Venue for an Art= ist

In its Venue for= an Artist, The DISH features young and old artists from around the world. Arti= sts include the famous and up-and-coming. There are poets, comedians, writers, playwrig= hts 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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Volume 15 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2012

Issue 1 2012 Predictions (Excerpts)…Junious Ricardo Stanton<= /span>

"Rugged Individualism Speech= " (October 22, 1928)…By Herbert Hoover Issue 2

Issue 3 99 to 1…By Jonathan Blackshire

Review: The United States of Fear= …By Derek Bolton Issue 4

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Volume 14 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2011

Issue 1 Morgenthau's Final Prediction (Excerpts)…By Francis A. Boyle

Alleged Beating After Peaceful Pr= otest (Excerpts)…By Dr. Boyce Watkins Issue 2

Issue 3 The New Jim Crow (Excerpts)…By Michelle Alexander

Seeds of Suicide…By Uma Sha= nkari Issue 4

Issue 6 Excerpts from Two Speeches.. By President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Come on and Bring On the Reparations…By Sekou Sundiata Issue 7

Issue 8 The Conversation America Won't Have on Race…By Irene Monroe

The Workers, Middle Class, Milita= ry Junta and the Permanent Revolution…By Hossam el-Hamalawy Issue 9

Issue 11 Dressings…By Leslie Owen Wilson

Interviews with David Cay Johnston (Excerpts= ) Issue 12

Issue 14 To the Colored People of North Carolina

The Value of an Educated Mind in a High-Tech World…By Paul Krugman Issue 15

Issue 16 The Shifting Zeitgeist of the 'Arab Spring'…By Mark LeVine

Po= etic Justice…By= Robert Johnson Issue 17

Issue 18 And God Cries...By Rosalie Bertell

Israel<= /st1:country-region> Stripped 140,000 of Residency Rights…By Harriet Sherwood Issue 20

Iss= ue 22 three strikes…By devorah major

Not All Black Intellectuals Think= Alike (Excerpts)…By Melissa Harris-Perry Issue 23

Issue 24 Faith-Based Economics of Deficit Reduction…By Dean Baker<= /o:p>

Changes…By Tupac Amaru Shak= ur (1971 - 1996) Issue 25

Issue 27 A Prank, a Death -- and Another Injustice…By Leonard Pitts, Jr= .

Poverty Is Rooted In US Education System Issue 28

Issue 29 The Continuing Assault on Social Security…By Junious Ricardo Stanton

Greatest Love of All…By Mic= hael Masser and Linda Creed Issue 30

Issue 31 Meet the Obscure Unelected Agencies Strangling U.S. Cities (Excerpt)…By Angie Schmitt

Katrina Clap…By Mos Def Issue 32

Issue 33 When Is a "Riot" a Revolt? (Excerpts)…By Carl Finamo= re

Annual State= of the Union (1964)…By President L= yndon B. Johnson Issue 34

Issue 34 Letter from a Birmingha= m Jail (Excerpts)…By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Free and Equal Blues…By Josh White (1914 - 1969) Issue 36

Issue 37 Israeli Protests Give Masses a Reason to Speak Out…By Gal Beckerman

Speaking Truth to Power…By = Cornel West Issue 38

Issue 39 The Dis-United Nations…By Dr. Lal Khan

Thoughts on Capital Punishment= 230;By Rod McKeun Issue 40

Issue 41 4 Generator Failures Hit Us Nuclear Plants (Excerpts)…By Ray H= enry

Wall Street's Undertow: Drugs and Anxiety…By Tim McLaughlin Issue 42

Issue 43 Union Nurses Call for Wall Street Tax…By Michael Moore

Corporate Crimes in the Cereal Ai= sle (Excerpts)…By Ida Hartmann Issue 44

Issue 46 Jailed for Sailing to G= aza, Challenging the Blockade…By Medea Benjamin and Robert Naiman

Downsizing…By Jenny Walker = Issue 47

Issue 48 Thanks for What?...By Robert Scheer

Tribute to Fallujah…By Bryan Newman Issue 50

Volume 13 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2010

Issue 2 Ain't I a Woman?…By Sojourner Truth

Women Behind Bars (Excerpts)̷= 0;By Silja J.A. Talvi Issue 3

Issue 4 Afghanistan…By Dorothy Ter= ry

Black 'Skull and Bones' - The "Boule"…By Lesley Terry Issue 5

Issue 6 Dirty Secret (Excerpts)…By Kari Lydersen

Issue 10 Requests and Demands - Not the Same (Excerpts)…By Bill Fletche= r, Jr.

