The power of music is one of the great unknowns in the human saga. For reasons we don't quite understand (yet) its vibrations can lift us to great heights, drop us down into deep depression, liberate us, make us joyous, help us grieve,...
30 July 2012
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
by Eugene Robinson
As a professor of African American history, I often remind my students that the black community is not monolithic, nor is there any one black experience....
by Eugene Robinson
As a professor of African American history, I often remind my students that the black community is not monolithic, nor is there any one black experience....
30 July 2012
The new Jim Crow: Massive disenfranchisement returns
As we approach 2012, a massive machine designed to deprive millions of Americans of their vote has been activated. Given its ability to keep primarily young, poor,...
As we approach 2012, a massive machine designed to deprive millions of Americans of their vote has been activated. Given its ability to keep primarily young, poor,...
29 July 2012
3,000 already disenfranchised, with 3,000 more in immediate danger next week in Tennessee; more on the way in multiple US jurisdictions this November.
Shelby County (TN) is currently enduring yet another botched election --...
Shelby County (TN) is currently enduring yet another botched election --...
28 July 2012
The lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki belong always before us. The agony of those two cities must remain our dark beacon.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki wasn’t so much about targets as about audiences. We – or rather, the very highest reaches...
Hiroshima/Nagasaki wasn’t so much about targets as about audiences. We – or rather, the very highest reaches...
24 July 2012
The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease.
Four major factors make it possible: the continued existence of the Electoral College, the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of...
Four major factors make it possible: the continued existence of the Electoral College, the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of...
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