Published in Issue 282 of The Black Commentator on June 19, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

History does not repeat itself. Rather, it is people who repeat history, especially when we do not learn from the lessons of history.

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Published in Issue 278 of The Black Commentator on May 22, 2008
Republished in allthingscynthiamckinney.com on May 22, 2008
Listed in the Power to the People Committee Cynthia McKinney […]

Published in Issue 273 of The Black Commentator on April 17, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

So you want change, do you?

It is the year 2008, and while the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States incessantly prattle on about everything […]

Published in Issue 265 of The Black Commentator on February 21, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

It is the year 2008, and Black people have once again been betrayed.

Indeed, Black, Brown, and Red peoples have yet again been hideously betrayed. All people of good […]

Published in Issue 263 of The Black Commentator as one of its two cover stories on February 7, 2008.

This article was listed as a resource in the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education’s Richard Prince’s Journal-isms column article entitled, ‘ “Turning Point” in Primaries,’ by Richard Prince on

Published in Issue 262 of The Black Commentator on January 31, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

It’s strange sometimes how things occur. Nevertheless, what goes around will always, ultimately, come around.

A very short while ago I sat staring at the contents of a package I had just received […]

Published in Issue 261 of The Black Commentator on January 24, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

More than ever, the time is here to think in-depth and critically. At stake is everything.

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary activities in which we Black Americans can […]

Published in Issue 260 of The Black Commentator on January 17, 2008
By Larry Pinkney

What is the current US corporate media-induced frenzy, regarding the so-called “Obama phenomenon,” really all about and why, at this juncture in history, […]

Published in Issue 255 of The Black Commentator on November 29, 2007
Republished in iZania on November 29, 2007
By Larry Pinkney

Life is struggle. Shirk it and lose it. Embrace it and most assuredly fulfill it.

What does […]

Published in Issue 245 of The Black Commentator on September 20, 2007
Republished in iZania on September 22, 2007

By Larry Pinkney

There is an adage, which says, “When a […]

Published in Issue 243 of The Black Commentator on September 6, 2007
Republished in cleveland.indymedia.org on September 7, 2007

By Larry Pinkney

As the systemically corporate-driven Bush/Cheney US ship of […]

Published in Issue 242 of The Black Commentator on August 16, 2007
Republished in New America Media (USA) on August 27, 2007

By Larry Pinkney

Recently, I found myself listening in on a group of nine young Black high school […]

Published in Issue 226 of The Black Commentator on April 19, 2007
Republished in iZania on April 27, 2007
By Larry Pinkney

We are well into the 21st century and it continues […]