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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
 When people hear about AIDS, a lot of them think of Africa. After all, the media has inundated us with photographs and stories of AIDS orphans, mother to child transmission, the lack of access to drugs, the disproportionate number of persons infected by the HIV virus, and so on. All of this is true and we should continue to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa, yet we need to realize that the AIDS epidemic is not over in America, and it is especially not over in Black America. Click to continue at WashingtonInformer.com
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
 Black America is under the assault of a biased criminal justice system, and the Jena protest was a spasm of its collective consciousness. Click to continue at InTheseTimes.org
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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 The book lays out the difficult route black people will have to take
to free the many who are still trapped in prisons of extreme violence,
poverty, degradation and depression. It’s a work with a palpable undercurrent of love throughout. And yet it pulls no punches. Click to continue at NYTimes.com
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
 Comedian Bill Cosby is the walking and now writing proof of the ancient
adage that good intentions can go terribly awry. That's never been more
painfully true than in Cosby's latest tome, Come on People. Click to continue at Alternet.org
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
 This will be a history of rope. It strikes me that such a history is
desperately needed just now. It seems the travesty in Jena, La., has
spawned a ghastly trend. Remember how white students at Jena High
placed nooses in a tree last year to communicate antipathy toward their
African-American classmates? Now it's happening all over. Click to continue at MiamiHerald.com
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