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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

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We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil, Now Confront Slavery Evil

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

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The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.

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A Queen for Today!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.22.2009 | Style

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Still reigning, still smiling, after 56 years! The Glorious Queen Elizabeth Rose Who has worked harder or better, and so long, at a tiresomely t...

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Did John Hope Franklin Want $100 Trillion for Blacks?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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Dr. John Hope Franklin, the wildly accomplished historian who documented Blacks' place in the great American story, firmly believed in reparations.

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media

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The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Time Running Out For Filipino Veterans

Jonah Lalas | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home

Many thousands of Filipinos answered Roosevelt's call to join the U.S. forces fighting Japan in the Philippines, but had been denied the benefits they were promised until last month.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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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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