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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch
Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, ...via Peter Daou -
Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested. Seriously, Cambridge?
(Blog Post) Preeminent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who holds one of 20 elite professorship at Harvard University and has ...via Google News -
Steele Reaches Out to Skeptical NAACP
It was clear that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was facing a skeptical crowd even before he ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society
New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
A Mugging on Lake Street
Hate crime or boredom attack, my injuries are the same. One thing about being hated, though—you have an identity. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Racism's Hidden Toll
Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their ...Posted by J Sinclaire
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Why is it so hard to be black and green? | Sylvia Arthur
Minority groups are not so much excluded as forgotten. But activists would do well to leverage their support ...via AllTop -
Newark Mayor Corey Booker ~ Video
Great interview from more than a year ago.Posted by Battinto Batts -
Environment Justice, Blacks and the Green Movement
"Polar bears will not be the biggest victims of global warming," Ellis-Lamkins said. "People will be the biggest ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Rush Limbaugh hits racial bottom, digs
(Blog Post) But that's not why I took down the item and the link to the video. I took it down because now we have Rush Limbaugh ...via Fair Spin -
The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment ...via Huffington Post -
Rightwing Attacks Collide: 'Racist' Obama Using Health Reform for Reparations
(Blog Post) In the swirling mass of news coverage and opinion-making on the issues of the day (Gates arrest, health care ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
