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Friday, December 7, 2007 :James Baldwin, the legendary African-American writer and civil rights activist, died 20 years ago this week. This Sunday in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture is holding a 20th Anniversary commemoration. We take a look at Baldwin's life and his work with his sister-in-law, Carole Weinstein and we hear Baldwin in his own words. We also hear Tony-award-nominated actor Calvin Levels performing a part of his acclaimed one-man show, "James Baldwin ...

During the Congressional Black Caucus Week September 2007 an award went to the only member of the House Ag Committee and it was based upon performance. The 2007 Farm Bill will go back to the House of Representatives to make sure that the interests of Black Famers is finally taken into consideration. Black Agribusiness is the way forward....

I wanted to go to school but we needed to pay for food, for clothes. My mother did not have any education. My father died when he was very young. So I needed to take care of myself and there was no money for school.Silvana, a Romani woman talking to Amnesty InternationalRomani women in Macedonia suffer double discrimination -- on the grounds of their gender and their ethnicity, according to Amnesty International....

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 :New FBI statistics suggest anti-Latino hate crimes have risen by almost 35 percent since 2003. In California ? the state with the largest number of Latinos -- the number of hate crimes against Latinos have almost doubled. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the violence engulfing Latinos is part of a backlash over the immigration debate in this country. We speak with Mark Potok of the SPLC....

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 :An exposé in Tehelka magazine has provided further damning proof that the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in the west Indian state of Gujarat was fomented and organized by the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government of Narendra Modi. The BJP acted in concert with a network of Hindu nationalist and fundamentalist organizations, including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which has long supplied much of the BJP’s cadre and leadership, the Vishwa...

Guess which group is more likely to be imprisoned for drugs?...

CAIRO — Distinguished Muslim-American Army sergeant Hicham Benkabbou will neither get the Army Achievement Medal nor the Distinguished Service Medal when he completes his current duty in Afghanistan and returns to the United States, but might rather find a deportation order awaiting him, The Guardian reported....

San Francisco is a Racist City and leading the charge in this Department - two very EVIL people - Mayor Gavin Newsom who is the puppet of the Madam of Water-Boarding - Senator Diane Feinstein. When folks, stoop so low - as to have NO mercy on innocent children - they bring upon themselves - the title - Scum Bags of the Worst Order. San Francisco has an Ordinance - it is called the Precautionary Principle - in San Francisco the authorities talk the talk but cannot and will not Walk the Walk. I...

Monday, December 3, 2007 :On November 25, the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur was again the scene of a violent clash between riot police and protestors—this time involving thousands of ethnic Indians demanding compensation for decades of discrimination. The demonstration came just two weeks after an even larger rally of opposition groups on November 10 demanding electoral reform before national elections mooted for next year....

Saturday, December 1, 2007 : Compared with the tension that exists in Muslim communities across Europe, America's Muslims are a more contented lot. A recent Pew Forum study found Europe's Muslims to be "markedly less well off than the general population, frustrated with economic opportunities and socially isolated," while most American Muslims say that "their communities are excellent or good places" to live; 71 percent say they can succeed in the United States if they work. Both income and c...