Listed below are essays on issues in the
dialogue on race from Mr. John Burl Smith's unique perspective.
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Volume
11……………………..2008
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Issue 1
Update on Grady
Issue 2 Going Down Jericho Road
South Carolina A Real Question Issue 3
Commemorating the Ending of Slavery Issue 4
A Giant that Walks Among Men Issue 8
The Rebirth of Soulville, USA Issue 8
Issue 9 An
Invisible Giant
Issue 10 The
Invaders – The Beginning
Archangel: Hope
and Black People Issue 11
Education and the New Dark Age Issue 13
Issue 16 Ella Baker
Center for Human Rights
Issue 16 Reflections
from King Week in Memphis
Issue 17 The
Dream Reborn Conference
Issue 17 FIRST
Robotics: A Kids’ Games
Issue 17 What is
the Green Economy All About?
Parity Lost
Issue 18
Swastika, Nooses and
the Star of David Issue 19
Redding’s Family
Visits Stax Soulville USA Issue 19
Issue 22 A Deserving Family Honored
STAX: The
Family Issue 22
A Chance to Heal
Issue 23
Issue 24 Dream World
or Green World
A Blue-Green
Alliance is Born Issue 24
How We Got
Here: A Human Story Issue 25
Issue 26 Along the
Way America Lost Its Way
A Brief Window of
Hope Issue 28
US and Bioenergy
Company Torpedo Food Summit Issue 29
Volume
10 ……………………..2007
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¨Who Does He Serve? Issue 1¨
¨After Say It Loud Issue 3¨
¨Deception…Issue 4¨
¨Death Throes of War… Issue 4¨
¨Generals or
Civilians: Who’s in Charge? Issue 5
¨
¨Building a Political
Base Issue
6 ¨
Understanding the Question Issue 7
A Friend Issue 8
Just Shoot the Number Issue 9
Blood-for-Oil
Issue 10
Illusion and Freedom
Issue 13
Hole in the Donut
Issue 14
2008: Year of
the Train Issue 15
Sobering Truth in SOBA Issue 18
It’s All About the Debt Issue 19
The Real Story Behind the Assassination Issue
19
From the 13th Amendment to Abu
Ghraib Issue 20
Texas: A
Hellhole of Abuse Issue 20
Copper John’s Healing Jewelry Issue 21
Bebop Past and Future Issue 21
A Disguised Language
Issue 24
From Disguised Language to Hip Hop Issue
24
Self-Perpetuating Denial Issue 25
Women of Walton County Revisited Issue
25
Stealing Australia
Issue 26
Thinly Veiled Racism
Issue 26
Native Americans Déjà Vu Aborigines Issue 26
Ironic Issue 27
A Present Day
Irony Issue 27
Ebony Star Shines
Over Wimbledon Issue 28
Buried But Not
Gone Issue 29
Michael Vick and the 3/5 Compromise Issue 30
Barry Bombs 756! Issue
32
War with Iran:
Déjà vu Afghanistan and Iraq Issue 33
Deception…Issue
34
Race: A Power
Relationship Issue 35
Power or Powerless Issue
35
Bush Refuses to Honor a Black War Hero! Issue 37
The Palestinian Story: A Case of Slow Genocide Issue 38
Words to the Jena
Movement Issue 39
More Words for the Jena 6 Movement Issue 41
Dying is Never
Enough Issue 42
Toxic Toys: A Family Dilemma Issue 43
Greed Pushes the
Bottom Line Issue 43
What Do We
Value: Tradition or Our Children Issue 43
More Words for the
Jena 6 Movement Issue 45
The Black Man Film
Festival Issue 45
Keeping the March
for Justice Real Issue 47
An Emerging
Idea: Jobs with Justice Issue 48
The Gift that
Keeps on Stealing Issue 50
The Cost of
Misdiagnosis May Be Alzheimer’s Issue 50
Toxic Toys: Grinch Steals More Than Christmas Issue 50
Peace Outside But
War Underneath Issue 51
Super
Ballerina or Jackboot Mistress Issue (903)
The Face of the
Future Issue (905)
Full of Democracy
or Stuffed Bush Issue (906)
Sounding the
Alarm Issue (908)
Reflections: The
Chisholm Trail Issue (909)
Cave Man vs
Humanity Issue (912)
Atlanta
Vibe…Poetry Month 2006 Issue (915)
Hood Notes…A
Memphis Wonder Issue (918)
Atlanta Vibe…A
Time 2 Love Issue (918)
Mother’s Apple