Speech by President Bill Clinton&= #8230;Issue 15

Issue 18 New Jim Crow: War on Drugs' Permanent Undercaste…By Michelle Alexander

When Are WE Going to Get Over It?= By Andrew M. Manis…Issue 19

Issue 20 Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (Excerpts)…By David Walker

Hungry by the Numbers…By Da= vid Bacon and Betsy Edwards Issue 21

Issue 22 You Don't Read Africa…By Da= vid Munene wa Kimberly

The Price of War…By Helen T= homas Issue 24

Issue 25 US Apartheid of Indigenous Peoples (Excerpts)…By Brenda Norrel= l

On the Road to a Jobless Recovery (Excerpts)…By David Moberg Issue 27

Issue 28 LOST…By Charles L. Cabbage

A Massacre Is Not a Massacre..By Ghassan Hage Issue 29

Issue 30 The Spider and the Fly…By Mary Howitt (1799-1888)

Have I No Glory?...= By Kosi Dedey Issue 31

Issue 32 The Rationale for State-Owned Banks…By Lorenzo A. Canizares

The Problem…By John Greenle= af Whittier Issue 33

Issue 34 Female Infants Growing Breasts…By John Robbins

Flying the Flag; Faking the News…By John Pilger Issue 36

Issue 37 A Search for Identity…By John Henrik Clarke (May 1970)

Woman Doused Herself with Acid= 230;By Joshua Holland Issue 38

Issue 39 Historically Black Coonin': Institutionalizing Lower Learning…= By Paul Scott

The Bigot-Whisperers (Excerpts)…By Phil Rockstroh Issue 41

Issue 42 Talking with Jews (or Not)…By Dr. Kevin MacDonald

African Phoenix…By Bashir Goth Issue 43

Issue 44 No Borders, No Nations…By Anti-Flag

The Solid South…By John Wil= lis Menard Issue 45

Issue 46 Zoot Riots Are Race Riots (Excerpts)…Chester B. Himes

The Weimar Solution (Excerpts)…By Dav= id Glenn Cox Issue 47

Issue 48 Southern States…By Margaret Juliet Bailey

The Chain (1839)…By John Pi= erpont Issue 49

Issue 50 Social Security: Drive for Cuts Based on Deception…By Mark Weisbrot

My Hopes for BANISHED…By Mar= co Williams Issue 51

Issue 52 The Amendment…By George William Curtis

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Volume 12 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2009

Issue 1 The Passing of the Year By Robert William Service

Issue 3 “Let Gaza Live” By Cynthia McKinney

America= Grows By Norman Brustein (1937) = Issue 6

When Are We Going to Get Over It?= By Andrew M. Manis Issue 7

Rosa Sat – A Song for Barack Ob= ama By Amy Dixon-Kolar Issue 8

Hunger By Robert Laurence Binyon Issue 10

Issue 11 Hunger By Leslie Powell

Issue 12 Statement on Withdrawal By Charles W. Freeman, Jr.

Pieces of a Man By Gil Scott-Hero= n Issue 13

Obama’s Failure on International Human Rights&= nbsp; By Vernellia Randall Issue 14

Issue 15 Running Backwards By M= umia Abu-Jamal

Now Let Me Fly (Monologue) Barbara Rose Johns Issue 16

Issue 18 Youth and the Post-Racial Myth …By Henry A. Giroux

If I Could Go Back…By Amber= Rose Riley Issue 20

Issue 21 Health Care: Protectionism Free Trad= ers Love…By Dean Baker

SEC Slaps Subprime King on Wrist = Issue 23

Issue 24 Pollution

! By= D.C. Vickers

Issue 25 Hypochondriac’s Grace…By Fred Moore

Perspectives on Closing Racial Wealth Gap…By Nina Jacinto Issue 26

Issue 27 The Fourth of July (1852) (Excerpts)&= #8230;By Frederick Douglass<= /span>

