Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago’s poor black neighborhoods By Steve Bogira Article Reprint Chicago’s homicide rate has drawn headlines this year, locally and nationally, and not without reason. Through July,
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Black Folks aint Got No Money for Bootstraps: The Black Capitalist Dead End
The African American economic condition deteriorates by the year, but that doesn’t stop the ‘bootstrappers’ from talking trash. “The bootstraps mythology -sometimes under the shorthand, ‘Do for Self’ – implicitly or explicitly urges Black people
Read moreMexican Generals Linked to Drug Gangs Lose Appeal
www.reuters.com Article Reprint A Mexican court said on Wednesday that two army generals, one retired and one still serving, should remain in jail and face trial in one of the highest-profile cases linking the military
Read moreSlave Master Mentality at Sun-Times
Editors Note: After reading the column from Neil Steinberg in the Chicago Sun-Times, I was set to write a response, but after reading this column from Richard B. Muhammad, I decided to print this instead.
Read moreHere We Go Again
No logical explanation on why US troops are still fighting in Afghanistan Robert Scheer Article Submission It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic president, and thanks to the political opportunism of the current
Read moreHubert Harrison: Key Link in the Two Great Trends of the Black Liberation Movement
This article originally appeared in New Politics. “The Life and Times of Hubert Harrison: A Forgotten Synthesis of African-American Socialism and Black Nationalism,” Review of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 by Jeffrey
Read moreInterview with Eldridge Cleaver
He is the Former Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party and represented the most militant wing of the Black Panther Party, advocating the overthrow of the United States Government and the establishment of
Read moreAmerica the Illiterate
Statistics indicate that a lot of Americans don’t read at all By: Chris Hedges Article Reprint We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope
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