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8/7/2002 Part of the BlackPressUSA Network <!-- // Begin IMAGE rollovers function newImage(arg) { if (document.images) { rslt = new Image(); rslt.src = arg; return rslt; } } function changeImages() { if (document.images && (preloadFlag == true)) { for (var i=0; i<changeImages.arguments.length; i+=2) { document[changeImages.arguments[i]].src = changeImages.arguments[i+1]; } } } var preloadFlag = false; function preloadImages() { if (document.images) { // name of variable does not matter blank = newImage("Images/Blank.gif"); arrow = newImage("Images/menu/Arrow.gif"); arrow2 = newImage("Images/menu/Arrow2.gif"); arrowClear = newImage("Images/menu/ArrowClear.gif"); preloadFlag = true; } } preloadImages(); // end IMAGE rollovers // --> HOME NEWS EDITORIAL editorial feature cartoons letters LIFESTYLE SPORTS HISTORY ABOUT US NETWORK SITES EDITORIAL Reparations: One Day at a Time Special from the Louisiana WeeklyEditor's Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part commentary. Part 2 will be presented next week.) In a recent article published in the Louisiana Weekly newspaper, several Blacks spoke openly about their unmitigated disdain for the reparations ... Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852 The following speech was delivered the 4th of July, 1852 by Frederick Douglass and serves as a reminder of the plight of African Americans captured and oppressed in America. It's the irony of ironies that the freedom mentioned on July 4, 1776 only referenced the freedom of white males and didn't include Africans captured in America. The other contradition was the famous statute of King George III being torn down by African slaves. Until our ancestors are avenged and ... FEATURED COLUMUNIST Beating Victim's Lawyer Issues Challenge By. Joe C. Hopkins Special to the NNPA from the Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley and Latino Journal News PASADENA, Calif. (NNPA)-The events of July 6, 2002, like the events of 1992 with the arrest of now infamous Rodney King, will live in the memory of the world forever. This event will join the litany of events that define the violent relationship between Black and White Americans from the beginning of our... African Union Ignites Pride of Black People Part I Durban, South Africa -- When leaders of 53 African countries recently launched the African Union here, they heralded the dawn of a new era to work for the economic self-sufficiency of the continent. In forming the new union to replace the Organization of African Unity (OAU) at their summit in the South African port city, they gave a flicker of hope to the down-trodden people of the continent, who have suffered ... LETTERS TO EDITOR TERRORIST AND THE ONE MILLION PLUS FALLEN ANGELS--UNSEEN FORCES We are so dangerously asleep in the devil's dream world that we let the murdering of unborn babies go as if everything is okay. God is going to bring down America because of this. We are taking on the terrorists, but we are still asleep in the devils's dream world. We all inherited death as part of life. Being so unaware of the unseen forces, most of the people alive and most of the people dead from the beginning of time will be in the second resurrection along ... Children or Tax Cuts--The Nation Must Decide The Children's Defense Fund Urges Repeal of Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest One Percent''Follow the money and you will find what we truly care about and stand for as a nation,'' said Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. ''Budgets represent moral and social choices--not just economic ones. It is time to make better choices to protect our children.'' ... SEARCH Click here for anAdvanced Search Contact Us: Copyright 2001 All Rights Reserved :: Legal and Privacy Policy