Issue 28 To Usward…By Gwendolyn= B. Bennett <= /span>

City Without Walls (Excerpts)…By Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) Issue 29

Issue 30 Obama’s Speech to the NAACP…By Tom Eley= <= /span>

We Wear the Mask…By Paul Laurence Dunbar Issue 31

Issue 32 Destruction of the Black Middle Class…By Barbara Ehrenrich and Dedrick Muhammed<= /a>

My Hope is in You…By Yousson N’Dour Issue 34

Issue 35 Keep Your Head Up…By Tim Fau= lkner

Innocent But Dead…By Bob Herbert Issue 36

Issue 37 US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World…By Paul Craig Roberts

We’re Number 37!...By Paul Hipp Issue 38

Issue 39 Will Israel Fall in Five Years?...By Jeff Gates<= span style=3D'color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><= /span>

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires…By Milt= on Bearden Issue 40

Issue 41 The New “Whitopia”R= 30;By Lewis Beale<= /span>

The Supreme Irony…By Junious Ricardo Stanton Issue 42

Issue 43 Zooming in on the Year’= ;s Biggest Hoax…By Robert Scheer

The Financo-State: Are you Ready = for the Next Crisis? By Paul Craig Roberts Issue 44

Issue 45 Second Bill of Rights (1944)…= ;By President Franklin D. Roosevelt

No on H.R. 3962…By US Rep. Dennis Kucinich Issue 46

Issue 47 Stopped Hating Thanksgiving = and Learned to be Afraid…By Prof. Robert Jensen<= span class=3DMsoHyperlink>

Black Professor Punches White Colleague…By Boyce Watkins, PhD Issue 48

Issue 49 American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Crimin= alized and Disposable…By Henry A. Giroux

Poor Thinking at the Top…By Dean Baker Issue 50

Issue 51 Depression on Wheels…B= y Bill Bonner

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Volume 11 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2008<= span class=3DMsoHyperlink>

Issue 1 Black People Thinking out Loud…By Nadra Enzi

Great Story...A = Baby's Hug…By Anonymous <= span style=3D'color:red'>Issue 2

Paradise Lost…By Doug Hollo= way Issue3

Issue 4 Foreclosed: State of the Dream 2008…By FairEconomy.org

One Bush Left Behind…By Greg Palast Issue 5

Issue 6 Who Will Clean Up the Elephant Crap? By Robert W. Barker

Mr. Crump…By W. C. Handy Issue 8

Issue 9 Obama’s Money Cartel…By Pam Martens=

Issue 11 Archangel: Hope and Black People..By John Burl Smith

Issue 12 Remaining Awake Through a Gr= eat Revolution...By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.=

Compulsory State Education…= By Memphis Blue Issue 14<= /a>

We didn’t mean to kill them…By B. Michael <= u>Issue 19<= /a>

Alessandro: A Fallen Loved One= 230;By Gilda Carbonaro Issue 21<= /a>

Issue 23 President Abraham Lincoln= 217;s Second Inaugural Address (Excerpt) <= span class=3DMsoHyperlink>

Issue 24 The Next President’s F= irst Task (Excerpt)…By Robert F. Kennedy

Issue 25 Impeachment: A Constitutional Duty…By Ram= sey Clark

Broken Laws, Broken Lives…By Major General Antonio Taguba (USA, Ret.) Issue 26<= /a>

Pantoum of the Great Depression…By Donald Justice Issue 27<= /a>

Issue 30 The Right to a Job, Food and Water, and Housing By Dave Welsh

Issue 31 Time Will Tell By Joseph Nyerere

Issue 32 CNN’s Black in America By Dr. B= oyce Watkins

Issue 33 ’68 (Excerpts) By Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Issue 37 KERWIN By Maurice Di<= /span>

Issue 40 Excerpt: Chapter One “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism” By Andrew J. Bacevich=

Issue 41 Predatory Lenders’ Par= tner in Crime By Eliot Laurence Spitzer

Issue 42 Behind the Money Crash By Mu= mia Abu-Jamal=

Issue 43 Communication Professors Spe= ak Out: Campaign Stoking the Fir= es of Racism

