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"This is the beginning of a new day! In my household [Fidel] is known as the ultimate survivor." Fidel himself, in a letter in the state-run Granma newspaper, saluted "this legislative group. The aura of Martin Luther King is accompanying them." To others of us who honor King, there is a barely surviving black Cuban disciple of King (and Mohandas Gandhi) whom the caucus visitors did not meet because he has been in a Castro brothers' cage for many years and was off-limits to them. He is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, and he is among those designated by Amnesty International...

Blacks of a Lesser GodBy Myles KantorFrontPageMagazine.com | April 18, 2003 “It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money,” the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass said in the winter of 1860.The occasion was a speech in Boston’s Music Hall.  A mob had broken up an anti-slavery meeting there a week before, and Douglass rose in defense of free speech:"No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the...