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Fact File on Reaction to Danish Caricatures It is being alleged in some quarters that the controversy over the Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is somehow artificial or whipped up months later by the Saudis. This is not true. The controversy began in Denmark itself among the 180,000 Danish Muslims. It was taken up by the ambassadors of Muslim states in Copenhagen. Then the Egyptian foreign minister began making a big deal of it, as did Islamist parties in Turkey and Pakistan. The crisis has unfolded along precisely the sort o...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 7:13am PST
Darfur: New Attacks in Chad Documented
(New York, February 5, 2005)—Militias based in Darfur are launching cross-border raids on villages in Chad on an almost daily basis, killing civilians, burning villages, and stealing cattle in a pattern of attacks that show signs of ethnic bias, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 7:06am PST
The Legacy of Coretta Scott King When I first heard the news about the death of Coretta Scott King I was at once both shocked and saddened. Although Mrs. King belonged to her children and cousins and nieces and nephews, she also belonged to us--the American people and the family of black people all over the world.K...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 7:48am PST
Coretta Scott King was More Than Just Dr. King's Wife She Helped to Transform America and Expose the FBI's Role in the Harassment of Civil Rights Leaders...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 7:47am PST
Is the Anti-War Movement a Dying Shark? There has been much discussion, mostly in the alternative media, about the lack of participation of blacks and other minorities in the current anti-war protests....
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:37am PST
Civil Rights Icon Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006 The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Joseph Lowery and Herb Boyd reflect on the legacy of freedom fighter Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:24am PST
Harry Belafonte on Bush, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina ... We spend the hour with the legendary musician, actor and humanitarian, Harry Belafonte. He joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about why he recently called President Bush "the world's greatest terrorist;" racism and Hurricane Katrina; Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and wars of imperialism and resistance....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 11:14am PST
An AIM Activist's View of Jack Abramoff Historically racism has characterized and justified unscrupulous behavior toward Native Americans. This attitude has kept us in poverty and ill health since the inception of the reservation system....
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 10:52am PST
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
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