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This Week in Blackness: Episode #12
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Racism after Obama’s victory
article from The Week, November 5, 2008 One election won’t “solve the problem of race in America,” said Matthew Syed in the London Times online, because “bigotry and hatred” are no longer the main issue. The real problem is that, even after the gains of the civil rights movement, black Americans have yet to achieve […]
The Most Important Presidential Election Ever. Again. No, Really!
The Most Important Presidential Election Ever. Really. by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Every four years we hear that the current presidential election is undoubtedly the most important one in our lifetimes, perhaps the most significant in all the long history of the republic. We heard it (and some of us said it) four years […]
THE INFLUENCE OF MARCUS GARVEY PT. 1
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F*** Joe the Plumber: Economic Equality and The Myth of “Free Markets”
by Tre B. dangerousNEGRO.com Now I’m no expert economist, so like Levar Burton used to say on Reading Rainbow, “You don’t have to take my word for it…” However, there are some commentators in the media, who claim to be experts, telling outright lies. Maybe it’s intentional or maybe they’re just ignorant, but let me […]
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War Against Black America pt 1 of 5
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Report: Global Warming Disproportionately Affects African Americans, Low-Income Communities
by Kimberley D. Mok, Montreal, Canada on 10.22.08 Image: EJCC website Though it may have struck you already, a recent report corroborates what some advocates and the Hurricane Katrina debacle are making painfully clear: that people of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change and related disasters. Titled A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global […]
Black Men Say Rebel Flag Flies for Freedom
For an hour, the Confederate battle flag flew over the former site of the Eight Flags Display on U.S. 90. Dressed in Confederate gray, a black man named Anthony Hervey marched with the banner clutched in his hands. His brother, Harry, accompanied him, wearing jeans and a Robert E. Lee T-shirt. Hervey’s devotion to the […]
Barack & Curtis: Manhood, Power, & Respect
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Racism Without Racists
Racism Without Racists By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: October 4, 2008 One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists.On the contrary, the evidence is that Senator Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed “racism without racists.” […]
Book Review: The Green Economy by Van Jones
by Kimberley D. Mok, Montreal, Canada on 10. 7.08 Van Jones is one busy man. Based in Oakland, CA, the civil rights and environmental activist has been working tirelessly for the last decade and a half – first as the co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, then Color of Change – two […]
Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama
By RON FOURNIER and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent,” responsible for their own troubles. […]
dangerousNEGRO Public Speaker: Demetrius Walker
In partnership with Great Black Speakers, we bring to you our first official dangerousNEGRO speaker, Demetrius Walker. Visit dwalkerspeaking.com for booking Demetrius Darnell Walker is a native New Yorker. Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx, Demetrius represents not only the merits of higher education, but street knowledge as well. Growing up in New […]
dangerousNEGRO Mixtape
dangerousNegro: Smart is the New Gangsta (Sat Aug 16, 2008 07:20 PM CT) What is a dangerousNegro? As defined on dangerousNegro.com, a dangerousNegro is a Danger to America’s racial paradigm, a Danger to low expectations, a Danger to degenerate black mentalities, and is Dangerously contagious to the miseducated individual. In short, dangerousNegro is a clothing […]
Welsing on For The People-Part1A: Understanding Chess in Black & White
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Obama asked, “What about the Black community?”
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