Tag: New Visions Commentary

The Lionel Tate Saga Continues, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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Lionel Tate is back in the news again. Tate is the young black boy from Florida who was convicted of brutally murdering a six-year-old girl when he was only 12 and became the youngest person in American history to be ...
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“Crash” Causes Pain, by B.B. Robinson

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Recent box office receipts indicate a significant number of people are taking notice of "Crash," a recent movie that attempts to explain why each of us may hold certain notions about other ethnic groups. Douglas Young, on the Internet Movie ...
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Janice Rogers Brown’s Equal Justice, by Craig DeLuz

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One of the most contentious of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees was California Supreme Court Associate Justice Janice Rogers Brown.  Highly rated by the American Bar Association, Justice Brown is praised by her peers on the California Supreme Court, ...
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Five Suggestions for Michael Jackson, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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While shopping recently, I ended up in one of those boxy, warehouse-like stores with a dreaded common dressing room. Four women of different races, ages, shapes and sizes pretended not to notice each other. Suddenly, we heard Michael Jackson's voice ...
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Social Security Reform for All Retirees, Present and Future, by Ak’bar Shabazz

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Social Security is in dire condition. Most agree that benefits for present retirees should be protected. At the same time, it's equally important to make sure younger generations - future retirees - see a return on the billions of dollars ...
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The Poor Deserve More Than Reimports. by Council Nedd II and Leslie O. Anderson

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In the Bible, the Book of Proverbs has a passage which reads, "a good person knows the rights of the poor, but the wicked cannot understand such things." The Gospel of St. Matthew talks about society's obligation to the "the ...
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Terri Schiavo: America’s Lost Hope, by Djana Milton

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Terri Schiavo, a woman who collapsed at 26 and suffered severe brain damage, is dead because her husband and our justice system determined that her life wasn't worth living. Many of us never seriously contemplate our own deaths, especially at ...
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Black Economist Has a Lesson for Everyone About Basic Economics, by Dutch Martin

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"Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses." That's the premise of Stanford economist Thomas Sowell's book Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, originally published in 2000. Dr. Sowell, one of the ...
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Foolish Question About Bill Cosby, by Mychal Massie

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If a homeless, drunken bum lying in a gutter says people shouldn't drink, is the message diminished because it comes from a homeless, drunken bum? Judges routinely sentence the guilty to public service. This can include the guilty speaking out ...
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How to Manage and Afford Senior Health Care, by Council Nedd II and Leslie O. Anderson

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There are lots of jokes poking fun at growing old. For instance, you know you're getting older when everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work. Likewise, the gleam in your eye now comes from the sun hitting your bifocals ...
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