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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
Big Mountain, Black Mesa Struggle Continues/Spring Caravan from the Bay & NCoast RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new
timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on
Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal
company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to
expand its strip mining of American Indian lands.
# This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern
California and the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:27am PST
Native American Tribes Attempt to Recover After Being Defrauded of Tens of Millions by Abr Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who served as chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that investigated the scandal, and Tigua tribal governor Arturo Senclair, one of the Indian tribes defrauded by Abramoff, discuss the Native American tribes that have been embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. The tribes hired Abramoff to represent them in Washington regarding casino and gambling issues. As their lobbyist, Abramoff instructed the tribes to make political donations to cert...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:42am PST
Death to the System! Populist History & Spoken Word w/ New Orleans Kalamu ya Salaam 
New Orleans neo-griot Kalamu ya Salaam announces Listen to the People radical history project & blows the roof off NYC Bowery Poetry Club Katrina benefit with a "poem" perhaps described as "Superdome Systems of Thought - Death to the System!"
25 minute, 37 MG quicktime.mov video....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 10:50pm PST
Black Forever: Race, Class and Activism in the South By J.L. CHESTNUT, Jr....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:43am PST
World Trade ~ Global Black Farmers Need State Support Now Few new Black Farmers will be helped to join the company of the ruling elite, allowing the government and its rich allies to claim success. But millions of subsistence farmers, whose forebears had to suffer from the exploitation of apartheid, will be as condemned as ever to lives of drudgery and defeat....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 2:40pm PST
Election of Evo Morales bodes well for Africans in Bolivia and U.S. The position of the organized Afro-Bolivians on the historic election of Evo Morales is implicit in an email received on Monday from Monica Rey Guiterrez, director of the Center for Afro Bolivian Development and a very dear friend and recent house guest. “Many of us are happy. Some are worried. We await the changes,” she wrote....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 7:18am PST
Activists Vow to Continue Tookie's Legacy Community activists and supporters condemned Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger following the execution of death row inmate Stanley “Tookie” Williams but nevertheless called for calm and vowed to continue his “legacy” to end gang violence....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:16pm PST
The Boondocks is On: Pryor's Comedic Legacy Lives On Aaron McGruder’s groundbreaking and controversial animated series The Boondocks has sparked outrage from some African Americans that take issue with the show's use of the N Word. Fans of the show are drawn to the humor that was pioneered by black comics like Richard Pryor. PNS contributor Charles Jones is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia (www.youthoutlook.org) a project of Pacific News Service....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:14pm PST
Black buying blackout - Christmas 2005 Blacks urged not to spend money on Saturday, Dec. 17 and 24...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:59am PST
Arab American Group Protests Hate Messages An Arab American defense organization is challenging a new billboard campaign in New Mexico and North Carolina, which they say utilizes negative, racist images of Arabs and Arab cultural symbols....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 8:07pm PST
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