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Black America's Gay Problem -- Can Attitudes Change in the Black Church? With the Medicare nightmare, Katrina aftermath and the war in Iraq hitting black America hard, can black church leaders resist bullying gays and get their priorities straight? PNS contributor Jasmyne Cannick says the tide may be turning toward acceptance....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 5:21pm PST
Foro Digest: Tired of the White Left NAM contributor Roberto Lovato is attending the World Social Forum in Caracas, where more than 60,000 people, half of them from outside Venezuela, have gathered for the annual event. His impressions will be posted throughout the week....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:09pm PST
LOUISIANA’S COASTAL TRIBES APPEAL FOR HELP 
Four of Louisiana’s coastal Native American tribes issued an urgent appeal for support in the aftermath of Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. Despite the buzz of recovery activity in New Orleans and on other parts of the Gulf coast, tribal leaders say they have been forgotten and their people continue to suffer....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:32pm PST
Segregation Report Sheds Light on Challenges in Diversifying U.S. Schools Schools in the Northeast and West continue to be more segregated than those in the South, with California and New York maintaining schools that are the most segregated, according to a recent report from the Harvard University Civil Rights Project....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:16pm PST
India: victims of Gujarat pogrom found in mass grave Some of the many missing victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 were uncovered in a mass grave late last month in the village of Pandharwada. Relatives of the victims dug up the remains of about 20 bodies that had been dumped and buried in an unmarked pit....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:58pm PST
Reclaiming King Day ... from the NAACP On January 13th I filed a request with the SC Budget and Control Board for use of the north side of the State House grounds on Monday January 15, 2007. The north side is where the Confederate flag flies. I was informed by officials at the agency that no application or written request had been made for the space at the time of my request....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:39pm PST
Jesse, King and the Business of Black Leadership Unfair to Jesse Jackson or not, the claim in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that King saw Jackson as an opportunist resonates because of the flashy leadership style and middle-class myopia of today's civil rights leaders....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:35pm PST
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and some thoughts It is a fact that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. contributed a lot to Civil Rights and allowed millions of people from all races in America and elsewhere to get the best opportunities. Today, years after his death we still have 6 States that have not joined with the Nation to accept Dr. Martin Luther's Day as a National Holiday. And while the playing field has been some what been leveled - we still see racists and their ugly philosophy reign in some quarters....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:29am PST
Meet the Son of Jim Crow: MLK Day Below the Mason-Dixon Line By RON JACOBS...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:27am PST
Dreams and Nightmares: How Would Martin Luther King Judge America? In Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speech, he had a dream.
But in another of King's important addresses, he faced the depth of our nightmare.
We all know the famous words -- "I have a dream" -- delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:44am PST
Racial Profiling in Public Schools: Black Students Under Fire By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:41am PST
From the Ground Up: Race and the Left Response to Katrina “For a lot of people, people of color from New Orleans and the south, we’re all trying to put our lives together. If we had the means, if we had the same privilege, we would be here too, we would be organizing and fighting for our community. It’s important for people to realize the privilege they have and others don’t have.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:41am PST
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Day. He was born in 1929. Last week, he would have turned 77 years old. In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter. After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintaine...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:07am PST
Boycott student loans from 'slavery banks'! Since JP Morgan Chase refuses to do the decent thing - settle a slavery restitution case pending in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago - students, hip hop artists, church leaders, elected officials and reparationists are trying to reach the corporation through the only thing it seems to value: its bottom line....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
'Fire on the Bayou': African American leaders converge on New Orleans African American leaders from all over the United States and from as far away as Canada are meeting for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century-sponsored Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend Initiative, entitled "The Struggle Against Racism and Inequality in New Orleans: National Days of Return and Action," set for Jan. 12-14 in the beleaguered Crescent City....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:23am PST
A strategy for divestment from Sudan The plight of displaced people throughout the African Diaspora, from Bayview Hunters Point to New Orleans, was highlighted by last week's violent removal of Sudanese migrants by Egyptian police from a protest camp located in an upscale district of Cairo, Egypt, adjacent to the offices of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:19am PST
Racism and Injustice in Alabama's Courts "Poor, Young, Black and Victimized" By J.L. CHESTNUT, Jr....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 7:19am PST
Everyone Wants a Piece of Martin Luther King Jr. Left, right or center, leaders of all political persuasions have sought to profit from the storied legacy of the great civil rights leader....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:23pm PST
Gary Freeman's Struggle: A Black Radical from the 1960s Fights Extradition to the US By JOE ALLEN...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:02am PST
Restoration of Black Farmers in America Tour 2006 Black History Month 2006, World Ag Expo will showcase the world largest farm show and feature a sustained effort to disparage, discriminate and discredit Black Farmers in a strategic fashion. Under a false cloak of ‘Official U.S. government policy’ World Ag Expo officials showcase to the world unique “Historic California Grown Racism." Restoration of Black Farmers in America Tour 2006 will seek collaborative partners to change this paradigm....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 4:56pm PST
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