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Obama 2009 Economic Depression Just Beginning: Happy New Year.

The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By Rev. King & Rev: Jermano   With President Obama about to enter the twilight zone in being the first Black American to be elected...

Politisite Guest Blogger for NowPublic at Democratic Debate

NowPublic and Politisite Guest Blogging from the Myrtle Beach Palace Theater CNN and Congressional Black Caucus Democratic Debate Tonight Up Date:  Jan 21, 2008 11:30 Eastern -  With the large...

Time to end Black History Month?

"Should Black History Month itself fade into history?Many have long argued that African-American history should be incorporated into year-round education. Now, claims that Black History Month is outdated are...

Martin Luther King's Children Sue Brother Dexter

Bernice King has filed a lawsuit against her brother, Dexter, alleging that he failed to keep his siblings properly informed of the proceeds from their parents' estates and is mismanaging...

Obama: Competent Turk or Incompetent Christian?

Today is a day set aside to remember the work of Martin Luther King Jr.  It also marks the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States.  Rather than look at the work of the late...

Barack Obama and the Politics of Expectation

"Will he disappoint us? Will we disappoint him? Will we disappoint ourselves?" Read the second installment of the Obama trilogy from The Liberal magazine at: http://www.theliberal.co.uk/Barack_Obama_and_the_Politics_of_Expectation.html

One Hour With A Homeless Man: Birmingham, Alabama. September 16, 2008

When I woke up this morning it never crossed my mind that I would be spending one hour with a homeless man today. That is why there are no photos. I was not prepared. In fact, lately, I have been sick of writing....

SEEING THROUGH CRYSTAL-CLEAR GLASS THE 60’s and TODAY

I was reading the paper yesterday and realized something when I saw the daily Gwinnett County Post Newspaper, "Perspective/Satire" Section.  It was perfect…..    Perfect because lately a...

SEEING THROUGH CRYSTAL-CLEAR GLASS THE 60’s and TODAY

Gwinnett Daily Post "Perspective Page" Excerpt Top 100 American Speeches Excerpt from Texas A&M University

Democrats' Anticipation Builds for Obama Speech

As readers of NowPublic member Karen Hatter's post know, today marks the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech.Tonight also marks another historic occasion, as Barack Obama...

Democracy in Iraq Boomerangs on Bush, McCain As Obama Earns World Leader Meri...

Spreading It's Sovereign Wings, al-Maliki Chutzpah Flies in Face of Bush, McCain Policy that Winning Means Staying OhioNewsBureau Op-Editude By John Michael Spinelli COLUMBUS, OHIO: The long hard slough to...

Another Day In The Life of A White Civil Rights Activist in the Deep South.

(My apologies for the format of this story: I just couldn't get it to do right and have lost my patience with it) I tried to be good, I promise I did. I was in a Doctors' waiting room when the racist...

A Day In the Life of a White Civil Rights Activist

 I was recently at a get together for Obama supporters, and one of the women there, a white administrative assistant at a local University, said she felt really insulated where she worked, and wondered if...

Martin and Merton: Fathers against MIC's War on the World.

The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano  The Fathers of America; one a Contemplative to the Order of Trappists Monks, and the other a Religious Civil Rights Activist both struggling...

Deflating White People’s Contemporary Arguments to Blacks’ Racial Cries:...

1. Slavery Get Over It!Because whites have failed to educate or intentionally not educated themselves on how their forefathers’ racial hate, greed & perversions directly affect our social and psychological well being today doesn’t mean they should not be held...

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