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Fight Racism & Censorship at New School New School Administrators are targeting a graduate student because she organized an all-black panel to speak on topics they consider "controversial."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 8:01am PST
A Minority Journalist Covers 'War in the Suburbs' of France "After the fires, I really reflected, " Karim says. "There is a real problem in France, but we don't talk about it, we hide it."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 9:38am PST
CDC: AIDS the Leading Cause of Death Among African American Women Aged 25-44 According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 68% of women who contract AIDS are black. The CDC also reported AIDS was a leading cause of death among black women ages 25 to 44. We speak with the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:09am PST
KAMEHAMEHA RETURNS TO RECLAIM HAWAIIAN ISLAND KINGDOM IN SPECIAL CORONATION The royal lineages of King Kamehameha, the first Hawaiian monarch; High Chief Kamehameha Nui of Maui Island; and Queen Liliu'okalani, the last reigning Hawaiian Monarch are reaching out from the past to re-establish the Hawaiian Island Kingdom to it's former glory. All of these lineages, together with those of several chiefly lines connected to all of the Hawaiian Islands, converge in the genealogy of Edmund Keli'i Silva, Jr., as confirmed by the House of Nobles of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. A...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 10:54pm PST
50th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was arrested December 1st, 1955, for violating segregation laws when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. The move sparked a one-year boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. We hear some of the voices of people who were outside Parks' memorial in Washington DC last month....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:29pm PST
Dec 1 Rosa Parks Nationwide Day of Absence! How do we remember Rosa Parks?
By making The 50th Anniversary Of Rosa Parks' Arrest, December 1, a Nationwide Day of Absence and Protest Against Poverty, Racism & War....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 12:04pm PST
Obituary: The Late (not-so-Great) King Sugar The decomposing corpse of the West Indian sugar plantation system was officially certified dead on Thursday, half a century after it had ceased to show signs of life....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:42am PST
France: Gaullist officials stoke up racism to justify state of emergency Ministers and deputies of the ruling Gaullist party, the UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), have issued statements calculated to whip up anti-immigrant and racist sentiment in order to justify the government’s unprecedented imposition of a three-month state of emergency....
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:53am PST
Blacks in Congress Urge FEMA to Extend Deadline for Evacuees in Hotels Black congressional leaders Wednesday urged federal officials to extend the December 1 deadline to evict 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees -- many of whom are black -- who were told to pack up and vacate government-subsidized hotels within the next 15 days....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 11:22pm PST
The economic realities of racism People watching the rioting in France should take note that all is not equal in America either. The economic plight of Africans and Arabs in France is indicative of the results of the ways a small minority of whites can continue to control and dispense the wealth of the planet. Unless economic accommodations are made toward inclusion across racial lines, France’s violence could spread to other industrialized countries....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 7:06am PST
France: racism, poverty lead to violence Fires burned across France this week as young people from immigrant families, mainly from North and West Africa, protested life on society’s working-class margins....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:36pm PST
France in Flames Unfortunately, the lessons of the past, as with the race riots years ago in the UK, have not been learned. The politics of nuance extends far beyond simply immigrant issues and race relations....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 11:00am PST
Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks became a symbol of the mass movement against racism that eventually forced the dismantling of the system of official segregation in the American South. Her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggered a year-long bus boycott, an event that is generally seen as the beginning of a decade-long battle against segregation that mobilized millions and won the support of workers all ov...
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:23am PST
The Left's Response to the French Riots Why The Left has been so slow to respond to the French riots....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 9:00pm PST
Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks On Monday, thousands of mourners filled the Metropolitian AME church in Washington for a memorial service for the late Rosa Parks, who died last week at the age of 92. Over the past two days, more than 40,000 people filed past her casket in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Monday where her body had lain in honor. She was the first civilian and only second woman or African-American to receive such an honor. Speakers at Monday's memorial included Oprah Winfrey, actress Cicely Tyson, NAACP chair Julian ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:47pm PST
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Lies in Honor in Capitol Rotunda The body of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was flown to Washingon DC Sunday night to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. She is the first woman and second African American to lie in state. We speak with the Rev. Joseph and author Diane McWhorter and we go back to 1956 to air a rare interview with Parks aired on Pacifica Radio's KPFA....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:36am PST
Why There Are No Asians On TV “He also spend thousand of thousand dollar of your hard earned money to go to college and grad school, but not to be doctor or lawyer or engineer or doctor or lawyer, instead, he spend all your American money to be…to be….Hey, what you do anyway?”
-- From Tim Huang’s musical “AND THE EARTH MOVED”...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:41pm PDT
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:52am PDT
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