Now, it's the turn of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman to be flattered by the same
moist-eyed press corps that's been hailing the stultifying Republican
convention in Philadelphia as a masterpiece of political stagecraft. Gore is
being...
02 August 2000
It's "Reach Out" time. It happens every four years. Someone gets up in
front of the Republicans and reminds the white people filling 95 percent of
the convention hall that the party has to reach out. Who better than Colin
Powell? He told...
01 August 2000
There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of...
01 August 2000
What are the economic costs for American society of the vast expansion of our prison-industrial complex? According to criminal justice researcher David Barlow at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, between 1980 and 2000, the combined...
29 July 2000
Bobbie is the 29 year old brother of Paula Dunn, a lovely and talented
singer of contemporary Christian music. I recently heard her tell a woeful story of how Bobbie was incarcerated recently with rapists, murderers, and other violent...
29 July 2000
“The past is prologue.”
“Those who are ignorant of their history are doomed to repeat it.”
These are profound statements. When it comes to the history of Black folks in America these statements merely scratch the surface. As a...
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