Issue 44 Be Angry At the Sum By John Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Issue 46 An Open Letter to Obama by J= oyce Braddell<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:black;text-= decoration: none;text-underline:none'>

Issue 48 Sacrificing Reason By Victor Gonzalez<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style";color:black;text-= decoration: none;text-underline:none'>

Issue 51 Blighted Christmas: This Year Give the Truth By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

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Volume 10 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2007<= span class=3DMsoHyperlink>

Democrat's De Facto Pardon Bush et al …By = Karl Sanchez Issue 2

You're Fired!&n= bsp; By Min. Paul Scott <= u>Issue 3

Why Just Ask the Donkey By Hafiz Issue 5

PNAC Letter to Bill Clinton Issue 10

The Patriots By Dr. Bob Bowman Issue 12

Where Have All the Leaders Gone? By= Lee Iacocca Issue 16

Contradiction By Domino Ca$h Issue 17

Eurocentric Curricula Damage Black Students By Carl Noldon Issue 22

Message from the Front Line By STEP Issue 26

A Letter to America By Ronald G. Auguste Issue 27

The Legacy By Nancey Greggs Issue 28

NAACP or NWA: Buryin’ the “C” Word…By Paul Scott&n= bsp; Issue 29

Letter to Judge J.P. Mauffray…By Dr. Donald H. Smith Issue 31

Strange Fruit…By Abel Meeropol George W. Bush is a Saint…By Victor Forsythe Issue 34

The Forgotten Road Warriors…By Louis S. Diggs Issue 36

Prisoner…By Lucky Dube Issue 45

In Jerusalem…By Mahmoud Darwish Issue 47

Eight Hour Song (1865)…By Charles Haynes Issue 48

Olive Trees…By Iron Sheik = Issue 51

Cancer Ignorance…By Drs. Carol and William Kelley Issue 52

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Volume 9 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2006<= span class=3DMsoHyperlink>

Seeds of Deception (Excerpts)…By Jeffrey M. Smith Issue 1

Georgia Black Chamber Remarks…By Cynthia McKinney Issue 2

The Right to Vote…By Jesse Jackson, Jr. Issue 4

Hamas behind the wheel…By Raja Chemayel Issue 5

Addicts…By Judge Greg Mathis Issue 6

A Homecoming (Excerpt)…By James Carroll Issue 9

The Ministry of Propaganda…By David Ray Issue 10

White Nationalism Put U In Bondage…By Autum Ashante Issue 12

CONFORMation…By Vashon Hinton Issue 13<= /a>

The Human Abstract…By William Blake 1757-1827 Issue 14

Let's Impeach the President…By Neil Young Issue 21

Unemployment...By Eliot Khalil Wilson Issue 22<= /a>

Nanny…Lorna Goodison Issue 23<= /a>

My Dad…Performed by Paul Peterson = Issue 24

Does the Pro-Israel Lobby work against U.S. interests? By Mohamed Elmasry Issue 26

Obesity…By Robert William Service (1874 - 1958) Issue 27

Positivity..By Stevie Wonder (Featuring Aisha Morris) Issue 28

The Silence of the Pig: On the Cusp of WWIII…By Lynne Glasner Issue 29

La Belle Dame sans Merci…By John Keats (1795-1821) Issue 30

Dear Commandante Castro…By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Issue 35

Why Republicans Rip the Voting Rights Act…By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Issue 38

The Devil’s Recipe (Excerpts from UN Speech)…By Hugo Chavez Issue 39

Using Reparations to Repair Black Health…By Vernellia R. Randall Issue 40

Pharmaceutical Tests on Prison Population Another Form of Modern-Day Slavery?

