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Sylvester Brown, jr.
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I am an award-winning journalist, former publisher of Take Five Magazine and former metro columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. After leaving the Post in 2009, I began working as a researcher, consultant and contributor with SmileyBooks. In 2011, I established When we Dream Together, a nonprofit aimed at revitalizing long-ignored urban areas. I write on topics of politics, race military spending, peace and urban revitalization
About Sylvester
Occupation:
Writer and nonprofit director, When We Dream Together, Inc.
Interests:
Race, politics, urban renewal, military spending,
Expertise:
jounalism, writing coach, ghost writer, http://blogs.blackvoices.com/, content provider,
Affiliations:
The Peace Economy Project, When We Dream Together, Inc.
Background
Journalism:
5-9 years
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Sylvester reviewed this story - Apr 18, 2012
It's good journalism because it takes on a less-talked about subject and confronts a reality of our modern times. It effectively explains why we elect politicians who lie to us and let us down. In this hurly-burly, new-in-60 seconds-or-less society, Americans simply don't have time for facts.
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Sylvester reviewed this story - Apr 17, 2012
Yes. It underscores the dangerous direction the country is headed toward that the Supreme Court validated with its backwards Citizen United Ruling. When the rich and conservative can buy elections and now control independent think tanks, true democracy is at stake. I completely agree with the chairman of the Cato board's comment: "This is an effort by the Kochs to turn the Cato Institute into some sort of auxiliary for the G.O.P."
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