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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 02 August 2006

Letters to the Editor

What is our responsibility in Israel's aggression against the people of Gaza and Lebanon?…

Details: Written by The Rev. Jesse Jackson; Published: 02 August 2006

To this day, Sen. Joe Lieberman still doesn't get it. The 18-year incumbent Democratic from…

Details: Written by George E. Curry of the Curry Report; Published: 02 August 2006

Until Sunday, when Israeli bombers leveled a three-story building in the tiny Lebanese village of…

Details: Written by Rev John H. Thomas of the United Church of Christ.; Published: 02 August 2006

Editor's note: The following is an open letter to Christians in Palestine.Dear sisters and…

about-naacp

Details: Written by George E. Curry of the Curry Report; Published: 26 July 2006

President George W. Bush — or his speechwriters — understands the indignity of slavery…

Details: Written by Joseph C. Phillips; Published: 26 July 2006

I have a rather iconic picture of the American family ideal. Some might even call it old fashioned.…

about-democratic-party

Details: Written by The Rev. Jesse Jackson; Published: 26 July 2006

Imagine going to the dentist with an aching tooth, and going through the pain of having it…

Details: Written by Marian Wright Edelman; Published: 26 July 2006

I recently sat down with some extraordinary stories shared with me by Jamila Larson, a former…

Details: Written by Bill Fletcher Jr; Published: 26 July 2006

It has been impossible for me to sit back and watch the scenes of carnage displayed every night on…

Details: Written by Phill Wilson of the Black Aids Institute; Published: 19 July 2006

I didn't notice the insult at first. During the week that President George W. Bush and his…

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