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Rush Limbaugh hits racial bottom, digs

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Crunchy Con - By Rod Dreher - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - 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 blaming Obama for black kids beating up a white kid on a school bus. This is what happens in "Obama's America," he said today on his

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A Mugging on Lake Street

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

chicagomag.com - By John Conroy - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - Hate crime or boredom attack, my injuries are the same. One thing about being hated, though—you have an identity. You’re a member of a distinct class who is important to the attacker. If you are attacked without reason, you’re nobody— you’re of no importance whatever. Mulling this over makes me question the whole notion of prosecuting hate crimes. Why is a racist thug more dangerous than the man who just feels like beating someone—anyone—up? The racist might send a message to a large population, but the nonracist sends a message to an even larger group, a message that says, “You count for nothing” and “No one is safe.”

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The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Barbara Ehrenreich, Dedrick Muhammed - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment -- or, we should say, re-impoverishment -- of African Americans as a group.

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Rightwing Attacks Collide: 'Racist' Obama Using Health Reform for Reparations

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Peter Daou - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - In the swirling mass of news coverage and opinion-making on the issues of the day (Gates arrest, health care reform, birthers, etc.) we're seeing the...

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Henry Louis Gates, Troy Anthony Davis, and the 21st Century Color Line

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - W.E.B. Du Bois' classic 1903 work "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." Du Bois helped form the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which just

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested. Seriously, Cambridge?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carolyn Kellogg - Jul. 21 (Breaking News) - Preeminent scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who holds one of 20 elite professorship at Harvard University and has hosted several PBS television programs was arrested in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday at his home. According to an Associated Press report,

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Too Diverse to Fail

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Michael C. Moynihan - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - According to a report in The Boston Globe, a small-circulation, Boston-based newspaper focusing on that city's black community "plans to accept a $200,000 loan from the city to stay afloat, despite criticism that the money could compromise its impartiality during an election year." The Bay State Banner, which ceased publication last month because of declining ad revenues, is the city's only black-owned newspaper. The news comes a week after a group of minority-owned broadcasters petitioned Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for federal aid, warning that "Minority-owned broadcasters are close to becoming an extinct species."

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Steele Reaches Out to Skeptical NAACP

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Brian Montopoli - Jul. 15 (News Report) - It was clear that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was facing a skeptical crowd even before he stepped onstage to address the NAACP's 100th anniversary convention Tuesday.

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Obama: Slavery's past should be taught He says past cruelty should be connected to current events

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jul. 14 (News Report) - President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region

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Reforms should improve health care for blacks

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tri State Defender - By George E. Hardin - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - The contentious debate over heath care has huge implications for African Americans. The Senate health committee this month is tackling the issue in response to President Barack Obama’s proposals. The aim is better care at more reasonable rates, especially for the 46 million citizens who are uninsured. Blacks in general stand to benefit. The National Institutes of Health reported in March that “As many as 1 in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before the age of 50, 20 times the rate of whites in this age group.” Its study showed that “heart failure developed in black participants at an average age of 39, often preceded by risk factors such as high blood pressure.” “Black women have almost twice the rate of advanced breast cancer as white women do, largely because the disease is often diagnosed after it has already progressed,” according to a May report from the Division of Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine. The report also said some black women in the study refused radiation treatment and chemotherapy treatment. Social and cultural reasons were given as factors. Poverty also was an issue because some low-income women “don’t have the job security that some other people have. If they are absent from their job for days in a row, they’re going to lose their job.” Dr. Gretchen Kimmick, an associate professor of oncology at Duke University Medical Center, said, “Some of the women we take care of think God is going to take care of them, so they don’t pursue their treatment.” Some women were said to be embarrassed because they could not afford treatment.

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Senate Apologizes For Slavery

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jun. 19 (News Report) - The U.S. Senate apologized Thursday for slavery and for the segregationist Jim Crow laws, 144 years after the Civil War and 45 years after passing the Civil Rights Act.

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Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jun. 16 (News Report) - Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

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Racism's Hidden Toll

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Ryan Blitstein - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes.

