From Black Agenda Report: You Can’t Stop the Violence in Ghetto Streets Without Stopping the Violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Elsewhere. By managing editor Bruce A. Dixon “For more than a generation, the standard stance among America’s black political class was to demand an end to militarism, empire, and war at the same time they [...]

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Today’s children grow up not properly knowing what role their fathers are supposed to play in their lives. Some call it evolution. Some call it modernity. Some even call it reality. None of these descriptors are further from the truth. Fatherhood today is a meaningless word in the minds of many a child; and an [...]

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In Cape Town, South Africa for the 2006 Homeless World Cup, Sarah Angwech, a Ugandan student and soccer player finally tells me my proper name…

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To know one’s surprise: Mehserle convicted of involuntary manslaughter “A jury found former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle guilty Thursday of involuntary manslaughter, concluding that he did not intend to kill train rider Oscar Grant when he shot him in the back on New Year’s Day 2009 but acted so recklessly that he showed a [...]

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the cemetery is the richest place on earth because billions of brilliant unfulfilled dreams are buried there. If you’re anything like me or the billions buried, the problem is not having a dream. The problem is being strong enough to fulfill them.

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“Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, [...]

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Brother Asa, allow me to launch right into it: You said: “I don’t base my intellectual or spiritual beliefs solely on European or “westernized” intellectualism.” What is European or westernized intellectualism and how is it showing up in this conversation? That is an extremely vague, yet loaded charge. What is it and where is the [...]

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The commenter below made a comment on the post, “Is God Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?” that needs highlighting: “Furqan I think that the very root of the problem being analysed is the very history of the religion itself! What the world knows and calls “Christianity” has very little to do with the historical personage [...]

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