...By Tonyaa Weathersbee Issue 42

Cosmetics, Capitalism and African Women (Excerpt)…By Kathy Muhammad Issue 43

The Politics of Oil and Poverty (Excerpts)…By Emira Woods Issue 45

(Excerpt) Notebook of a Return to the Native Land…By Aimé Césaire Issue 47

Police Brutality …By Ank Justice SteadySpear Issue 48

The Dollar Melts as Iraq Burns…By James K. Galbraith Issue 49

Happy Holidays - Perhaps Not…By Rodney D. Coates Issue 51

= No Not Another Bubble Test For Me!...By Rona= ld A. Mac Arthur Issue 52=

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Volume 8 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2005<= /span>

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The Balloon…By Bubba Lee Issue 1

O Black and Unknown Bards…By James Wel= don Johnson (1871-1938) Issue 3

Barbarians Are Coming…By I. K. Shukla Issue 4=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no4\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>That Damn Bottle …By Stacy Peterson Issue 7<= /span>

Across the Lines…By Tracy Chapman Issue 9<= /span>

Jones v. Mayer (1968)…By William O. Douglas Issue 10=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no10\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Woman And War…By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) Issue 11=

On Napster and the Music Industry…Commentary and Excerpts from Interview with Prince Issue 13

I’m the Son of Viet Nam…By James A. Stelly Issue 14

Not to Forgive Wasting Time…By Al Globu= s Issue 22=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no22\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Lynching (Excerpt)…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moo= rer (1907) Issue 24=

Mercy Mercy Me…By Marvin Gaye Issue 26

40 Acres and a Mule…By Oscar Brown, Jr. Issue 27

Most Vulnerable…By Buny= an Bryant Issue 29=

The Goodness of Whiteness…By Shabaka Tecumseh Issue 31

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no31\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>a revolutionary coalition…By Jimi Pocius Issue 32=

Hippocratic Oath -- Modern Version…By Louis Lasagna Issue 34

The 1913 Massacre…By Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) Issue 35=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no35\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>High Water Everywhere (Part 1)…By Charley Patton Issue 36=

Imhotep…By Yusef Komunyakaa Issue 37

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no37\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>New Orleans…By Chuck Perkins Issue 38=

Blaming Poverty On The Poor…By Josephine Dixon-Banks Issue 39

The Many Evils of Inflation (Excerpt)…By Hans F. Sennholz Issue 42

Party Pity…By Thistle <= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv8no46\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Issue 46

Who Are These People?...Lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Tonio K. Issue 47

Doomsday Politics…By Bill Moyers &= nbsp; Issue 48

Vaccination Condemned…By Ian Sinclair Issue 50

Why We Owe Them…By Carol Chehade Issue 52

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Volume 7 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2004<= /span>

= What Ever Happened To Peace On Earth …By Willie Nelson Issue 1<= /span>

S= heep to the Slaughter…By Paris Issue 6<= /span>

W= ill they ever return?...By Rodney Coates Issue 8<= /span>

Killin' Time…By Mike Bidwell Issue 11

It's Hypocrisy, Not Democracy…By Steeleyes Issue 12

The Lynching…Claude McKay (1891-1948) Issue 14

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)…Erich Fromm Issue 15

Excerpt from The Slave Ship…By Antonio Frederico de Castro Alves (1847-1871) Issue 16<= /span>

Sympathy…By Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872- 1906) &nb= sp; Issue 17

The Death of Emmett Till (1963)…By Bob Dylan Issue 18

High School Castes…By Derek J. Barbee Issue 19

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv7no19\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>An Essay on Man: Epistle II (Excerpt)…= By Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Issue 20=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv7no20\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>The Jungle (Excerpt from Chapter 26)…By= Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) Issue 21=

The Progress of Liberty…By James Madison Bell (1826-1902) Issue 23

A Politician's Conscience…By John M. Swails Issue 24

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv7no24\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Wars…By Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Issue 25=

"Ethnic Cleansing" for Kosovo…By Dr. Charles Zender Issue 26

Canadian Status Quo…By James Bredin &nbs= p; Issue 27

Letter to Mr. Cosby: My Name's Not Crap…By Kiah Thomas Issue 28

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv7no28\.htm\0022 \\l \0022vene\0022 "'>Accidental Terrorist…By Unknown US Soldier in Iraq Issue 32=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv7no32\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Sheeple…By John Langley Issue 33=

