In it's Venue for an Artist, The DISH features young and old artists from around the world. Artists include the famous and up-and-coming. There are poets, comedians, writers, playwrights and story-tellers. This page provides links to a few of those who have made contributions to the only international on-line weekly dedicated to the dialogue on Race- The DISH

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War of Words and Poetry Hosts

by John Burl Smith

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The State of the Mind

by John Burl Smith

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Bleeding Argentina

by Greg Palast

About Me: Greg Palast is an investigative reporter for London's Sunday paper, The Observer, and BBC TV's Newsnight. Read the entire article, view or subscribe to his column at http://www.gregpalast.com/. It is taken from his book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

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Gangsta' Rappin on the Chain Gang

by Min. Paul Scott

About Me: Minister Paul Scott is founder of the New Righteous Movement based in Durham, NC which teaches Afrikan Liberation Theology. For the complete essay, contact Min. Scott at operationmedia@yahoo.com

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The Picture Image Window

by John M. Swails

About me: This poem is a reminder of how easy it is to categorize people for whatever reason, when we need to keep in mind, people can and do change. Some for the better, some for worse, but as long as there is potential, we should leave the door of positive possibilities open. With that in mind, I wrote this poem. I also believe that when it comes to superficial, unimportant issues of appearances, the people that matter won't care, and the people that care won't matter! John Swails 2000...

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Their Politics and Ours

by nopossesion1@yahoo.com

About Me: Student/part-time worker living in London, I am a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Our companion party in the USA is the World Socialist Party USA on the web at www.worldsocialism.org.

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Raoul Peck

by John Burl Smith

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Who Benefits from War?

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

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by Alexis de Tocqueville

About Me: Alexis de Tocqueville traversed America in 1831-1832. The above passage is from Chapter 18 of his Democracy in America (1835-1840). At the time he wrote his two-volume study of American democracy, the French nobleman was only twenty-six. His observations were so astute that even today Democracy in America is the subject of much academic study and scholarly debate. (Source: Http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC)

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Why Giuliani Sprayed NYC

by Robert Lederman

About Me: Known for his caricatures of former NY City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Robert Lederman is an artist. President of Artists Response to Illegal State Tactics (ARTIST), his extensive research on Giuliani and the Bush Nazi connection is at http://baltech.org/lederman/. Send responses to robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net.

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End Game

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Signs of Economic Disaster

by Arianna Huffington

About Me: Columns by Arianna Huffington can be found online at www.arianna.com. Send questions and comments to arianna@ariannaonline.com.

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Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow

by Paul Lee

About Me: Paul Lee is a historian, filmmaker, freelance writer and director of Best Efforts, Inc. (BEI), a research and consulting service specializing in the recovery, preservation and dissemination of global black history and culture. For more on BEI and documents on the Ghana coup d'etat email besteffortsinc@yahoo.com.

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Dinner Guest: Me

by Langston Hughes

About Me: Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Born in Missouri, Hughes settled in New York, where he became known as "Shakespeare in Harlem." One of the most prolific writers of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Hughes' prose and poetry illustrated with pathos and ethos the duality of black and white U.S. citizenship.

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Litany for Dictatorships

by Stephen Vincent Benet

About Me: Stephen Vincent Benet won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for his book length poem John Brown's Body. Though the excerpt above from his Litany for Dictatorships was written in 1935, it describes today.

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The "Beale Street Blues

by W.C. Handy

About Me: This song is for "the colored thoroughfare in Memphis, where you could find the best and worst of the Negro life." Walking down Beale on night, the sound of a piano pulled Handy into a cheap café. There he found a dog-tired black man who told Handy he had to play from seven at night until seven in the morning. His life inspired Handy to write "Beale Street Blues."

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Excerpt of Address to America: June 11, 1963

by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

About Me: Elected the 35th US President in 1960, John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. On June 11, 1963, after Alabama Gov. George Wallace promised to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to bar two black students from entering the University of Alabama, Kennedy addressed the American people. He declared that the issues defining the Negro's position in American life was no longer merely economic and political, but also moral. (Source: Congressional Record, 88 Congress, 1 Session, pp. 10965-10966)

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About Me: In 1905, German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) wrote three papers. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his paper that explained photoelectric emission using Planck's quantum theory. A second paper showed that molecular action was indeed responsible for motion. His third paper advocated a special theory of relativity where a constant velocity for light (c) and its consequence, the equivalence of mass (m) and energy, summed up his equation E = mc². In 1915, Einstein published the general theory of relativity.

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About Me: Audre Lorde bravely documented her 14-year battle against cancer in "The Cancer Journals" and in her book of essays "A Burst of Light." In the latter, she wrote: ''The struggle with cancer now informs all my days, but it is only another face of that continuing battle for self-determination and survival that black women fight daily, often in triumph.'' She struggled against disease and a medical establishment that was frequently indifferent to cultural differences and insensitive to women's health issues. She stood in defiance to societal rules that said that she should hide the fact that she had breast cancer. Audre Lorde died in St Croix, Virgin Islands on November 17, 1992. Her spirit fights on.

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Beauty and the Beast

by Disney Productions

Uniquely Disney, the full-length animation of the age-old tale of Beauty and the Beast is entertaining and educational in the tradition of Jeanne Marie LePrince de Beaumont. Winner of several awards, the Disney film recounts the tale of a book-loving beauty and a beast that is really a prince whose castle and person are under a spell cast by a temptress because of his cruelty and insensitivity. The spell can only be broken if he learns to love someone and is loved in return.

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About Me: Bomb Iraq was forwarded to The DISH by stormshaddow@yahoo.com, with instructions to sing to the tune of: "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands;" author unknown.

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"I Believe I Can Fly"

By R. Kelly

About Me: This song by veteran songwriter, producer and performer R. Kelly is on his fourth album entitled R (1998). "I Believe I Can Fly" is also on the soundtrack of the motion picture Space Jam, which stars basketball great Michael Jordan and a host of cartoon characters

 Venue for an Artist ……. Volume 4 (2001)

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