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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 15 March 2006

Forgive African DebtMore than 60 percent of Africans live on less than one U.S. dollar every day.…

Details: Written by The Rev. Jesse Jackson; Published: 15 March 2006

Rainbow/ PUSH

Hurricane Katrina's survivors are about to be brutalized once more. They withstood the havoc…

Details: Written by Margaret Kimberley; Published: 15 March 2006

Freedom Rider

In the recent winter Olympics, American Julia Mancuso won a skiing gold medal in the women's…

Details: Written by Marian Wright Edelman; Published: 15 March 2006

Child Watch

From Tuskegee's Booker T. Washington to Morehouse's Benjamin E. Mays, Black college…

about-Hurricane-Katrina

Details: Written by Mark Morial; Published: 08 March 2006

To Be Equal

When Hurricane Katrina broke the levees in New Orleans, it did more than reveal the unimaginable…

Details: Written by Margaret Kimberley; Published: 08 March 2006

Freedom Rider

Democrats and Republicans both know how to appeal to the great mass of ignorant Americans. Bigotry is always a winner for politicians. It keeps them from having to do their jobs and aids in covering their wrongdoing.

Details: Written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Published: 08 March 2006

The Last Word

Crash deservedly won the Academy Award for best picture because it forced Blacks — as well as Whites — to honestly confront their stereotypes. The film sets the course right from the start when it went squarely toward racial correctness.

Details: Written by Marian Wright Edelman; Published: 08 March 2006

Child Watch

People often ask me where the next generation of leaders will come from. I tell them I know they will be young men and women like Westenley Alcenat.

Details: Written by Joseph C. Phillips; Published: 08 March 2006

Voice of Reason

I lured my sons into the garage recently to help me look for some long-lost document with the…

Details: Written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Published: 01 March 2006

The Last Word

At a recent raucous meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Marc Klugman, head of Correctional Services for the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, said "Everything that's going on in our streets is coming into our jails."

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