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Excellent article by Michael W. Waters My only son turned five years old last week. He is a handsome, articulate, energetic, intelligent, fun-loving and gentle young man. He is the apple of my eye! There’s only one problem: he is Black. And as his father, I am challenged to do for him what generations of [...]

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Op-ed submission by Project 21 While I’ve supported a far less radical and more free market version of black nation-building than the New Black Panther Party, I realize that, for many reasons, nation formation in the traditional sense is a difficult and unlikely prospect today.   At the same time, I am intrigued by cybernetic governance [...]

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1. Psycho-Slavery: Black Boys, White Female Teachers & the Rise of A.D.H.D.   2. How China has created a new slave empire in Africa 3. Afro-Futurism: The Marketing of Revolution

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Interetsing article in the Huffington Post by educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger: José Luis Vilson. Joel Klein’s recent resignation had an interesting alignment to a report that showed that black males in the United States aren’t doing well in this country. You’ve read the statistics. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient [...]

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Meet John Barr; Ypsilanti Township, Mich racist. I met John this past Tuesday (Nov 2) when I went to my polling location to vote. Backstory: Over the last few months, I had been debating how I would vote for Mich governor. I was or torn between voting for a republican whom I felt was competent [...]

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Hello Afrospear family, I am Jessica Ann Mitchell, the facilitator of The Black Love Speak Column (BlackLoveSpeak.com). A few months ago I started another website, BlackBloggerNetwork.com. The purpose of the site is to support the initiatives of Black Bloggers. In an effort to encourage healthy dialogue about issues important to black communities, I am launching [...]

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My Brother Carey at Carry Me Home Blog wrote a poignant piece chronicling his family history and comparing it to all of our black history.  In it he asks us to be careful how we treat our history and not to despise it, even if it looks difficult in some places.  Obama belongs to us, and [...]

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Excellent article at The Black Love Speak Column. Although I am sharing it here, I encourage comments to be made also at the original article. If you live in Atlanta, Macon, or Augusta GA, you may have come across one of these signs. Black & Unwanted billboards are springing up in various areas of Georgia. The Radiance [...]

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