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My Response to Rush Limbaugh's Rage

Dave Zirin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Dave Zirin

Yesterday I was referred to on air as "scum" by Rush Limbaugh. I was called out for challenging his efforts to own an NFL team, saying that Limbaugh's history of racial bombast should count against him.

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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2009 Gary Roosevelt High School Commencement Address

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Robert D. Patterson

I really wanted to help them understand that despite the positive changes in the current political landscape, they will need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash.

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Touring Harlem, Lost and Found

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.10.2009 | Style

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Michael Henry Adams

Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?

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Malcolm and Barack

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Malcolm X, Birthday, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Barack Obama, Obama Election Day, Martin Luther King, American Muslims, Muslim, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

Malcolm X grew up in a time of segregation, police brutality, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws. He knew it would take the ballot or the bullet to bring about true change.

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Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style

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Michael Henry Adams

Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...

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No More Heroes

Gabe Gonzalez | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan War, Congress, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Heroes, Iraq War, Football, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, President Obama, National Service, National Service Act, Malcolm X, John Wayne, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
Gabe Gonzalez

Were we stand right now is with a President that has laid out a bold vision. But that cannot become real if we, those that chose him, are silent.

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Boomer Nostalgia: Can We Trust Our Past?

Jim Selman | Posted 04.25.2009 | Living

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Jim Selman

I am generally not big on trips down memory lane, but there's a nice retrospective of the 60s I came across that was kind of fun. It seems like a long...

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Brotherly Words To Obama...

Martin Lewis | Posted 03.08.2009 | Living

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Martin Lewis

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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The NY Daily News' Stanley Crouch Fails to Understand the Legacy of Malcolm X

Russell Simmons | Posted 01.03.2009 | Entertainment

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Russell Simmons

Rappers, in the spirit of Malcolm X, point out contradictions. Both in their words and cultural dress codes, hip-hop defies the rigidity of people like Stanley Crouch.

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Jim Brown on Barack Obama, Racism, Muhammad Ali, Hugh Hefner, Football, and Acting

Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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Graham Bensinger

The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.

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He's the President, Stupid

Beau Friedlander | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, House Negro, Military Industrial Complex, Clinton, Centrist-Left, George W. Bush, Hawk, Obama, Ted Kaczynski, Barack Obama, Center-Left, Uncle Tom, Anti-War, Field Negro, Dwight Eisenhower, Clintonista, Bill Ayers, Malcolm X, Somalia, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Ralph Nader, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.

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Obama and Malcolm X: Far From Opposites

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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Casey Gane-McCalla

Many people may see Malcolm X and Barack Obama as opposites of each other in the sphere of black political figure, but Malcolm's own family has come out publicly for Obama.

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