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01 April 2000
The rise and fall timeline
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Free Press Staff
1980 – Public, educational and governmental access channels begin programming on Columbus’ cable systems.

1984 – Public access becomes a separate entity; a non-profit organization, Columbus Community Cable Access, Inc. (CCCA...
01 April 2000
The battle over the consent decree -- and what’s really at stake
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Bob Fitrakis
“Yeah, they got us listed as subversive. We expect a police helicopter to follow the march,” James Moss, President of Police Officers for Equal Rights (POER) assured me as we lined up to march to the Stand Up For Justice Rally. At first I...
01 April 2000
Words, truth and the Confederate flag
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Alice Bernstein
As an American and a person passionately against racism, I say it is wrong for the battle flag of the Confederacy to be flown over the South Carolina statehouse building or any other. I am proud to agree with the 50,000 people who...
02 February 2000
Halt the machinery of death
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Dr. Manning Marable
The cruelest example of human rights violations in the United States today is the death penalty. Everyone knows that the death penalty is not now, nor has it ever been, a deterrent to violent crime. Social scientists for decades have long...
01 February 2000
White supremacy in Dixie
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Dr. Manning Marable
How far has America actually progressed toward more constructive race relations? Judging by some recent events, not much.

During this year's legal holiday marking the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I was invited to speak at...

04 January 2000
Black Radio Entertainers
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Thomas Fleming
Jazz owes a lot of its popularity to the phonograph, going back to the early days, when Thomas Edison invented the musical box that brought jazz to people who lived outside of the areas where jazz musicians played. Through phonograph...

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