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Commentary Marable: The New Racial Domain

Commentary, April, 30 2004 Manning Marable
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The nearly forty million Americans of African descent find ourselves in an unprecedented situation, with the slow demise of affirmative action. The enemies of racial justice have not (yet) reinstalled "colored" and "white" signs at restrooms and ...

Commentary Marable: In Defense of Black Reparations

Commentary, November, 11 2002 Manning Marable
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Throughout this year, the black reparations debate has become widely known, and it continued to attract increased national and international attention. In February 2002, CNN and USA Today commissioned the Gallup organization to conduct a national ...

Commentary Marable: The Failure of U.S. Foreign Policies

Commentary, November, 20 2001 Manning Marable
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The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and only erodes American credibility ...

Commentary Marable: Public Education and Black Empowerment

Commentary, April, 04 2001 Manning Marable
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I recently was keynote speaker at the National Caucus of Black School Board Members, held during the sixty-first annual National School Boards Association in San Diego. I met hundreds of dedicated, progressive African-American community leaders wh...

Commentary Marable: Two on the Election

Commentary, January, 08 2001 Manning Marable
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We have just witnessed, in the United States, the massive and wholesale theft of the presidency. Yet the fraudulent political dynamics that propelled loser George W. Bush into the White House have happened before. A political philosopher once obse...

Commentary Marable: ÒEducation Works, Prisons DonÕtÓ

Commentary, November, 01 2000 Manning Marable
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ÒEducation Works, Prisons DonÕtÓ was the call to action that attracted hundreds of concerned New Yorkers at a Harlem teach-in, sponsored by United New York Black Radical Congress, on October 27-28, 2000. The teach-in brought together students, pa...

Commentary Marable: “Education Works, Prisons Don’t”

Commentary, November, 01 2000 Manning Marable
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“Education Works, Prisons Don’t” was the call to action that attracted hundreds of concerned New Yorkers at a Harlem teach-in, sponsored by United New York Black Radical Congress, on October 27-28, 2000. The teach-in broug...

Commentary Marable: Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy

Commentary, September, 11 2000 Manning Marable
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The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent their own voices...

Commentary Marable: Racism, Prisons and the Future of Black America

Commentary, August, 31 2000 Manning Marable
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There are today over two million Americans incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails throughout the United States. More than one-half, or one million, are black men and women. The devastating human costs of the mass incarceration o...

Commentary Marable: Why Diallo Had To Die

Commentary, May, 19 2000 Manning Marable
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For more than one year, the controversy surrounding the New York murder of Amadou Diallo has made headlines throughout the world. Most people have heard by now about the unarmed African immigrant who was fired on 41 times as he stood in the vestib...

Commentary Marable: White Supremacy in Dixie

Commentary, March, 27 2000 Manning Marable
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How far has America actually progressed toward more constructive race relations? Judging by some recent events, not much.

Commentary Marable: No Rights Whites Must Respect

Commentary, February, 25 2000 Manning Marable
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In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of the court's ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that blacks could never be granted equal protecti...

Commentary Marable: Seattle and Beyond

Commentary, January, 22 2000 Manning Marable
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It was immensely significant for black America that the last major public demonstration in the U.S. in the 20th century was a protest over global economics and trade.

Commentary Marable: Civil Rights or Silver Rights

Commentary, January, 03 2000 Manning Marable
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More than a century ago, conservative black educator Booker T. Washington proposed a strategy for black advancement within capitalism. The founder of both Tuskegee Institute and the National Negro Business League, Washington cautioned African Amer...

Commentary Marable: A Dialogue Between Generations

Commentary, December, 20 1999 Manning Marable
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Several weeks ago I attended and spoke at a conference on race which was organized at Stanford University. After delivering my lecture, I walked down the steps from the stage. Clustered around the steps were several male and female graduate studen...

Commentary Marable: The Politics of Inequality

Commentary, December, 09 1999 Manning Marable
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The fundamental issue that will define U.S. politics in the first decade of the twenty-first century is the spiraling growth of inequality in American life.

Commentary Marable: The KKK: From Greensboro to NYC

Commentary, November, 15 1999 Manning Marable
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Twenty years ago, on November 3, 1979, five principled and dedicated activists for social justice-Cesar Cauce, Dr. Mike Nathan, Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith, and Dr. Jim Waller-were brutally murdered in Greensboro, North Carolina by the Ku Klux Klan....

Commentary Marable: The Black Radical Congress: Moving On Up To Congress 2000

Commentary, November, 04 1999 Manning Marable
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On June 19, 1998, over two thousand African Americans gathered in Chicago to participate in the founding conference of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).

Commentary Marable: Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex

Commentary, September, 30 1999 Manning Marable
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Several months ago, 650 people attended the "Race-ing Justice" Conference in New York, sponsored by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. In more than two dozen panels and workshops, black people examined t...

Commentary Marable: The Battle for Ideas

Commentary, September, 18 1999 Manning Marable
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Political power always expresses itself as a body of ideas. If you can create and popularize the key ideas that define the general perceptions about public issues, you will largely determine what happens politically.

Commentary Marable: Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Commentary, September, 01 1999 Manning Marable
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Immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X was asked by the media for his response. Malcolm was not surprised by this tragic event, because white America had long fostered violence and racism throughout society...

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