It Is Time For Black Americans To Expand Concerns

From: The Philadelphia Tribune | Date: October 18, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Von Lipsey
Philadelphia Tribune, The
10-18-1994
It Is Time For Black Americans To Expand Concerns.

By Von Lipsey

One consistent feature of our world in the 1990s is the tide of international crisis -- it floods our lives almost daily with haunting and pitiful media images. And while the preponderance of the faces in those images are Black, much of Black America's intellectual and political power remains focused principally on the plethora of domestic cares. Certainly issues at home are compelling and immediate to our interests; yet, the current tide of world events indicates that it is time ...

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