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Washington Pulse -- White House 'Hate Speech' Takes on Life of Its Own Hate speech from the White House's war on terror has introduced a whole new vocabulary into public discourse. The results are showing up not just in furor over the Dubai port deal, but in ugly grass-roots campaigns and polls tracking anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiment. A senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Mark Lloyd teaches public policy at Georgetown University and is an award-winning broadcast journalist. He writes a monthly column for New America Media called "Washington...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:51pm PST
Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad: Gitmo on the Mississippi Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:52am PST
Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery If the past few weeks have demonstrated anything, it is the frequency with which allegations of anti-semitism surface in modern political debate. Ken Livingstone, the Church of England and The Guardian (over articles comparing Israel and apartheid) are the most recent to find themselves in the firing line. This is the backdrop against which an unofficial parliamentary inquiry on anti-semitism under former Foreign Office minister Denis McShane concludes its hearings in Westminster today....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:26pm PST
Oscar Winning Hip Hop Song Promotes 'Culture of Death' The Oscar winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" promotes the culture of death, so writes NAM contributor David Muhammad. Muhammad is the Executive Director of The Mentoring Center in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
Best Picture is a 'Crash' Course in Racial Perceptions Want to know what's really behind Americans' racial biases? See the Oscars' Best Picture winner "Crash," writes regular NAM contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
Michael Eric Dyson on Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster As President Bush prepares to pay a visit to the Gulf Coast six months after Hurricane Katrina hit, we speak with University of Pennsylvania professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson about his new book "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:34am PST
'State of the Black Union' Ignores Critical Issues Television and radio commentator Tavis Smiley's forum must address key wedge issues used to separate black America, the writer says. New America Media contributor Jasmyne Cannick (www.jasmynecannick.com) is a political and social commentator based in Los Angeles. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and founding board member of the National Black Justice Coalition....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:34pm PST
The Navajo Nation's Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:47am PST
As New Orleans Mayoral Race Looms, Displaced Residents Urged to Vote Absentee The race for the mayor’s office in storm-ravaged New Orleans may take on a different tone next month, with incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin trying to reach city voters strewn across the country while fighting a challenge from a feisty black minister, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and a host of other candidates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:40am PST
Black America's Infatuation With Butch Men Up in Heels -Images of black men dressed as women have become a popular part of black American entertainment culture. But does the success of the black actor who plays a drag role depend on that actor's real-life heterosexism?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:37am PST
Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots On Saturday, February 4, racial riots broke out in Los Angeles County jails between black and Latino inmates. The rioting continued for more than two weeks, involving thousands of prisoners at several different facilities. More than a hundred have been injured, many critically, and two inmates are dead....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:06am PST
BTL:In Response to Darfur Genocide, Campus Divestment Campaign Targets Sudan Interview with Nick Robinson, a Yale law student and director of Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:56am PST
Right-wing posturing from Congress on Arab firm’s role at US ports Congressional leaders of both parties are engaged in a cynical publicity stunt in their criticism of the Bush administration for approving the takeover of commercial operations at six Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports by a port management company owned by the government of Dubai, a Persian Gulf sheikdom that is part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:23am PST
Yuri Kochiyama Remembers Her Life: From Internment Camps in the U.S. to the Assassination Longtime activist Yuri Kochiyama talks about the assassination of Malcolm X, who she was with 41 years ago as he lay dying, and her own life championing civil rights. Kochiyama’s story begins with World War II, when she and her family were held in an internment camp along with more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:26am PST
Police Brutality Strikes Filipino Youth in Jersey City Jersey City, NJ-- Filipino groups are outraged over what many are calling "a blatant act of police brutality, racial discrimination, and anti-immigrant sentiment" on the part of two Jersey City police officers who arrested and detained a young Filipino who was about to file a complaint against an erring cab driver.
Alan James Alda, 25, a Jersey City warehouse worker originally from Manila, was startled when police suddenly "arrested and threw him into a detention cell" ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:46am PST
URGENT- ACT NOW 4 BIG MOUNTAIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO FAMILIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Something critical is about to happen concerning the traditional communities on Big Mountain & surrounding areas. Please take a moment to read and fax this letter today. It will automatically be sent to the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, Senate & Congress. Link supplied below....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:19pm PST
URGENT! TAKE ACTION FOR BIG MOUNTAIN TODAY STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO
COMMUNITIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
Are New Orleans Evacuees Being Denied the Right to Vote? We look at how Hurricane Katrina is affecting the political power of New Orleans residents. Upcoming local elections will include a race for mayor with only one black candidate – incumbent Ray Nagin. Lawyers have filed a lawsuit alleging Louisiana’s emergency election plan will disenfranchise thousands of displaced voters, the majority of whom are African-American....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:52am PST
The Cartoons and the Neocon: Daniel Pipes and the Danish Editor Let me tell you a few things about blasphemy. Been there, done it. Got expelled from high school for it.
That was a few decades ago, and for those seeking titillation, I’ll give you the details at the end of this screed. First I have to tell you about a massive propaganda coup. You’ve been had by some of the most bigoted people in the world -- and I’m not talking about Muslim fundamentalists....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:14am PST
"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
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