Throughout American history, military valor and athletic showmanship have been utilized by African Americans as weapons for cultural respect.
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Professor David L. Horne is founder and executive director of PAPPEI, the Pan African Public Policy and Ethical Institute, which is a new 501(c)(3) pending community-based organization or non-governmental organization (NGO). It is the stepparent organization for the California Black Think Tank which still operates and which meets every
fourth Friday.
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Could Republicans be contemplating impeachment?
In 1998, two years into his second term, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives voted articles of impeachment against then-president Bill Clinton. He was accused of perjury and obstruction of justice, in connection with the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal in the White House.
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All the continent moves to achieve a Pan African education
Colonial education in Africa was fundamentally aimed at teaching Africans that Europeans were superior in everything, and that the purpose of African life was to follow whatever Europeans said and go wherever they led. Africans were to stay divided and quarreling among themselves, and the only unity they were to achieve was in their agreement to allow Europeans to do whatever they wanted in Africa and to Africans. Colonial education was aimed at teaching Africans to stay dependent on White outsiders.
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A quest for a Black agenda at the Galen Center
Last Sunday at the Galen Center, a group of collected community groups, USC’s Office of…
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Practical Politics
In case you didn’t get the memo, 2008 is a very serious political year for…
