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A group of African pygmies have left their home in the rainforest for the first time to stage a British concert tour aimed at highlighting the destruction of their way of life....

Indigenous Canadians occupying a construction site on land they claim as their own have rebuffed an overnight police attempt to force them out....

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr Speak on Black-Brown Unity...

In the aftermath of McKinney’s run-in with a Capitol Hill police officer, we have witnessed an orgy of unadulterated defamation that is actually directed at Black women in general. ...So virulent and shameless have been the attacks on McKinney – spewing caricatures of the six-term lawmaker that reflect whites’ own hallucinatory visions of Black people – it leads us to conclude that racists are conducting a kind of ritual, an exorcism to cast the “militant Black” out of the national polity, on...

African-Americans have a number of individuals who are willing to serve as mind doubles. Some are supported by right wing think tanks... Michelle McQueen Martin, who was assigned to beat up on Ms. Mckinney by the producers of" Nightline," spent half the interview on Ms. McKinney's hair even though Ms. McKinney has been outspoken on a number of serious issues. Can you imagine Ms. Martin conducting an interview with Trent Lott, the last person on the planet to use Wild Root Cream Oil,...

'Let's get her [Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney] for being too outspoken, bringing up the wrong issue at the wrong time, failing to get with the program, becoming a distraction', leaving House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi beside herself with rage. ...The leaders of her own party turn their backs while she endures the most vicious racial stereotyping I've seen, since the last time I looked at that old KKK rag called the "Thunderbolt" when a fellow college student stuck a copy in my fa...

Communities in Milwaukee are continuing to voice outrage over an all-white jury's decision to acquit three white police officers charged with brutally beating an African-American man. We go to Milwaukee to speak with the victim's aunt and his attorney about the stunning verdict....

On March 14, 2006, a report on anti-Semitism in Sweden was published with sensation findings. It claimed that a significant proportion of the Swedish public harbor "anti-Semitic views." As one could expect, this finding caught the attention of the Jewish world. The Israeli daily Ha'aretz warned, "41 percent of Swedes are prejudiced against Jews."...

When hip hop artist Kayne West said "George Bush doesn't care about black people," NBC cameras cut away. "They've given them permission to go down and shoot us," West said. In America, telling simple and obvious truths is going too far. Censors for NBC switched to a comic....

The US government tried Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash the ranking woman of the American Indian Movement. Arlo was found guilty of aiding and abetting a murder. No evidence was presented a gainst Arlo. Testimony was hearsay and about the American Indian Movement, not Arlo. The trial was the mop up of a war game against the American Indian Movement. It is called cointelpro....