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Shirley Chisholm

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    April 11, 2011

    Brooklyn 1973: Gunmen, Hostages, and the Revolution

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 25, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 Two days in Brooklyn: 'Better than the Bowl' by Clark Whelton The rain had stopped but the el tracks overhead were still dripping. The cop behind the steel support pillar looked up as the water hit h ... More >>

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    February 11, 2011

    Adam Clayton Powell, 1908-1972

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 13, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 15 'Fire in his mouth, trumpets in his throat' By Dalton James He had kept the faith. And now, in the refuge of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell was nestled amid a flower garden of wrea ... More >>

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    January 17, 2011

    Shirley Chisholm Dares to Run for President

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 48 'They will remember a 100-pound woman' By Mary Breasted The tiny glittering black woman stood utterly at attention. She wore a suit of stiff brocade that fitted her shoulders so snugly it gave her a f ... More >>

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    Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror

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    Foxy Brown Wimps Out on Brooklyn's Don Diva

    Inga Marchand blows a chance for real insight into both the world's insanity and hers

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    February 6, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Super Tuesday Hangover

    Inga Marchand blows a chance for real insight into both the world's insanity and hers

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    January 22, 2008

    Letters

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    August 29, 2006

    Brooklyn's Nasty Race Race

    Color and power collide in a historically black district

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    February 7, 2006

    Horoscope

    Color and power collide in a historically black district

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    January 17, 2006

    Council Priorities

    The new City Council Speaker doles out some surprising assignments

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    October 18, 2005

    1968

    The new City Council Speaker doles out some surprising assignments

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    November 30, 2004

    On a New High, Sharpton Hits a New Low

    TV's Democratic minister of 'moral values' takes a hypocritical plunge

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    September 14, 2004

    Film

    TV's Democratic minister of 'moral values' takes a hypocritical plunge

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    February 10, 2004

    We Need You

    It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

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    January 27, 2004

    Supersize Me

    Sundance docs: Board youth, iMacs, Big Macs and big mouths—who in Tarnation is next

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    December 2, 2003

    Sharpton in the Rainbow's Shadow

    Reverend Al slips and slides as political landscape shifts

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    May 7, 2002

    Close-Up On: Bedford-Stuyvesant

    Reverend Al slips and slides as political landscape shifts

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    August 8, 2000

    Steal This Election

    The Mugging of Councilmember Una Clarke by Brooklyn’s Black Political Elite

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