Edward Egan and Robert Boyle report that Chicago Police led by Commander Jon Burge likely tortured dozens.

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A Terrifying Distraction

Government entrapment leads to the unlawful arrest of seven Hatian men falsely accused of terrorist actvity.

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The Persecution of the American Taliban?

John Walker Lindh was misunderstood and mislabeled as an "American Taliban."

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Immigrations Echoes

Immigration debate awash in Xenophobia.

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