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Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:
Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black America
Urban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman
Contributing editor: (works in progress)
Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency
Screaming Doors (novel)
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
It's going to be a lawsuit moment: class actions slated to restructure real estate market Industry critics say lawsuits will restructure the American real estate market. Is it already too late?
Thursday, December 13, 2007It's going to be a lawsuit moment: class actions slated to restructure real estate market Industry critics say lawsuits will restructure the American real estate market. Is it already too late?
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
More single women buying homes-and becoming targets for real estate thieves There are thousands of desperate single mothers out there, desperate to create a better life for themselves and their families, desperate to stop enriching greedy landlords, desperate to hold a piece of the American Dream for their own. And, in their desperation, they have become lunch meat for the predatory loan industry, even if they have "good credit."
Tuesday, December 4, 2007More single women buying homes-and becoming targets for real estate thieves There are thousands of desperate single mothers out there, desperate to create a better life for themselves and their families, desperate to stop enriching greedy landlords, desperate to hold a piece of the American Dream for their own. And, in their desperation, they have become lunch meat for the predatory loan industry, even if they have "good credit."
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Small Pockets, Big Hearts: Making a Difference a Dollar at a Time Good health and education are essential to raising poor people out of poverty and giving them the educational skills and the physical health to be productive, self-reliant citizens.
Sunday, December 2, 2007Small Pockets, Big Hearts: Making a Difference a Dollar at a Time Good health and education are essential to raising poor people out of poverty and giving them the educational skills and the physical health to be productive, self-reliant citizens.
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Mortgage fraud: It's so bad feds just track cases over 50K Mortgage fraud has long since left the small operator behind. These days, the meat of the fraud is generated by organized rings of specialized thieves, including bankers, real estate brokers, government loan specialists and drug king pins.
Sunday, December 2, 2007Mortgage fraud: It's so bad feds just track cases over 50K Mortgage fraud has long since left the small operator behind. These days, the meat of the fraud is generated by organized rings of specialized thieves, including bankers, real estate brokers, government loan specialists and drug king pins.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Legacy of the Debt Industrial Complex: Wrecked marriages, stress, suicide The human toll of the nation's shaky loan industry has yet to be measured, but social workers and family counseling experts say family financial problems are leading to divorce, spousal and child abuse, even suicide.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007Legacy of the Debt Industrial Complex: Wrecked marriages, stress, suicide The human toll of the nation's shaky loan industry has yet to be measured, but social workers and family counseling experts say family financial problems are leading to divorce, spousal and child abuse, even suicide.
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Suckered Again: American Public Being Played for Stooges Many armchair pessimists continue to believe that the public is being used as puppets, in a variety of issues. Briefly put, somebody is yanking our chains and we are dancing like a herd of string puppets
Saturday, November 24, 2007Suckered Again: American Public Being Played for Stooges Many armchair pessimists continue to believe that the public is being used as puppets, in a variety of issues. Briefly put, somebody is yanking our chains and we are dancing like a herd of string puppets
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Kids Charged As Adults: The Death of the Infancy Defense As the emotional throw a ways and castaways bloat our prisons at a cost of more than $20,000 a year, too many of our resources are being diverted to the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex. What will happen to the children on the edge if the economy tanks and what few resources we have devoted to juvenile mental health and education disappear?
Thursday, November 22, 2007Kids Charged As Adults: The Death of the Infancy Defense As the emotional throw a ways and castaways bloat our prisons at a cost of more than $20,000 a year, too many of our resources are being diverted to the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex. What will happen to the children on the edge if the economy tanks and what few resources we have devoted to juvenile mental health and education disappear?
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Choosers of the Slain: Criminal conflicts of Interest in farm loan industry Gary Grant is a black farmer who fully understands the challenges black farmers face in their quest for property rights and justice. Grant, founder of the Black Farmers and Agricultural Association, is locked in a legal battle with the federal government over a loan, which his father purportedly took out in 1981.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007Choosers of the Slain: Criminal conflicts of Interest in farm loan industry Gary Grant is a black farmer who fully understands the challenges black farmers face in their quest for property rights and justice. Grant, founder of the Black Farmers and Agricultural Association, is locked in a legal battle with the federal government over a loan, which his father purportedly took out in 1981.
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Guliani's ex-business partner's troubles sticking like a coat of dead fish Ex-Giuliani partner accused in a 16-count indictment
Friday, November 9, 2007Guliani's ex-business partner's troubles sticking like a coat of dead fish Ex-Giuliani partner accused in a 16-count indictment
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Success! Permission obtained for protest The persistence of an 80 year old black farmer who is an alleged victim of land theft has paid off. Kentucky State University officials in Frankfort, Kentucky have changed their minds about pushing his protest to an obscure location at the football stadium.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007Success! Permission obtained for protest The persistence of an 80 year old black farmer who is an alleged victim of land theft has paid off. Kentucky State University officials in Frankfort, Kentucky have changed their minds about pushing his protest to an obscure location at the football stadium.
