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Racism In America? Or Good Versus Evil?

One might even argue America’s past history of racial divide,
I see a final battle of good versus evil & you are on which side?

(LOS ANGELES) - Americans frequently dismiss the realities of our existence; our unmistakable footprint on the earth. It is what it is, and there is no way around it.

We are a nation founded in slavery and the ownership of human beings, and regardless of how widespread this problem was in history, throughout the world, the U.S. was the last western nation, to abolish it.

Philadelphia Swim Club (Are they the only one?)

62 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier line,
We’re supposed have racial harmony, things should be fine...

(LOS ANGELES) - Discrimination lawsuits recently had a serious impact on a swim club in historic Philadelphia. The 'Valley Club as things turn out, had rejected 56 mostly black and Hispanic youngsters, claiming that the move was based on a lack of swimming ability.

The business was recently sold off at a bankruptcy auction.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

"NBC News reports a 120 million-repair contract for Walter Reed with IAP,
Seeing the deplorable conditions that company’s initials should become IED"

(LOS ANGELES) - It has been a while since we wrote about the Walter Reed Medical Center, which had been and still is at the center of the ongoing controversy regarding the treatment of our injured warriors.

Regardless of their feelings about the wars overseas, most Americans agree that military veterans should be properly cared for.

Lena Horne (In Memorial) R.I.P.

With her passes a great part of an era in American music and entertainment.

(LOS ANGELES) - The unforgettable Lena Mary Calhoun Horne died today at the age of 92. She will always be remembered as an iconic American singer, actress, and dancer.

Lena Horne first joined the mike chorus of the infamous Cotton Club at the age of sixteen, where she became a popular nightclub performer.

May Fourteenth and Fifteenth 1970 @ Jackson State

More than 450 bullets were fired by police at a group of black students.

(LOS ANGELES) - In looking back at the violence that has plagued America's college campuses over the years, we see a phenomenon that has never gone away, only changed faces.

We see a problem that was based in rebellion in the 1960's and 1970's, when the United States was engaged in a bitter, seemingly endless war.

Lawrence Taylor, Dwight Gooden, Darrel Strawberry, Mike Tyson

These guys are well known because they are the name in lights,
But, how many more are the unknown walking streets at night?

(LOS ANGELES) - What makes people who have it all, risk throwing it all away?

It is a sad fact in America that many top paid athletes put it all on the line; they are the same people our children often idolize, it can be a dilemma.

2nd Lieutenant Emily J.T. Perez (In Memorial)

A tribute to the first black female West Point grad killed in Iraq.

(LOS ANGELES) - 2nd Lt. Emily J.T. Perez, age 23, deployed to Iraq in December as a Medical Service Corps officer. The young officer was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded near her Humvee during combat operations in Al Kifl, near Najaf.

Poetry: On the Death of a Camel

Story of a young soldier in the days of old, and his reliance on a beast that saves his life, giving its own in the process.

(KHARTOUM, Sudan) - Our decision to begin running poetry in a news context at Salem-News.com is already being met by surprising success.

This piece takes us back to another time when western forces were doing things very similar to what they are doing today; in terms of occupying far-off foreign lands in places like the MidEast and Africa.

A Poem: Colonel James Sabow, USMC (In Memorial)

Salem-News.com is honored to bring you this tribute by Luke Easter to a man who hasn't been forgotten for a single hour of the nineteen long years since the Marine Corps turned on him.

(LOS ANGELES) - The tragic story of Marine Colonel James Sabow involves infuriating tragedy, silent yet overwhelming evidence, and immense, growing dedication. His death 19 years ago ridiculously deemed a suicide, was a Murder.

His brother is a physician; Dr. David Sabow knew almost from the beginning that something was terribly wrong with the investigation.

Poetry: Iraq & Afghanistan

Taking a moment to observe the sacrifice; Foreword by Tim King.

(LOS ANGELES) - It is so easy for Americans to be supportive of the wars overseas, but understanding what they support is a different thing altogether. There are the politics, but let's put that aside.

The lives of combat forces are hard, very hard. There is the fear, there is the anticipation, the heat, the cold, the fatigue, the marginal food, the attitudes, the endlessly competitive spirit of competition, the list goes on and on.