Showing posts with label Black Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Community. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

How George Tiller's Death Affects Black Women


How George Tiller's Death Affects Black Women
by Salamishah Tillet

George Tiller’s death should have civil rights activists up in arms. Where are they when black women’s lives are at stake?

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Yeah Obama, What About the Black Community?


from NewsOne.com

Hecklers at Obama Rally Expose Fault Lines in the Black Community
by Mark Anthony Neal

At a recent rally in Florida, Barack Obama's speech was interrupted by a group of young black male hecklers, members of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, who held a banner asking, "What About the Black Community, Obama?" However inappropriate the interruption, the banner raises crucial questions about the very concept of "black community" in the early 21st century-as well as the many divisions an Obama candidacy poses for it.

A simple rejoinder to the young men who heckled Obama might be, "whose black community are you referring to?"

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