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Some Want Jobs for Christmas

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By Julianne Malveaux – In the weeks since the “shellacking” of the November 2 election, there has been much talk that the economy will turn around and, indeed, is on the mend. The indicators are better, both pundits and experts have been saying. The recession is over, according to these indicators, and it is unlikely […]
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Black Republicans And The Color Line

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By Raynard Jackson – Once again race has reared its ugly head with a Republican elected official. But, this time in a more subtle way. Incoming Republican congressman, Tim Scott has decided not to join the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in January. While I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, I am viscerally embarrassed […]
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Atlanta News

Mayor Kasim Reed, Lisa Rayam, and Vandarray party with over 1500 senior citizens of Atlanta

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Atlanta, GA – Over 1500 Atlanta area senior citizens dressed in their Sunday Best enjoyed a little opera, gospel, square dancing, gifts and a good turkey dinner, during SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now’s (SCLC/WOMEN) 31st annual Senior’s Christmas Party last week at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The party got live […]
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Chuck Hobbs

Auburn’s Cameron Newton Saga—Reggie Bush Part II?

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By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – The NCAA’s ruling in the Cameron Newton fiasco strikes me as odd in two ways. The first is the fact that Newton, the Auburn quarterback who has sliced defenses on the ground and in the air in his first year since transferring from a junior college, has been declared eligible […]
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Raynard Jackson

Michael Vick—From Vick-tim to Vick-tory

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By Raynard Jackson – Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the media coverage of NFL quarterback Michael Vick—post incarceration? Last July I wrote a column titled, “Michael Is A Vick-tim.” I discussed Vick’s going to jail for nearly two years for killing a couple of dogs. He has served his […]
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H. Lewis Smith

The Power of Thought and How It Reforms Reality

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By H. Lewis Smith – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”(Genesis 1:3) “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry […]
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Charles "Chaz" Hobbs

AIDS – Transcending Time

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By Charles “Chaz” Hobbs – If one of age can remember back to the 1980’s you will remember the scores of news reports that caught our attention about the new, “Gay Plague,” that hit America’s homosexual community by storm. The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or commonly known as AIDS, was the penultimate disease that ravages one’s […]
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African American Politicians Under Siege

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Charles D. Ellison -Philadelphia Tribune — In 2010, African-American politicians find themselves under siege (New America Media). Black political power and influence appears strafed and demolished in less than two weeks time. Even President Barack Obama is not immune as he fends off assaults from both left and right, including a Washington Post column by […]
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Why Carville Won’t Apologize to Obama for his Balls Crack

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – Not surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable especially when it come to knocking President Obama Democratic strategist James Carville was petulant and defiant when asked whether he’d apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack. The dig was Carville’s supposedly play on an old joke when he cracked that Hillary Clinton should […]
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