Pie Issue (919)
Science Stranger
Than Fiction Issue (927)
Living Above or
Below the Half Mark Issue (928)
Arabia or Arrakis
(Dune) Issue (931)
Atlanta
Vibe…Frankie was A-Mazing Issue (931)
Three Fifths
Compromised Again Issue (934)
Retrospective on
Heroism Issue (936)
Heritage of a
Totally Lawless Nation Issue (941)
Hood Notes…Hunger
in the Land of Plenty Issue (946)
Fighting in
Nigeria Issue (946)
Weighing in On
Iraq Issue (947)
Warred Upon While
Black Issue (948)
Blood for Oil: The
Ghost of Christmas Past Issue (951)
¨ Politics Y2K5…Awash in Red Ink Issue (801) ¨
¨Hood
Notes…Fibroids: Menace or Malign Issue (802) ¨
Fibroids: A
Treatment Epidemic Issue (802)
The New Negro
Movement Issue (803)
Atlanta
Vibe…Retrograde Hip Hop Issue (803)
Opium War or a
Sliced Up Melon Issue (804)
¨Hood Notes…Academic Freedom or Neocon Agenda Issue (805) ¨
The Eisenhower
Prophecy or Mills' Elite Issue (805)
Déjà vu Inflation
Redistribution Issue (806)
Black History
Cipher: World of Tomorrow Issue (808)
Legacy of Slave
Revolts Issue (809)
Louisiana Slave
Revolt (1811) Issue 809
Atlanta Vibe…A
Poetry Month Preview Issue (812)
¨Hood Notes…Missing the Point Issue (814) ¨
Ringing Like A
Bell Issue (817)
Atlanta Vibe…Who
Can Stop the Rain? Issue (818)
A Tale of Two
Fugitives Issue (819)
Post Reality
Syndrome Issue (820)
¨Fanon and the Colonial Mind-Set Issue (822)¨
Hood Notes…Hotel
Rwanda Issue (822)
¨News
You Use…Campaign Against Mercury Issue (826) ¨
Atlanta Vibe…Our
Man "We" Issue (826)
¨Minstrels, Blackface and Movies Issue (827) ¨
DISH-ing IT Up
Hot!...On Tiy-E Issue (827)
¨The Road to Ruin
Issue (833) ¨
Politics
Y2K5…DeKalb: A Tax Grab Issue (833)
Three-Fifths
Compromise Healthcare Issue (834)
¨Politics Y2K5…USA: A Racist Society Issue (836) ¨
Left Behind: A
Study in Racism Issue (836)
¨
Desperate Hours at
Charity Issue (837)
Hood
Notes…Blackwater KKK Without Sheets Issue (838)
¨Hood
Notes…A Revolutionary Reality Issue (849)
Return to
Reality Issue (849)
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¨Politics Y2K5…To BARDA for You Issue (850) ¨
It’s Just A
Piece of Paper Issue (851)
Freeman and
Black History Issue (852)
¨Politics Y2K4…Neo-Colonialism/Slavery Issue 1¨
Atlanta Vibe…While
Black Issue 1
Hood Notes…Classic
While Black Issue 2
¨Honor: The Poor People's Campaign Issue 3¨
¨Turnout 75 %...On Reluctant Democrats Issue 4¨
¨2004 Word of the Year: Obfuscate Issue 5¨
Hood Notes…Classic
While Black: NY Update Issue 5
¨Turnout 75 %...Electability Issue 6¨
¨Turnout 75%...Amending the US Constitution Issue 9¨
¨Technological Unemployment Manifested Issue 10¨
The SS Retirement
Myth Issue 11
MARTA
Tax Sucks.Com…Update on GRTA Takeover Issue 14
Plausible
Deniability Issue 15
Hip-Hop
Transformation Issue 16
Speaking Against
Occupation Issue 17
Hood
Note…Lynching or Suicide?
Issue 18
Boomers, Gen-Xers
and Hip-Hoppers Issue 24
Politics
Y2K4…Killing Fields Issue 26
The Oily Truth about
Sudan Issue 26
Marching isn't
Worth a Penny Issue 27
The UN and
Preemptive War Issue 29
Ghost of Campaigns
Past Issue 33
Politics Y2K4…Internet v. Corporate Media Issue 37
Dèjá Vu Empowerment Zones Issue 37
Politics Y2K4…The Great Train Robbery Issue 40
Politics
Y2K4…Dred is Not Dead Issue 42
The Cooking Oil
Dilemma Issue 45
Women's Health
Initiative Issue 46
Greenhouse Gases
the Corps Issue 47
News You Use…Time for You 2 Wake Up Issue 49
News You Use…Our
New World Order: The Terminal Issue 52
¨ A Year's Look at Serena Issue 1¨
¨ T.H.I.N.C. Education Issue 2 ¨
¨ Welfare: A Race Code Issue 3 ¨
Logic and Problem Solving Issue 3
¨ Serena on Top Down Under Issue 4 ¨
¨ SPAM-ing the First Amendment Issue 5 ¨
Hip-Hopping a Six Spot Issue 7