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Brother West on Obama Ahead of the State of the Union

Brother Cornel West shows that Glenn Beck isn’t the only one that can wield a chalk board in this latest criticism of President Barack Obama. Unlike the idiotic television/ radio host, the preeminent black scholar offers critical, intellectual, respectful and valid critiques. Asking the penetrating question, “How deep is your love for poor and working [...]

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“War is Peace?”

“The instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace.” ~ President Barack Obama’s remarks upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize (coincidentally on International Human Rights Day)

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Subversive Historian – 04/24/09

The Armenian Genocide Back in the day on April 24th, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government strategically arrested more 200 Armenian intellectual leaders in Constantinople. This mass detention of influential journalists, political leaders, and artists among others was followed by another wave of arrests of hundreds more. Noted as the “tripwire” event that set off the [...]

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Mumia on John Hope Franklin

More than a week ago, the great Afican-American historian John Hope Franklin passed away. A man of great scholarship and of great accomplishments, Franklin not only recorded the past struggles and triumphs of his people but participated in the history of now making possible the changes that historians of the future will pen. President Barack [...]

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John Hope Franklin: A True Subversive Historian

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWkCnd6F_2I] John Hope Franklin, the most preeminent and pioneering scholar of African-American history, died Wednesday at the age of 94. As a historian, Franklin’s long life bore witness to many of the most important moments in the history of race relations in the United States. The grandson of a slave, he was born and raised in [...]

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