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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 ...

Karen Pickett was a guest on the KMUD Environment Show tonight talking about the great Green Scare, the corporate driven FBI and federal grand jury crackdown on environmental radicals, and branding them as terrorists....

National Congressional Call-in Day: Stop the Silence -- Force Congress to Act on Iraq Wednesday, April 5 Call your Representative...

In a thoroughly cowardly and unprincipled decision, the United States Supreme Court denied the latest petition by José Padilla, the US citizen who was held without charges or a hearing for 42 months—the first 22 of which were incommunicado, without access to family or lawyers—in a Navy brig....

Although a jury ruled Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty on Monday, Rowley says administration officials may stop using criminal courts for future cases. “If you don’t deal with them in the criminal court then you are allowed to go around all criminal procedure and the Constitution,” she said....

On Capitol Hill, heated debate continues over immigration reform. We speak with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D - TX) who has submitted an immigration bill in Congress that would allow for legal permanent residency for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for the past five years, would double the cap for family visas and would increase the number of work visas....

Martin Luther King Jr.'s empathy and support for Latino immigrants' fight for civil rights can be revived, the writer says. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press)....

We're in an important week of the struggle for immigrant justice on the federal level. Day Labor Centers like ours are still under attack. Please click on the link below to send messages to members of congress....

Leaders with many Bay Area day laborer centers say they will refuse to comply if Congress approves a bill requiring those centers to check employees’ eligibility to work in the United States....

The Senate is studying a proposal to build a double set of steel walls with floodlights and surveillance cameras along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. New America Media editor Sandip Roy says walls have a tricky way of linking opposed sides together. Roy is host of "UpFront, a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....