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...Mainstream America has shown little understanding lately of the patriotism that a lot of black people practice. Black love of country is often far more robust and complicated than the lapel-pin nationalism some citizens swear by. Barack Obama hinted at this when he declared in Montana a few weeks ago, "I love this country not because it's perfect but because we've always been able to move it closer to perfection. Because through revolution and slavery ... generations of Americans have shown their love of country by struggling and sacrificing and risking their lives to bring us that much...
...hold twice-daily prayer meetings with the children and to reunite nursing mothers with the 77 kids who are under age 2. Prosecutors worried that the prayer meetings might be used to influence the children "in a way to impede the ongoing investigation," but Walther's suggestion that mainstream Mormons might serve as neutral monitors was turned down flat by the official church. Church spokesman Scott Trotter told the Salt Lake Tribune that the beliefs of the FLDS long ago diverged from orthodox Mormonism and, "in fact, many in these isolated communities view us with some hostility as part...
Cynthia Gordy, associate editor of Essence Magazine, a lifestyle publication for black women, says that the contest promotes a “balance in mainstream hip-hop’s messages.” Part of this balance involves the gender representation in mainstream...
...seems like small (crazy) potatoes after Stalin’s enormous (crazy) feast.Now, when Harvard undergraduates invoke the father of communism, it’s not as a political herald but as a conversation piece for social studies concentrators. Even then, Marx is a little too mainstream; when trying to communicate one’s extraordinary acquaintance with great thinkers, his monosyllabic moniker gets lost amid the sea of Walter Benjamins and Jürgen Habermases (the more strange accents, the more intellectual firepower).Today, striving for revolution seems a bit anachronistic: one student called Marxist ideology...
...hardships faced during the American-led sanctions of 1991-2003, which Antoon refers to as “genocidal.”Overall, Al-Damluji and Antoon both hope that Contemporary Iraqi Film will serve as a platform to present issues not normally addressed by the mainstream American media. “After five years of war and hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, Americans know very little about Iraq and Iraqis beyond the depressingly simplistic,” Antoon says. “It’s high time for that to change...