PRIORITIES
By Elizabeth Dede
I want to quote a few financial statistics in this column,
without being too creative, or original, to show how our misplaced priorities
during the Bush Administration have harmed so many of our brothers and sisters.
I got this information from the most recent issue of The Crisis, the news
magazine of the NAACP, founded in 1910, and edited first by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Food: New Weapon of Mass Destruction
By RIDGELY MUHAMMAD,Ph.D
Agricultural Economics
Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply,
and it come to pass, that, when war occurs, they join also unto our enemies, and
fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
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THE NAACP Wins AGAIN!
By Mathis "Matt" Wright, Jr.
On Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006 a hearing was held at the Sumter
County courthouse with the Honorable Judge, James Sizemore hearing the
proceedings. In the small courtroom the evidence or lack thereof, was centered
around whether or not the Georgia Open Record Act was violated?
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- CAST THE FIRST STONE
- Year End Review
By: James L. Bryant, Jr.
I can hardly believe it, but it has been an entire year
since this column first made its debut in the Americus Sumter Observer and what
a year it has been!
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Black voters made the
difference in 2006 election
By Ron Walters
I have to begin this brief review of the 2006 elections
with something of a requiem for the fact that the so-called Michigan Civil
Rights Initiative passed 56/43 in that state and, as a result, affirmative
action will be eliminated for higher education, government contracting and other
purposes.
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