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When hip hop artist Kayne West said "George Bush doesn't care about black people," NBC cameras cut away. "They've given them permission to go down and shoot us," West said. In America, telling simple and obvious truths is going too far. Censors for NBC switched to a comic....

CORNWALL, Ontario - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has taken many steps to secure the country and protect it from terrorists. Communities along both of the U.S. borders have been personally impacted by the changes, particular Native communities like Akwesasne....

On NBC's "Meet the Press" March 26 Condoleezza Rice told Tim Russert, "Saddam was not related to the events of 9/11. But if you really believe that the only thing that happened on 9/11 was people flew airplanes into buildings, I think you have a very narrow view of what we faced on 9/11. We faced the, the outcome of an ideology of hatred throughout the Middle East that had to be dealt with. Saddam Hussein was a part of that old Middle East. The new Iraq will be a part of a new ...

The Assault on Cynthia McKinney...

This week, the National Urban League released its premiere annual research publication, the State of Black America 2006 report before a packed audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. I wish I could say that the news was full of optimism and peppered with tales of economic buoyancy that lifts all boats along a rising financial tide. But such is not the case, especially for Black America. Amidst the spin of financial newsmakers and analysts, we must tell the truth. The State of ...

Summary: Following recent demonstrations in which protesters marched against proposed legislation that would criminalize undocumented workers, some in the media have criticized the demonstrators for carrying Mexican flags. But these same media figures have not complained about people waving other nations' flags, such as Irish flags at St. Patrick's Day events, Italian flags at Columbus Day events, or Israeli flags at Israel Day events....

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has complained she was the victim of racial profiling that led to a run-in with a Capitol police officer last week. Prosecutors are now reviewing whether to bring charges against her. We speak with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee about the incident and we look at when several members of the Georgia General Assembly were denied entry to Coretta Scott King's funeral in February....

Support grassroots groups lead by people of color/low income communities working on the destruction in the Gulf Coast Region....

"Walkout" - a new HBO film tells the story of the 1968 walkout by high school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions. We speak with the executive director of the film, Moctesuma Esparza. An award-winning film producer and community activist, Esparza helped organize the 1968 walkout and was arrested and jailed along with 12 others for conspiracy to disturb the peace....

As a groundswell of immigrant rights activism spreads across the country, the old-guard black civil rights movement is dragging its feet, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...