Clarence Lang
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Cruel Summer

Events this summer have further demonstrated a cruel irony of African American life in the glare of the nation’s first black presidency. Specifically,

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Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A LaborOnline Forum

Clarence Lang, Forum Organizer: Since the late 1970s, neoliberalism has emerged as the main political-economic organizing principle in the United States and globally.

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A “Death” the Whole World Should See

I saw a fascinating documentary recently at a local film festival. The name of it is “A Band Called Death,” and it is

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In Memoriam: Robert Chrisman

I first encountered The Black Scholar in the mid-1990s when I was an undergraduate seeking insight to the quandaries of campus race relations,

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Black History in the Glare of the Second Obama Administration

It may be clichéd to remark that the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama, and his historic re-election, were momentous events not only

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“Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom”: Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people converged at the Lincoln Memorial in a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The

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The 47 Percent, Reconsidered

No, this isn’t another commentary on Mitt Romney’s denunciations of the so-called “47 percent” of Americans who, according to him, freeload off the

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Claiming a Working-Class Mandate

The U.S. voting public faced a stark decision on November 6, 2012.  On the one hand, they weighed the benefits of a program

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