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Washington -- NAACP members and conventioneers last week marched to the U.S. Capitol to show support for extending the Voting Rights Reauthorization Act of 2006. The Senate passed the legislation by a unanimous vote of 98-0. Seven days earlier, the House of Representatives also voted to extend the Act by a 390-33 margin....
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 6:23pm PDT
From mass targeting of mobile phones with voice and text messages to old-fashioned radio broadcasts warning of imminent attacks, Israel is deploying a range of old and new technologies in Lebanon as part of the psychological operations ("psyops") campaign supplementing its military attacks....
Posted: Sun, Jul 30, 2006 3:16pm PDT
If we look at the world through the eyes of a nouveau-imperialist, few things are more certain than that humanitarian intervention is the special and last prerogative of the white race (known in polite circles as The West). When the Americans, Canadians, British, French, Germans, Norwegians, Danes, Belgians, Spanish and Dutch go into Afghanistan(*), we can rest assured that the few dark faces will not spoil the party: the commanders, the decision-makers will be white, as will the the bulk of ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 29, 2006 9:31am PDT
On July 12th, the Hazleton, Pennsylvania City Council voted to approve an Illegal Immigration Relief Act, creating one of the strictest anti-immigrant laws in the United States. This Relief Act will impose severe penalties on landlords who rent space to illegal immigrants, suspend the licenses of businesses that employ them and declared English the city’s official language....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 5:24pm PDT
Did I call this one, or did I call this one?
Several BlackAmericaWeb.com columns ago, I predicted that, sooner rather than later, a man either not white or not rich or not white AND not rich would be falsely accused of rape. I further predicted that the gaggle of conservative pundits and commentators — in print and broadcast media — who have defended the three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a black stripper would not say one word in that man’s defense....
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 7:55pm PDT
I think that Bill underestimates the power of Israel *over* the US (how many other countries can murder UN workers multiple times, for example, with no consequence?), but nonetheless, he is correct in his position that the anti-semitic stuff is a poison for 9/11 truth to emerge and easily discredits us all. Those whose exclusive focus is on Israel will go wild at Bill's position that Israel didn't have control over 9/11, but in the end, we need to put our own country on the stand first, no m...
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 1:37pm PDT
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Numerous U.S. groups, intellectuals, politicians and media outlets are mobilizing in the United States to back Israel in its ongoing assault on neighboring Lebanon with one main idea to promote -- that Israel is always the victim....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 5:37pm PDT
Black History is an ongoing journey to uncover hidden reality, Khubaka
Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr speaks to a world in turmoil...
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 11:55pm PDT
Washington, DC | July 24, 2006 | Today, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld failed to fulfill their constitutional and professional obligations and protect US citizens in a crisis or time of war....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 6:09pm PDT
Alan "Torture is OK" Dershowitz is annoyed that the Israelis have been accused of killing innocent civilians. He is now arguing that there are degrees of "civilianity." He wonders how many innocent civilians killed by Israel in Lebanon would still be innocent if we could make finer distinctions....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 6:44am PDT
In the Canadian media, Israel is provoked, and then responds. For the military attacks on the Gaza Strip in late June and early July, we are told that the provocation was the June 25 operation by Palestinian resistance fighters against a military outpost near Gaza, and specifically the capture of an Israeli tank gunner....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 9:19pm PDT
The ugly and racist realities of Israeli society and life under Israeli occupation are rarely discussed....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 10:21am PDT
WASHINGTON — As 3,000 NAACP convention-goers applauded, Julian Bond, the chair of the nation’s largest civil rights group, accused the Republican ultra-right of scheming to block or suppress Black and other minority votes in this year’s midterm election....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:03pm PDT
We need more people, both active ARA members and others, to come down to Jackson to support us in our fight to protect the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. We need your help. Please contact Asheville ARA and come get in the streets with us!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 1:49pm PDT
"The Agriculture Capitol of the World" does not provide for local residents of African descent. California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association seeks a collaborative solution to the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill. Urban Agricultural experts nationwide must work together to feed, cloth, shelter and educate our 'at risk' communities....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 1:27pm PDT
The renewal of key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act was named in honor of three Black women. The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives 390-33 last week and is expected to pass the Senate before the August recess. Even though the legislation is named after three Black heroines, Black women have yet to be elected president of either the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Souther...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:20pm PDT
WASHINGTON (NNPA) -- A weak U.S. economy and a low unemployment rate over the last couple of years has started to erode the progress Black Americans have gained in income, and has further widened the income gap between Blacks and Whites, says a new report from a Washington, D.C. think tank....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 6:17am PDT
I. Call to action and details for August 14-17 2006
II. Background on Herman Wallace's hearing
III. Background on the cases of the Angola 3
Please post far and wide....
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 3:22pm PDT
Any reasonable, relatively intelligent person would not be surprised to hear that health disparities exist, especially along racial and/or ethnic lines. Consider these current health statistics:...
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 11:34am PDT
A collection of Orientalist imagery reflecting an American fantasy of the exotic and the erotic is about to debut as an on-line data base....
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 11:34am PDT