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Would Colin Powell Be Better Off If He Kept His Mouth Shut?
Sometimes it is almost pitiful to observe how a politician will humiliate himself in order to stay in favor with those of greater power. Former Secretary...

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Gang Violence in Iraq
In putting Stanley Tookie Williams to death for the alleged shotgun killings of four people, society could be considered to have erred. Fir...

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Troubleshooting Troublesome Traffic
We love our cars. Devoted so entirely to our automobiles are we, that taking a bus or train is simply out of the question. We are willing to...

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The Answer To Poverty is Not More Babies
T.D. Jakes is a multimillionaire businessman, a Bishop, an African-American and a regular contributor to television shows on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Black Entertainment Tel...

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K-K-Katrina
Much is being made of the disproportionate suffering being done by impoverished African-Americans in the wake of hurricane Katrina. I am going to make a ...

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More Young African Americans are Joining the GOP
The amount of minorities who own businesses grew in recent years at a rate of two or more times the national average according to a United St...

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Priorities
Related Story - Rocky Mountain News Denver hasn’t hired an African-American firefighter in five years. This is seen as a problem by many–...

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Sunday in the Park with a Racist
A park in Memphis, Tennessee named for Confederate “hero” General Nathan Bedford Forrest and featuring an equestrian statue of him at its c...

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Your Voting Rights are Not Actually in Danger
My newspaper today featured an article titled “Jackson, D.C. leaders push to reauthorize Voting Rights Act”. Intrigued, not realizi...

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The debate over race in the media
I read an article in Newsweek yesterday about the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film which pointed out that all of the golden-tick...

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