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The Million Man March 15 Years Later
By Jon Jeter First, the day: It was a brilliant autumn morning 15 years ago Oct. 16 when nearly a million black men assembled peacefully and purposefully on the National Mall in Washington D.C., to talk, show our mutual support and urge one another on. An almost cloudless sky, I remember, was bluer than reality;…
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D.C.: Less Black, More Green
Hey, uh, we didn’t get our 40 acres and a mule But we did get you, CC, heh, yeah —From the song “Chocolate City” (1975) by Parliament Two local disc jockeys first anointed Washington, D.C., “Chocolate City” in the early 1970s. White flight to the suburbs after the 1968 riots had left the nation’s capital…
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The Top 5 Labor Victories for Black and Brown Folks
The workers’ movement that pressured FDR to create some of the New Deal’s most radical programs seemed to come out of nowhere. Big business’ crackdown on unions in the period following World War I reduced the number of unionized workers from 5 million to fewer than 3 million. Similarly, anti-union campaigns over the last 30…
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Slavery 2010
“I freed a thousand slaves,” Harriet Tubman famously said. “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” With a black man occupying the White House, and the nation grappling with a wrenching recession, and celebrating the contributions of African Americans to this nation’s history, this seems an opportune moment…
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How Barack Obama Is Paving the Way for a Palin Presidency
It does not take a pollster, partisan or psychic to see a harbinger of things to come in Massachusetts voters’ choice of a Republican to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. If Barack Obama’s next three years in the White House are anything like his first, he will surely be a one-term president. And for black…
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