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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Corporate Media Is Shamelessly Pretending Racism Died When Obama Got Elected

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

FAIR - By Janine Jackson - Feb. 28 (Advocacy) - For those who don’t see racial inequity playing out every day in disparate joblessness, incarceration or mortality rates, the presence of a brown-skinned man in the White House means there’s no more structural work to be done; those struggling from now on have no excuse.

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Lifting Every Voice

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By James A. Forbes - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - This Black History Month, as our nation's first African American President served his first full month in office, has been like no other. Our nation's ear has been attuned, in a new and joyful way, to the "harmonies of liberty" as we move forward, freed from the worst limitations of racism and embracing the bright promise of interracial, interfaith community that transcends the lines that previously divided us.

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Approaching the Whites-Only Bench

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - For state court watchers, last month provided a rare and historic moment to savor: A black governor was tasked with replacing the most powerful judge in the state, who happened to be a woman. Another small chance to make history, perhaps?

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