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Get the Warmongers Out

I have previously written about the dire need for progressives like union members, anti-war activists, environmentalists, women’s rightists, Green Party members, etc. to re-join the Democratic Party to rescue it. The American people are sick and tired of war. Even prime warmonger John McCain was heckled at his own town hall meeting while he was trying to drum up support for attacking Syria. Our war profiteers have thrived, while our wars have left Iraq, Afghanistan and Liby

As a writer, author & musician, I truly enjoy creativity in music, art and clothing. However as a mother, I frown when I see artists change their behavior to appear “cool”, “trendy”, or sell more of their products. This is what I believe happened with Miley Cyrus at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Miley, who started her career as a ‘good girl’, starring in wholesome movies and on the Disney Channel as Hannah Montana, decides she wants to change her image. I get that! She wants to stretch hersel

A statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be unveiled on September 21 at the spot where thousands of Americans from all walks of life symbolically surrendered their liberty to demand Mr Mandela's release from prison and the freedom of millions of South Africans from the bonds of apartheid. The 9-foot statue by Cape Town sculptor Jean Doyle will stand outside South Africa's newly renovated embassy on Massachusetts Ave.  The figure is modelled from photographs of the South Af

• PHILADELPHIA TO HOST 19TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LOCKS CONFERENCE & NATURAL HAIR, WHOLISTIC HEALTH, AND BEAUTY EXPO ON OCTOBER 5-6, 2013
• This Year's Theme "Wake Up, Rise Up: Keeping It Real Naturally" aims to remove the curtain of racism

Discussion of solutions, survival, and celebration of African and Aboriginal Indigenous heritage are just some of what will be happening at the 19th Annual International Locks Conference: Natural Hair, Wholistic Health, and Beauty Expo coming October 5 and 6, 2013

By Raynard Jackson, 8/27/13 ~

  Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its Chairman, Reince Priebus hosted a great 50^th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington.  It was truly wonderful to see the best of what America stands for.  In attendance were Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, males and females.  In other words, it was America.

As I sat there and listened to the various speakers during the program; it dawned on me jus

• Critical Thoughts Publishing Release New Book "Destroy the Perceptions: Liberate from the Residue of Slavery in a Changing Society"
• Critical Thoughts Publishing releases the first in the Blacknesia™ series… written to address societal changes in the wake of the shifting landscape in America and the impact on Black people, in particular, Black men.

"Destroy the Perceptions," a non-fiction book provides insight into the contemporary Black male experience, by posing questions, as well as critiqui

Last week a piece circulated the internet written by a young woman about the three months she spent in India. She'd travelled there as part of the University of Chicago Indian Civilizations Program. That in itself isn't the part that made the story viral – it was her description of the sexual harassment and physical abuse she suffered at the hands of Indian men that got everyone's attention.

The young lady in question recounted frightening tales of having her breasts and crotch clawed at by total

“Menace’ must be confronted but calls first for congressional vote
by Chinta Strausberg

In a ten-minute speech Saturday starting at 12:50 p.m. Chicago time, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden emerged from the Rose Garden announcing that the U.S. is ready for a military strike against Syria but in the spirit of democracy not before congress takes a vote on this politically hot issue.

“Ten-days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in t

I am working the Ariana-Leilani case: Ariana-Leilani has been suffering for five years from untreated Severe Chronic Neutropenia (SCN). SCN is a rare potentially fatal low immunity condition (like AIDS) that can lead to her death in as little as 18 hours from a common infection.   The experts believe that, based on the tests done to date, her severe chronic neutropenia is caused by drugs.  However, she has yet to receive any testing for drugs in her system in the five years she has suffered from

NYPD says Mosques are terrorism havens

1) Barack Obama stepped to the mic and spoke of the importance of non-violence … for oppressed people. When any representative of the U.S. ruling class preaches non-violence, they mean non-violence for those who might get in the way of their empire. Obama was referring to people who had suffered under Jim Crow segregation and lynch-mob terror. This from the commander-in-chief of the global Amerikkkan empire, who has presided over more than 280 drone missile strikes, maintains a torture chamber p

Today August 28, 2013 is the 50 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a Dear Speech”. Nobody can deny the concrete progress of African Americans and other people of color, but the terrible legacy of over three hundred years of slavery, nearly one hundred years of separate but equal treatment of African Americans, and nearly sixty years of some progress laced with subtle racism and continued inequities regarding education, access to credit, and the criminal justice system epitomize