Traffic Noise - Cacophony - Urban Sprawl…By James Crowden Issue

Democracy's @ a Crossroads…By Drew Dellinger   Issue 41

The Battle-Field…By William Cullen Bryant    Issue 44=

From The Anarchiad, On Paper Money…By The Hartford Wits   Issue 49<= /span>

For the Love of Money…By The O'Jays   Issue 50

For My People…By Margaret Abigail Walker    Issue 52

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Volume 6 …………………………̷= 0;……………….2003<= /span>

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About Me: This song is from Bob Marley's album "Survival." Marley's most political album, it debuted at a time of increased political conflict in Africa. The US leg of the "Survival&qu= ot; tour opened at Harlem's Apollo Theater in New York. During Black History Mo= nth, Rastafarians will celebrate the life of this gifted musician. For more about events celebrating Marley's gift of music and consciousness, see http://www.bobmarley.com/songs/songs.cgi?africaunite.

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About Me: Stanton hosts the Digital Underground = at http://www.thedish.org/www.NewBlackCity.com<= /span> on Sundays from 12 Noon to 2 PM Eastern. According to Stanton, "The Digital Underground facilitates the mental decolonization process; we never insult your intelligence. Free your mind, the rest will follow." An accomplished writer, Stanton's essays on contemporary issues appear in many newspapers and magazines serving the black community. Contact Stanton at jrswriter@comcast.net.<= /span>

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<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no5\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Let's Burn the Confederate Flag

By brew@thedailybrew.com

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§ § Hip-Hopping a Six Spot § §

By John Burl Smith= <= /span>

About Me: The DISH echos her father's sentiments. It is an honor to tell the world of such a treasure. Jamia has been singing since the age of 2. An exceptional reader,= she loves to sing, dance and act. She has performed on Showtime at the Apollo, appeared on Tonight with Jay Leno and shared the stage with a host of noted artists. Jamia Simone Nash is a rare talent. For more about this little songbird, log onto the World Wide Web; the keywords are Jamia Simone Nash. = <= o:p>

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§ § Facing West from California's Shores<= /i> § §

By Walt Whitman<= /span>

About Me: US poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) knew = John O'Sullivan; his first short stories were published in the Democratic Rev= iew. Whitman supported the Free-Soil Party, which opposed the expansion of slave= ry and Southern influence. Yet, Whitman embraced manifest destiny and envision= ed the US encompassing Central America and the Caribbean. Whitman wrote in a newspaper article, "'manifest destiny' certainly points to the speedy annexation of Cuba by the United States." (Source: Quoted in David S. = Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography (New York: Knopf, 1995), 136)= <= /span>

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Strange Fruit<= /span>

Written by Abel Meeropol= <= /span>

Performed by Billie Holiday= <= /span>

About Me: Jazz critic Leonard Feather called "Strange Fruit," with its haunting lyrics about a lynching, "= ;a significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism." Abel Meeropol, a white Jewish teacher in a New York City high school, wrote it. Known for her solemn ballads and heart-wrenching blues, Billie Holiday reluctantly debuted it before a stunned crowd at Cafe Societ= y, New York City's only integrated club. Her performance sparked a much needed debate about lynching and the repressive policies of Jim Crow segregation. = The searing lyrics often upset club patrons and it became a weapon in continuing anti-lynching campaigns. In a 1971 interview Meeropol commented: "I wr= ote 'Strange Fruit' because I hate lynching, and I hate injustice, and I hate t= he people who perpetuate it." Used in 1972 Paramount film 'Lady Sings The Blues," Holiday recorded "Strange Fruit" on April 20, 1939.<= /span>

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The People's Artist= = <= /span>

By John Burl Smith= <= /span>

About Me: "I knew from the time I was very = young that I wanted to be an artist." These are the words of Elizabeth Catle= tt, an 87-year-old sculptor and printmaker. Preempted almost fifty years ago, Catlett is recognized as one of the most important black artists of the twentieth century. Ranked with Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, this ex-patriot rose above American obscurity to find success and acceptance in Mexico. Purposely, reflecting the plight of black and Mexican woman, the artistic value of Catlett's work was suppressed.

