Tag: New Visions Commentary

Should African-Americans Favor Privatizing Social Security? by Dr. B.B. Robinson

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. For the past couple of weeks, major newspapers have carried stories about new efforts to privatize the U.S. Social Security System (SSS). Although the real battle to effect this change is far from beginning ...
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Black Men and Families: What’s Going On? by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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A New Visions Commentary paper published July 2001 by The National Center for Public Policy Research * 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. While in my ...
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The Ten Commandments: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by Melissa Wiedbrauk

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. One thing is for sure. The U.S. Supreme Court has put itself between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the Ten Commandments. Placed along the top border of the Supreme ...
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Sharpton Requires a Foggy Memory, by Michael King

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited A man whose actions led to cold-blooded murders is now running for President. And, because the Reverend Al Sharpton is black and liberal, his infractions will be overlooked by many and forgotten by other ...
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Where’s the NAACP? by R.D. Davis

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. The NAACP is not around to help Ron Greer, a black pastor and fireman in need of assistance. "Civil rights" organizations also weren't there for Pastor Reggie White, the former Green Bay Packer star, ...
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Boycott the NAACP! by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

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Boycotts are an effective means for achieving social change. The Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott was a key point in the struggle for civil rights. Southern Baptists are boycotting the Walt Disney Company to protest the company's moves away from family-friendly ...
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A Man of the (Tattered) Cloth, by Michael King

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Reverend Arthur Allen is the man at the center of a maelstrom. Allen is pastor of a 150-member-strong church - The House of Prayer - in Northwest Atlanta. The church is the focus of ...
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How To Raise a Thug, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. "My baby is a good boy! He didn't do nothing wrong!" The woman who spoke these words sat crying in a rocking chair on her porch. Her 18-year-old son was in jail awaiting trial ...
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New Gasoline May Force Blacks to Run on Empty, by Syd Gernstein

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. There has never been a worse time for the government to push policies that would raise gasoline prices, especially since they've risen almost 45% over the past year. But this is exactly what the ...
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The Media Proves McWhorter Right: Some African-American Youth Believe Academic Excellence is Not “Cool,” by Dr. B.B. Robinson

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Reprints permitted provided source is credited. A great deal of controversy surrounds Berkeley Professor John H. McWhorter's recent book, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. In his book, McWhorter argues that contemporary African-American youth - the Generation Xers - ...
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