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Fatimah Ali: Saving the Derrions & the Rolands - 10/13/2009

HUNDREDS of young people are murdered every year across the nation by angry young black men who are lost. Like the four teens accused in the senseless beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert, the honors student caught in a turf war on his way home from school in Chicago last month, the perpetrators of these crimes have no regard for life. Minister Louis F

 

Fatimah Ali: Earth Mother - 09/29/2009

IHAD A nightmare a few weeks ago where I was flying around like the Rocketeer, trying to escape people who were chasing me. Earlier in the day, I'd run into a local pol who'd berated me about what felt was the negativity of several columns I'd written. I haven't written anything mean about you, I shot back, defensively.

 

Fatimah Ali: Americans behaving badly - 09/15/2009

WHETHER it's South Carolina GOP Rep. Joe Wilson's angry outburst during President Obama's address to Congress last week, or Serena Williams' ouster from the U.S. Open for cussing out an official or Kanye West's meltdown at the MTV awards, Americans are losing their cool. And although it makes great headlines here, we have a very bad rap internationally.