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The Road Not Taken= <= /span>

By Robert Frost<= /span>

About Me: Frost, Robert (1874-1963) was born in California. Named after Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate army du= ring the Civil War (1861-1865), Frost drew inspiration from the New England countryside. The above poem deals with an everyday quandary. Whether it is = to stand on principle or not, or a less complex decision involving dual routes= to a physical destination, we often must choose between mutually exclusive pat= hs. A 19th century bard, Frost's poetry is as relevant for today as it was when written.

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What's Going On?= <= /span>

Performed by Marvin Gaye= <= /span>

About Me: Written by Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye a= nd Renaldo Benson, this is the title song from Marvin Gaye's landmark album, <= em>What's Going On. By far his most successful album, the 1971 recording revolutionized soul music by freeing it from the limitation of simple love ballads to include a wide spectrum of topics, including the formerly taboo realm of political commentary. To match the shift in subject matter, Gaye created a new musical style that continues to influence performers. Recorde= d at the height of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, What's Goin= g On gave voice to the socioeconomic and political concerns of a generation.

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E Pluribus Unum= <= /span>

by The Last Poets= <= /span>

About Me: From the group's album Chastisemen= t (1972), the complete text of E Pluribus Unum is available at http://www.thedish.org/www.thedish.ws= under Venue for an Artist.

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Invictus

By William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

About Me: English poet, critic and journalist, W= . E. Henley edited several popular magazines, wrote poetry and collaborated with Robert Louis Stevenson on four plays. Invictus is a pledge to fight the unfortunate circumstance of change, which in his case was illness; it is required reading for students of English literature. <= /b>

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War

By Edwin Starr<= /span>

About Me: Recorded by Motown singer Edwin Starr,= War was a number one hit during the height of the Vietnam conflict (1970). The legendary soul singer died this month at his home in England. Starr was 61. Since April is poetry month, War is an excellent choice for the current state of affairs and a fitting tribute to an artist for peace who h= as gone home, but whose words will live on.

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Mississippi Goddam!<= /span>

By Nina Simone<= /span>

About Me: The "high priestess" of soul= , the incomparable Ms. Nina Simone was born on February 21, 1933. She died on Apr= il 20, 2003 at her home in France. Simone was 70. The out-spoken soul singer l= eft America because of racism. A close friend of Malcolm X and Dr Martin Luther King, she often sang at civil rights marches in the 1960s. Her 1963 Mississ= ippi Goddam voiced her frustration with the slow pace of obtaining equal rights = for blacks in America.

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Excerpt from "The Color Line in America"<= /a>

By Frederick Douglass= <= /span>

About Me: After the Civil War and Reconstruction, blacks remained second class citizens. State legislation and Supreme Court decisions neutered the constitutional amendments. Discrimination limited bl= acks in almost every socioeconomic arena. Frederick Douglass addressed these fac= ts in his speech of September 14, 1883, and called on blacks to strike a blow = for their freedom, because 'liberty given is never so precious as liberty sought for and fought for." (Source: Speech by Douglass from Three Addresses = on the Relations Subsisting Between the White and Colored People in the United States, Washington, 1886, pp.3-23.)<= /span>

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Mother, I Love You More= <= /span>

By Nguyen Thi Lan= <= /span>

About Me: Husband and father of three, Nguyen Th= i Lan works for World Vision International on two projects-- Children With Diffic= ulty Moving (CWDM) and Let Them Walk Again (LTWA). Thi Lan comes from a poor Vietnamese family. His mother worked hard to raise 10 children. This poem is dedicated to her and all devoted and loving mothers everywhere.

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Denial<= /span>

By crystal cartier= <= /span>

About Me: Crystal Cartier is one of the most pro= lific writers on the Internet. In addition to being a poet, she is the author of a new novel "Curse of the Vendetta," which is available wherever bo= oks are sold or on her website http://www.thedish.org/www.crystalcartier.com. A songwriter, her music can be heard at http://www.thedish.org/www.cdbaby.com/ccartier. Apropos, her motto is, "If I can help someone as I journey through lif= e, then my living will not be in vain."

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O Captain! My Captain!= <= /span>

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

About Me: Walt Whitman was a poet, teacher and journalist. He founded the weekly Long-Islander, and later edited a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. In 1848, he became editor of the New Orleans Crescent. It was in New Orleans that he experienced firsth= and the viciousness of slavery. On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of 1848, = he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the Brooklyn Freeman.

