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  President Barack Obama must sell a complex idea to a Congress that prides itself on simplicity.   This Congress, namely the House Republicans, were elected on the premise that massive budget cuts are essential for this country’s economic survival. This line of thinking argues that these kind of program cuts will certainly cause hardship [...]

Glen Ford worked as a Network Broadcast Journalist in Washington DC and created in 1977 along with Peter Gamble, America’s Black Forum which was the first nationally syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America’s Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations — a feat no other black news entity [...]

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Glen Ford worked as a network broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C., and created in 1977, along with Peter Gamble, America’s Black Forum, which was the first nationally-syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America’s Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations, a feat no other black news entity had achieved [...]

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Lawrence Davidson says, “Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid.  When Israel assigns rights according to religion they call it the only democracy in the Middle East.” Lawrence Davidson is a professor at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His academic work is centered [...]

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Suppose Barack Obama is “A Magic Negro,” as some of his detractors saw and quickly ridiculed so that “thinking” people would not look into the possibility.  Suppose we all have the possibility of being magical, depending on how much of our whole selves we can get to download from outer space or inner space or [...]

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I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally.  Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants.  The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around 3:00 p.m. For me, the [...]

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By any objective measure Barack Obama has been the most engaged and effective president on American Indian issues since at least since Richard Nixon. You could even make the case that Obama is better than Nixon because there has been so much successful legislation and Executive Branch action in less than two years. A quick [...]

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In the last few weeks much discussion regarding a unique matter involving race has surfaced within the African-American community. Such is the case, as President Barack Obama’s appearance on the daytime talk show, “The View”, in which he classified African Americans as a “mongrel people” has provoked feelings of displeasure among some members of the [...]

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President Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech spoke of a country stuck in “a racial stalemate”: stuck in that place “for years”.  Yet, in 2010 we are still cemented there.  In “Shirley Sherrod: ‘Where are we headed?”, a July 22, 2010 interview conducted by PostPartisian’s Jonathan Capehart, Sherrod says why. She thinks the President [...]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s trite to say, “everything is connected.” It’s a phrase that comes up in the context of family, the environment, or perhaps, philosophy. When the subject is reservation violence, however, that same notion could be rewritten as a blunt question: Docs or cops? Cops are getting most of the attention after the [...]

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