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Lusane: Obama, Blacks And Latinos
Commentary, April, 30 2011
Clarence Lusane
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The White House must draw the right conclusions from recent dismal polls.
Lusane: Zimbabwe May Emulate Tunisia, Egypt, Libya....
Commentary, March, 10 2011
Clarence Lusane
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The regime of 87-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe has sought to pre-empt the types of protests that have shaken autocrats in North Africa and the Middle East.
Lusane: Reject the Confederacy, Celebrate Reconstruction
Commentary, February, 09 2011
Clarence Lusane
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The sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War has unleashed a cacophony of voices...
Lusane: Black History of the President’s House
Commentary, December, 22 2010
Clarence Lusane
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On December 15, 2010 the National Park Service inaugurated its new exhibit, “President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in Making a New Nation” at the Liberty Bell Center pavilion in Philadelphia’s Independence Park.
Lusane: From the White House to Obama’s House
Commentary, October, 21 2010
Clarence Lusane
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As he faces a critical juncture in his presidency, it is perhaps useful for President Obama to reflect upon an obscure but relevant anniversary...
Lusane: Racism, Shirley Sherrod and the Obama White House
Commentary, July, 31 2010
Clarence Lusane
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The Shirley Sherrod controversy, like the Van Jones incident last summer, demonstrates the power of the right-wing media to rock the Obama White House when it comes to racial matters.
Lusane: Who Judges The Judges?
Commentary, April, 21 2002
Clarence Lusane
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Was it normal Supreme Court idiosyncrasies or post-September 11th racial blowback? A recent incident at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ordered a young Indian woman to remove a scarf on her head because it apparen...
Lusane: Lethal Truth
Commentary, January, 05 2002
Clarence Lusane
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As the totalitarianism rustles continue to rise across the American landscape sowing intolerance, more and more progressive voices are being targeted. Danny Glover is the latest.
Lusane: The World is Hungry
Commentary, November, 27 2001
Clarence Lusane
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What do the people who are starving in the world outside of Afghanistan have to do to get food?
Lusane: In Memory of Lisa Sullivan
Commentary, October, 22 2001
Clarence Lusane
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On October 1, to the shock of most of her friends and supporters, progressive activist and youth leader Lisa Yvette Sullivan passed suddenly due to congestive heart failure.
Lusane: Clinton Escapes Again
Commentary, September, 07 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Each Summer the major civil rights organizations hold their annual gatherings. Attended by thousands, these events include workshops, plenaries, and major addresses by civil rights leaders, trade union officials, representatives from women and you...
Lusane: Defending the New Klan
Commentary, July, 02 1999
Clarence Lusane
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It is perhaps a sign of millennium madness that the century will end with the bizzare phenomena of an African American lawyer defending in court the right of a member of the Ku Klux Klan - whose name ironically is Black - to burn crosses. However,...
Lusane: Jailhouse Knocks
Commentary, May, 22 1999
Clarence Lusane
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HBO's "Thug Life in DC" is not about Bill Clinton's proclivities toward Serbia. It is a stunning wakeup call about the growing warehousing of young black men in the nation's jails and prisons.
Lusane: Jackson and the Contradictions of War
Commentary, May, 13 1999
Clarence Lusane
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Into the storm's eye of the Balkin war stepped Rev. Jesse Jackson, and, once again, he emerges with prisoners of war.
Lusane: Don't Ignore the Hate Crime
Commentary, April, 27 1999
Clarence Lusane
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In the aftermath of the tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado, a search for meaning and understanding has begun. Concerned citizens across the nation are seeking to grasp what motivated at least two students to turn a normal school day into...
Lusane: Racism's Enablers
Commentary, April, 14 1999
Clarence Lusane
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While much of the American publicÕs attention has been focused on the evils of Milosovich and his efforts at ethnic cleansing, AmericaÕs home grown fascists and their enablers have gotten a free ride.
Lusane: Remembering the International Day Against Racism
Commentary, March, 21 1999
Clarence Lusane
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While it is doubtful that the U.S. media will give it much attention, March 21 is the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Lusane: The Steven Lawrence Victory
Commentary, March, 18 1999
Clarence Lusane
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For every police murder of a person of color or racist street killing in the United States, there are mirror cases of death by bigoted cops and street thugs in other places. Nowhere is this truer than in the United Kingdom.
