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The Queen's Celebration: Slavery Without Regrets Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Prime Minister Tony Blair, among a congregation of 2000 attending the memorial service at London's historic Westminster Abbey earlier this week to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, quickly glanced at their programmes....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 6:02pm PDT
The Racist War On Immigrants The war in America on Latino immigrants....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 1:37pm PDT
Prominent Latino Organizations Silent on Alberto Gonzales Alberto Gonzales is the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history and was once endorsed by many pre-eminent Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent on his recent troubles, reports NAM contributor Roberto Lovato....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:02am PDT
Plastic Surgery As Racial Surgery Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in 2005 Asian-Americans had 437,000 cosmetic surgeries, up 58 percent from 2004. NAM editor Andrew Lam, who contemplated getting double eyelid surgery, could have been part of that statistic. Lam is the author of “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:23am PDT
ISLAM-INFONET: CAIR Takes On Its Critics / CAIR-MI Strives to Bridge Cultures / CAIR-CA Ho * CAIR Takes On Its Critics (Chicago Tribune)
* CAIR-MI Strives to Bridge Cultures (Detroit Free Press)
- CAIR-MI: Islam Promotes Social Justice (Kalamazoo Gazette)
* CAIR-CT: School Project Promotes Tolerance (The Day)
- CAIR-CA Holds Citizenship Rights Forum (Sacramento Bee)
- CAIR-TX Joins Rally in Support of Immigrant Rights (DMN)
* Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by 'War on Terror' (Wash Post)
* NC: Vigil Held for Dr. Al-Arian (News & Observer)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 9:27am PDT
Support the Cucapah Struggle in Baja California In order to solve the historic problem of this continual violation of their fishing, land, cultural, economic, spiritual, and linguistic rights,...(1 minute video/commentary)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:27am PDT
Black Politicians Chicken Out on Reparations WASHINGTON -- When will black American voters figure out that they’ve been sold out by inept politicians?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:17am PDT
African Americans will bear the brunt of the collapsing subprime mortgage market Institutionalized racism could lead to the greatest plunder of African American wealth in US history...
Posted: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 10:15am PDT
Philadelphia Reparations Tribunal, Excerpts on Uhuru Radio, Sunday March 25 
Listen to testimony from Consuela Africa on the bombing and incarceration of the MOVE family. She and others testified at the Tribunal on Reparations to African People, March 17th in Philadelphia....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 7:11pm PDT
Walgreens Sued For Job Bias Against Blacks Like most customers who exited this Walgreens on the corner of Baseline and Mount Vernon in San Bernardino, Clyde James Perkins and his wife Mabel were shocked to learn that the Illinois-based national drugstore chain is accused of widespread racial bias against thousands of Black managers and pharmacists....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:48am PDT
The Smog of Race War in LA LOS ANGELES -- These days, Chris Bowers wakes up every morning to a vivid reminder that crossing borders can get you killed in South LA's Harbor Gateway area. Just outside the fence in front of his rented stucco house on Harvard Boulevard is a silver scooter, an assortment of dried flowers and a dozen candles bearing religious messages written in Spanish and English--a makeshift memorial to Cheryl Green, the 14-year-old whose murder last December by members of the 204th Street Gang sparked ac...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:09am PDT
A Disturbing Expulsion: Racism and the Cherokee Nation As President Bill Clinton and others arrived in Selma, Alabama for the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" march that prodded Congress to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Cherokee Nation chose a lower road. It voted overwhelmingly for an amendment to their constitution that revokes citizenship rights for 2,800 members because their ancestors included people of African descent....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 12:34pm PDT
National Black Agenda Online E-newsletter, Mar. 16, 2007, Atlanta - Sean Bell's Verdict Co Videos of the Week
TO KILL A BLACK MAN by Michael Moore www.michaelmoore. com
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=xeOaTpYl8mE
and more...
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 9:11am PDT
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
9th Circuit Courts Rule: No Sewage on Sacred Land (audio/mpeg 3.4MB) The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this week to stop plans by the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort to use treated waste water to make snow on a mountain sacred to Native Americans. Native American rights groups say the courts ruling is a first for recognizing Native American Religious Freedoms over government action. Environmental groups also challenged the plan citing concerns about the environmental safety of skiers and children who play in the snow....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 7:38pm PDT
What Does the NAACP Need Now? It’s being hyped as “a clash of cultures”. Bruce Gordon was unable to able to fit into the NAACP bureaucracy and now the NAACP’s opponents are labeling the situation as being: “Gordon was too new school". And, that Gordon epitomized a generational struggle within Black America over the direction of a movement still wanting to face traditional civil rights issues; as opposed to “new school” thinking of Gordon who was “pressing for service needs not being addressed for blacks”....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:43am PDT
Support needed for the Cucapá Communities in Baja California 
Local support for the Cucap Communities
Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucap have lived in the land adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucap to live in these lands. In effect in 1993 the zone was declared an ecological reserve, protected by the general law of ecological equilibrium....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 3:46pm PDT
Cherokee Nation Ousts Blacks When the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma voted overwhelmingly on March 3 to deny citizenship to the descendants of former African slaves, at least two Black journalists felt the action personally....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 9:16am PDT
Jailed Africanist Movement Leader Chernoh Bah Live on UhuruRadio.com Sunday Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss this week's arrest of the Africanist Movement Director in Sierra Leone and the ongoing struggles in Guinea-Conakry....
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 10:25am PST
Call-in campaign pushes back attacks on Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Africanist Movement 
Call-in campaign victorious in pushing back attacks on Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Africanist Movement!
The following communication comes from the office of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the African Socialist International (ASI). The African Socialist International is an international party of African revolutionaries. The ASI has as its historical mission the unification and liberation of Africa under an all-African socialist government under the leadership of the Africa...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:26pm PST
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