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Another 'black man did it' hoax sparks outrage

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jesse Washington - Jun. 02 (News Report) - It's an old lie, claiming that The Black Man Did It. But it was trotted out again last week when a white mother from suburban Philadelphia said two black men snatched her and her 9-year-old daughter from their SUV and abducted them in the trunk of a black Cadillac.

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Newark Mayor Corey Booker ~ Video

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bill Moyers Journal - May. 31 (Interview) - Great interview from more than a year ago.

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A Hundred Anxious Days

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eli Saslow - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - In a South Carolina Town Where the Downturn Has Deepened Since the Inauguration, Two Obama Supporters Have Struggled, Going From ’Fired Up’ to Tired Out

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Environment Justice, Blacks and the Green Movement

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Kai Wright - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - "Polar bears will not be the biggest victims of global warming," Ellis-Lamkins said. "People will be the biggest victims—ourselves, our children and grandchildren. And as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, it will be poor people and people of color who are hit hardest."

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Film Spotlights Need for Reform in War on Drugs

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Lewis Beale - Apr. 17 (Special Report) - the Byrne grant program is designed to help states and local jurisdictions fight drugs and the violent crime associated with drug trafficking. The program provides federal money in 29 specific "purpose areas," including crime-victim assistance and alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, but most of the grants are intended for police activity. And a good deal of the money disbursed is predicated on the number, not the quality, of drug arrests.

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These Streets, No Game. Can't Ball, Don't Play...

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Ta-Nehisi Coates - Apr. 02 (Comment) - I think Mos Def was offering up that corner consciousness, in which brothers preach nihilism under the cover of an alleged "Knowledge of Self" or "Thinking for oneself." I think Christopher Hitchens, rightfully, sonned him. As a Mos Def fan, and member of the hip-hop generation (whatever that means) I felt embarrassed. That's probably not my right, but I felt that way. Here's where it gets really weird, I held one person responsible for the whole debacle--Cornel West.

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Oakland mourns

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Gary Kamiya - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - The four officers' murders stunned and saddened the broad Bay Area community, but there had been a few discordant notes. There's long been tension between the Oakland Police and the city's low-income black community, as in most other big cities. It was inflamed most recently by the New Year's Day killing of unarmed Oakland resident Oscar Grant, who was shot by BART police, not Oakland cops. Despite this tense background, most Oakland residents of every race and class were horrified by the killings, but there were a few examples of callousness and cruelty. The Associated Press reported that about 20 residents taunted police when they came to retrieve their fallen comrades in East Oakland on Saturday. The irrelevant resistance group Uhuru House even held a poorly attended rally Wednesday to defend Lovelle Mixon and criticize the police who killed him.

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DC's rising AIDS rate 'worse than West Africa'

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Robert Bazell - Mar. 16 (News Report) - A new report issued by the Department of Health Monday on Washington, D.C.'s AIDS epidemic has set off alarm signals in the nation's capital.

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Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Howard Witt - Mar. 10 (Special Report) - Suit says cops force motorists, largely black, to forfeit cash and cars—or be charged with trumped-up crimes

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So, Where are the New Republicans?

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Culture11 - By Dennis Sanders - Mar. 10 (Comment) - Ross Douthat has a good post today about Obama and the Center-Left. He notes that conservatives were happy with some of the Clintonite picks he made in the cabinet. However, as policy started coming out, those same conservatives (myself included) were not as happy.

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Decades of Disparity: New Study Underscores Severity of Racial Bias in Drug-Related Law Enforcement

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Jamie Fellner, Deborah Small - Mar. 03 (News Report) - A new study underscores the severity of racial bias in drug-related law enforcement. According to Human Rights Watch, African Americans were arrested as much as five-and-a-half times as whites on drug charges every year for the past three decades. The trend dates back to 1980, the earliest date with complete data.

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Obama Pressured by Israel Lobby to Boycott World Conference Against Racism

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Roberto Lovato - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - Obama's boycott reflects his choice to pursue the more dangerous path to dealing with race, racism and discrimination: symbolism at the expense of real changes to very devastating policies.

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