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Fruit of the Flower= <= /span>

By Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

About Me: Personifying the diverse talent that b= ecame known as the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen was born in New York. Raise= d in a Methodist parsonage, he started writing poetry at age fourteen. A New York University graduate, his poems were published in magazines from The Cri= sis to Harper's. He won the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize and other awards for Ballad of the Brown Girl. Harper published Color (1923), his first volume of poetry. He received his master's degree from Harvard, and published Copper Sun (1927). Blacks were highly critical of his sec= ond book of poetry because it failed to adequately treat the subject of race. Unlike other Harlem Renaissance artists, Cullen was raised and educated in a primarily white environment. His experiences differed from those of the lar= ger black community, a difference reflected in his art. His works include <= span style=3D'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Black Christ (1929) and= his novel, One Way to Heaven (1932). (Sources: http://www.thedish.org/www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry= /cullen_countee.html and http://www.thedish.org/www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/cullen.htm= l)

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A Black Man Talks of Reaping

By Arna Bontemps= <= /span>

About Me: Author of 25 books of poetry, history, biography, fiction and anthologies, Bontemps was a major figure of the Harl= em Renaissance. He served as head librarian at Fisk University (1969 -1972) and curator of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters at Yale University. (Sources: http://aalbc.com/authors/arna.htm and= http://www.thedish.org/www.math.buffalo.edu/= )

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§§ Issue 25 §§

The Lynching and If We Must Die=

By Claude McKay<= /span>

About Me: "The Lynching" and "If = We Must Die" are from Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows (1922). The Jamaican-bo= rn American became a prominent figure in the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Known f= or his poems and novels of black life, first in Jamaica and later in the United States, McKay used traditional forms to express unfamiliar ideas and themes, many of which related to the black experience. (Sources: http://www.thedish.org/www.poetry-archive.com/m/mckay_c= laude.html)=

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= What to the Slave is 4th of July?

= By Frederick Douglass= <= /span>

About Me: The above are selected excerpts from a= July 5, 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass. Born a slave in 1818, when Douglass d= ied in 1895, he was recognized as the foremost black spokesperson of the 19th century. A human rights activist, orator, author, journalist, publisher and social reformer, Douglass has been called the father of the civil rights movement.

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= Slave Driver…By Bob Marley   Issue 27=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no27\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>On Liberty and Slavery…By George Moses Horton<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>    Issue 28=

= Booker T. and W. E. B…By Dudley Randall   Issue 29=

= Slave Auction….By Frances Ellen Watkins Harpe= r    Issue 30=

The Invisible Man (For Ellison*) By Conrad Kent Rivers   Issue 31

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no31\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>From Harlem Gallery…By Melvin B. Tolson    Issue 32=

The Debt…By Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)   Issue 33

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no33\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Imagination   Issue 34<= /span>

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no34\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Walls…By R.L. Brown   Issue 35=

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no35\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Mending Wall…By Robert Frost Issue 36=

Excerpts from America's Global Role…By George Soros Issue 37

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no37\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Saturday's Child…By Countee Cullen (1903-1946)= Issue 38=

Man in Black…By Johnny Cash   Issue 39

No More Chain Gang…By Boney M &nbs= p; Issue 40

“The Phantom-Wooer"…By Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) Issue 41

Death (1944)…By Thomas Merton   Issue 42

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no42\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>To War …By John Mills Issue 43=

Beautiful and Free ... Naturally…By Leslie B. Spann Issue 44

The Beat of Black Wings…By Joni Mitchell= Issue 45

Giving Thanks    Issue 46

From the Dark Tower (To Charles S. Johnson)…By Countee Cullen (1903-1946)    Issue 47

40 Acres in a Prison…By Crystal Cartier    Issue 48

<= span style=3D'mso-field-code:" HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.thedish\.org\/TheDI= SHv6no48\.htm\0022 \\l \0022venue\0022 "'>Genome Blues…By Shabaka Tecumseh   Issue 49=

Inferred Racism…By John N. Smith  &= nbsp; Issue 50

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

Venue for an Artist ……. Volume 5 (2002)

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