Created 3/17/08
Black Agenda Report, the journal of African American political thought and action, Major League Baseball is reeling from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's demands that the leagues stop treating his country's players as cheap, expendable labor., It's a poem., The Kerner Commission's recommendations have been paid little… (more) heed in the 40 years since the report was issued., Government and corporate power relentlessly make permanent the initial human damage of Katrina. By any measure, about half the poor have still no returned., Wall Street wants a president that will help them avoid the legal consequences of their criminal bubble-creation activities. Obama's the one., By blindly and tamely supporting Obama, Blacks and progressives are neutered themselves., The American people know too little about economics or the world to prepare them for the coming meltdown., The U.S. prison gulag relentlessly expands, fueled by a national policy of mass Black incarceration. (less)
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