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STAFF SGT. DAMON BRODY typifies the young African warrors who still pledge alliance to their flag and their country.

Are Black Patriots Confused?

    “The plight of U.S. Black men is far more dire than is portrayed by employment and education statistics, a flurry of new studies warn, and it has kept worsening even as an economic boom and welfare reforms brought gains to Black women and many other groups. New studies by experts at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and other institutions show that the huge pool of poorly educated Black males are becoming ever more disconnected from the mainstream society and to a far greater degree than white or Hispanic males.

~See full article by Bud Johnson~

VICTOR SIMON “BAILIFF”
JUDGE ALEX SHOW

      The headline in African-AmericanNews&Issues’ June 22 - 28, 2006 warned that Black children are targets in Texas school systems and at risk of becoming pawns of the juvenile justice system. Despite the numerous meetings, campaign speeches and pulpit grandstanding that promote Black children as “the future,” Black youth are constantly being attacked, written off and railroaded by police, judges, “Yes sum’” Blacks, White teachers, caretakers, principals and other school officials who have made deals with Willie Lynch and Jim Crow to sell our future down the river.

~See article by Jesse Simon~

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Facing Poverty in America

    For 38 years, the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. to deal with paralyzing poverty in this nation was unrealized and adrift. But, like the seven horses and seven chariots of fire, a new generation has arisen armed with King’s spirit burning in their hearts.This group of African American Christian, economists, educators, celebrities and Black elected leaders are demanding an end to the evils of poverty and the selfish greed driving big Capitalist-minded executives and policy that allows them to take advantage of the poor by padding their pockets, while others struggle to survive.

~See article by Darwin Campbell~