From Frederick Douglass to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for more than a century, the dominant political perspective within the Black Freedom Movement was “integrationism.” This political approach emphasized the deep commitment and...
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10 January 2002
There are many ways to measure the destructive impact of structural racism on the African-American community. Perhaps the most important effects are on our health and physical well being. The National Medical Association of Washington D....
09 January 2002
Conspiracy is going mainstream. On the morning of Jan. 8, Paula
Zahn of CNN went into histrionic wide-eyed mode as she parleyed with Richard
Butler, former head of the UN inspection team in Iraq, latter part of the
wipe-out-Saddam lobby...
04 January 2002
First the tumult of war, now the fruits of peace. From
Afghanistan comes bracing news about the new era of tolerance, now that the
Taliban have, at least for the time being, slunk off the stage of history.
Shortly before the turn of...
28 December 2001
Christmas morning found me walking with Jasper the Wonderdog up
a street called Slalom, approximately 6,500 feet above sea level in the
Sierra, on the outskirts of the town of Truckee, which lies athwart
Interstate 80, not far from Lake...
19 December 2001
The fall of Enron sounds the death knell for one of the great
rackets of the last decade: Green Seals of Approval, whereby some outfit
like the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Environmental Defense Fund
would issue testimonials...
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