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Bucks, Bread and Bullets: Farming Under the Gun In Pakistan, the situation is increasingly dire for millions of subsistence farmers and peasants. According to one source: Most of the farmer community [in Pakistan], approximately 80%, constitute haris, or agricultural labourers, men and women, who do not own any land.
Monday, November 5, 2007Bucks, Bread and Bullets: Farming Under the Gun In Pakistan, the situation is increasingly dire for millions of subsistence farmers and peasants. According to one source: Most of the farmer community [in Pakistan], approximately 80%, constitute haris, or agricultural labourers, men and women, who do not own any land.
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Sunday, November 4, 2007
Press Release: Black farmer getting runaround on protest permission An 80 year old Kentucky black farmer is getting the run around in attempts to organize an informational picket coinciding with a farm conference October 15, 2007 on the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Sunday, November 4, 2007Press Release: Black farmer getting runaround on protest permission An 80 year old Kentucky black farmer is getting the run around in attempts to organize an informational picket coinciding with a farm conference October 15, 2007 on the Kentucky State University campus in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Energy prices manipulated: millions to go without heating assistance Start looking for a second job to pay your heating bill this winter-you're gonna need one.
Monday, October 22, 2007Energy prices manipulated: millions to go without heating assistance Start looking for a second job to pay your heating bill this winter-you're gonna need one.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Black farmer takes to the streets to protest KKK activity on his farm The President's reason for deploying hundreds of thousands of American troops to the Middle East is so we don't have to fight terrorists here. However, the rise in nativism and home-grown terrorism in the US remains a centuries' old problem at home.
Monday, October 15, 2007Black farmer takes to the streets to protest KKK activity on his farm The President's reason for deploying hundreds of thousands of American troops to the Middle East is so we don't have to fight terrorists here. However, the rise in nativism and home-grown terrorism in the US remains a centuries' old problem at home.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Desperate Times for Black Land Crimes Victim in Texas It's getting down to the wire and Sam Mims is getting desperate. The young black Texas rancher says he is the victim of what appears to be a long-standing conspiracy to run him off of his ranch-by any means necessary.
Friday, August 10, 2007Desperate Times for Black Land Crimes Victim in Texas It's getting down to the wire and Sam Mims is getting desperate. The young black Texas rancher says he is the victim of what appears to be a long-standing conspiracy to run him off of his ranch-by any means necessary.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Don't throw those loan records away--You might need them 20 years from now! A growing underground industry of farm, student and mortgage debt collection targets people who have already paid off their loans.
Monday, July 30, 2007Don't throw those loan records away--You might need them 20 years from now! A growing underground industry of farm, student and mortgage debt collection targets people who have already paid off their loans.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Where's the Deed? Who's Hijacking billions of dollars in Farmland? An Arkansas farmer wants to know who is squatting on his land and why his county Recorder is balking at letting him have access to his land records.
Friday, July 20, 2007Where's the Deed? Who's Hijacking billions of dollars in Farmland? An Arkansas farmer wants to know who is squatting on his land and why his county Recorder is balking at letting him have access to his land records.
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Saturday, June 2, 2007
Do Something! Stop Foamin' at the Mouth on the Lunatic Express Today's activists are ordinary people who have risen above their human limitations--for a while. Unless we help them recharge their batteries, they get worn down, worn out and wiped out.
Saturday, June 2, 2007Do Something! Stop Foamin' at the Mouth on the Lunatic Express Today's activists are ordinary people who have risen above their human limitations--for a while. Unless we help them recharge their batteries, they get worn down, worn out and wiped out.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
Corn Country Revolution Battle Lines Drawn Over Bio-Fuels For all of the hype about "alternative energy," for all of the political hoopla touting gasohol as a way to wean the nation from its dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a group of activists in Southern Indiana is sounding the alarm about to the side effects of the rising corn-based ethanol industry.
Friday, May 11, 2007Corn Country Revolution Battle Lines Drawn Over Bio-Fuels For all of the hype about "alternative energy," for all of the political hoopla touting gasohol as a way to wean the nation from its dangerous dependence on foreign oil, a group of activists in Southern Indiana is sounding the alarm about to the side effects of the rising corn-based ethanol industry.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Mind altering substance slimes national airwaves: Viewers still recovering Sudden cable coverage of possible impeachment move must have been some kind of alien mind control--or a hallucination.
Thursday, May 10, 2007Mind altering substance slimes national airwaves: Viewers still recovering Sudden cable coverage of possible impeachment move must have been some kind of alien mind control--or a hallucination.
